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Tesla (TSLA) should buy commercial electric vehicle maker Streetscooter, says German official

November 21, 2020
A German official is pushing Tesla (TSLA) to buy commercial electric vehicle maker Streetscooter. He even personally reached out to Elon Musk about it. At a time when electric delivery vehicles weren’t as popular, DHL, one of the largest logistics companies in the world, took over StreetScooter to build electric vehicles for its own fleet and others. StreetScooter quickly emerged as an…
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Here’s why this American-made electric vehicle company’s stock was up 69% yesterday

November 20, 2020
Oregon-based Arcimoto (FUV) has seen an incredible rally this week, with its largest gains posted yesterday. On Thursday alone, the Nasdaq-listed company was up 69.49%. On top of its current rally, that puts FUV up just over 100% since the market opened Monday morning. [Full disclosure: I should mention that I’m a pretty adamant supporter of EVs and am long on the electric vehicle stocks FUV…
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Quick Charge Podcast: November 19, 2020

November 20, 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…
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First peek at the 2022 Chevy Bolt EV

November 20, 2020
Today GM had a lot of new EVs on display at a Barclays investor event but far away, a realtor doing YouTube videos happened to catch the first public glimpse of the 2022 Bolt EV out in the wild. This is the same pre-COVID 2021 Bolt EV that we saw at GM’s EV Day in Detroit in February. YouTuber MooseOBX (Via GMAuthority, via Reddit) caught the 2022 Bolt without any camouflage. It is the first…
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Electric Ferrari — time to give classic cars a new lease of life?

November 20, 2020
From time to time, Fully Charged receives an offer that is too good to refuse, and when a long-term friend of the show offered us his electrified Ferrari 308, we didn’t hesitate. This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Fully Charged and Electrek. While the sheer scale of combustion engine cars that are converted to electric remains to be seen, conceivably, conversions could become an…
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