Amazon’s Prime Early Access sale may represent an ideal opportunity to snag a high-performance portable. The company is selling Razer’s late 2021 Blade 14 gaming laptop for $2,000, or a whopping $800 off. That gets you an eight-core Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, a smooth 165Hz 1440p display, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD and, crucially, GeForce RTX 3080 graphics. This is an easy-to-carry machine…
StoreDot’s production-ready EV battery cells achieve 1K extreme fast charging cycles
October 11, 2022
Electric vehicle battery start-up StoreDot announced that its extreme fast charging (XFC) battery cell technology has exceeded 1,000 charging cycles in a production-ready EV form factor.
StoreDot says its XFC EV battery cells repeatedly charged from 10-80% capacity in…
It looks like Tesla’s flagship Model S and Model X are finally coming back to China as the electric vehicles now appear on an updated list of cars receiving tax exemptions.
Tesla is different from most other automakers in many ways, and the way it handles model updates…
Google using Pixel Watch, Tablet unveils to encourage devs to build and optimize more apps
October 11, 2022
After Samsung’s adoption last year, the upcoming Pixel Watch launch will serve as the next biggest catalyst for Wear OS as an app platform, and Google is explicitly making that case.
After the Pixel Watch launch, the Android Developers Blog published a post to highlight the wearable and — to a lesser degree — Pixel Tablet. The Android Dev team explicitly said that “it’s an especially…
There’s a rather interesting thread by a software engineer who worked on Google Glass and Clips that discusses the “fatal flaws” of both, and the internal cultures that allowed the devices to ship.
Starting with the Google Glass analysis, Warren Craddock was a senior…
Share prices of several popular automakers are under pressure after UBS analyst Patrick Hummel warned investors Monday that the US auto industry will likely face hurdles ahead. Both General Motors (GM) and Ford (F) stock prices are down today on the news as investors grapple…
One of the most anticipated EVs of the coming year is the 2023 Chevy Silverado EV, and we’ve now gotten a good look at a testing prototype charging at an Electrify America charging station.
For better or worse, pickup trucks are the best-selling vehicles in the United States by a long way, and Chevy’s Silverado EV will be the first purpose-built EV pickup to hit the streets. Its main…
Getting solar shingles? Here’s how your asphalt roofing can be recycled using mushrooms
October 11, 2022
In what’s believed to be a first-of-its-kind project, four companies worked to give asphalt roofing shingles a sustainable second life by using mushrooms to break them down in a technique known as mycoremediation.
Asphalt shingles and mushrooms
According to the…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 10, 2022
October 11, 2022
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…
The Wetzlar Camera Auction has concluded, and some remarkable cameras were sold. Among the 256 lots, the majority were Leica cameras. However, among the highest hammer prices was a rare Nikon Nikkor-O Auto 58mm F1 lens.
The Nikon Nikkor-O Auto 58mm F1 lens sold for €150,000, which is about $145,580. It’s believed to be the first lens of its kind, and its serial number is 580101, where…
