Since 2017, Waymo has offered a limited access to a sometimes “fully driverless” ride-hailing service, Waymo One, to select residents of Phoenix. Starting today, Waymo’s fully driverless rides will gradually become available to all customers in the Phoenix area.
As explained on the official Waymo blog, the company has gradually expanded fully driverless — meaning there’s no backup driver…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 8, 2020
October 9, 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…
Tesla is doing a Model 3 refresh and we’ve seen it
October 9, 2020
Tesla is making an update to Model 3, which is significant enough that people other than Elon Musk would call it a refresh, and we’ve seen it.
Electrek can confirm some of the new features.
Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of rumors about a Model 3 update.
It…
Audi teases electric e-tron GT production version, releases ‘progressive’ sound of the supercar
October 9, 2020
Audi is teasing the production version of its e-tron GT electric supercar and unveiling the ‘progressive’ sound of the vehicle.
The vehicle is an exciting entry in the EV space and a collaboration with Porsche leveraging their expertise with the Taycan.
Audi unveiled the prototype back in 2018 and now it is getting ready to start production.
Today, the German automaker teased the production…
Polestar is a bit of an enigma as far as auto companies are concerned. The company, which is a joint venture between Geely and Volvo (which, in turn, is also owned by Geely), operates independently on some fronts from either Geely or Volvo in order to remain nimble. But it…
Zero Motorcycles recently teamed up with Deus ex Machina to create the first-ever fully customized Zero SR/S electric motorcycle.
Zero has occasionally collaborated with designers who have taken Zero’s platform in entirely new (and often shocking) directions.
The…
Amazon is unveiling today its electric delivery van made by Rivian, and we get to see its cool interior for the first time.
Last year, Rivian took a $700 million round of funding led by Amazon, and at the time, they were discussing opportunities to work together.
A few months later, we learned that one of those opportunities is building an electric delivery van for the online retail…
X SHORE Electric Boat & AIM ZERO Ocean Clean-Up
October 8, 2020
When we first embarked on our Fully Charged journey — 10 years and 553 episodes ago — we were especially attracted to electric cars and the clean energy that could potentially power them. Over time, and to our occasional astonishment, the adaptability of the humble…
EGEB: The world’s most widely used green energy? Hydropower
October 8, 2020
Hydropower is revealed as the most widely used renewable power source around the world.
Here are three of the latest trends in solar and storage, according to online marketplace EnergySage.
A former fossil-fuel exec explains why he’s joined residential geothermal company…
This fossil-fuel exec jumped to geothermal. He tells us why
October 8, 2020
Residential geothermal company Dandelion Energy yesterday announced that it’s hired a new vice president of drillings whose name is Jeremy Smith. What’s unique about Smith? The exec comes from a fossil-fuel background.
From fossil fuels to geothermal
Smith brings more than 18 years of experience in the natural gas and oil industries to Dandelion’s geothermal drilling operations. Before…
