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Quick Charge Podcast: September 30, 2020

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Tesla releases new software update with 2 new small features

Tesla has started releasing a new software update with two new small features: Priority Bluetooth Device and Glovebox PIN. Today, Tesla has started pushing a new 2020.40 software update to its fleet. It includes somewhat minor but useful new features. If you have ever gotten into your Tesla and your girlfriend’s music started playing on the sound system instead of your playlist, Tesla has you…
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Could this smart electric motor change the world?

Turntide Technologies, which manufactures the Smart Motor System, “the world’s first sustainable electric motor with digital DNA,” announced a recently completed $33 million funding round with support from the Amazon Climate Pledge Fund. Amazon’s Climate Pledge…
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EGEB: Shell cuts up to 9k jobs in oil demand slump

Royal Dutch Shell will cut up to 9,000 jobs by 2022 due to the pandemic and lack of oil demand. Turntide’s Smart Motor System has the potential to reduce global electricity consumption by 25%. Sustainable technology company Furrion launches a solar cooler that also packs a charging station. Arcadia Power is committed to making clean energy work for the planet and your bank account — all…
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Tesla reduces Solar Roof price, updates website

Tesla has slightly reduced the price Solar Roof prices and updated its webpage for the product with new information. In October of last year, Tesla launched version 3 of its Solar Roof tiles, which is now also known as Solarglass, and it saw a significant price decrease…
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Indian Motorcycles unveils its first eFTR electric motorcycle, but there’s a small catch

The small catch is that the first Indian electric motorcycle is also for small riders. As in children. Indian decided to go for the pint-sized market with its first electric model. And in doing so, they’ve also revealed what they were working on earlier this summer when we stumbled upon an Indian Motorcycle trademark for an upcoming electric model. The Indian eFTR Jr is a 15 mph (25 km/h)…
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