Cleantech & EV’s

Rivian has released updated pricing for the R1T electric pickup and R1S electric SUV coming next year. They are cheaper, but they are still a little more expensive than Tesla Cybertruck – though it is getting closer after electric vehicle incentives. When Rivian first unveiled the R1T and R1S in 2019, it announced that the vehicles will start at $69,000 before incentives, but after Tesla…

BMW has unveiled its highly-anticipated iNEXT electric SUV, which now becomes the ‘BMW iX’. It features a range of more than 300 miles of range and strong performance. BMW has been hyping the production version of the iNext as Tesla competitor for years now. Now they finally unveiled the production version, which they are now calling the BMW iX, but the vehicle is still about a year away…

Tesla hires the former head of a Mercedes-Benz factory near Berlin just after having fired the head of its Gigafactory Berlin project. The local union behind the Daimler factory is getting weirdly mad about it. René Reif was the head of the Mercedes-Benz factory in Marienfelde near Berlin until October of last year. Now IG Metall, a powerful union in the auto industry in Germany, reports that…

BMW has a new electric scooter concept that is apparently headed for series production… at some point. But until then, we can all gawk at the BMW Motorrad Definition CE 04 prototype in all its glory. We’ve been watching BMW make progress on the electric scooter for a few years now. The company has dripped a string of interesting patents for far out electric scooters. And it’s about time…