On January 12, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) would hold an offshore wind energy auction for more than 488,000 acres in the New York Bight. It’s still under way, and bids have now collectively reached around $2 billion.
This is the first offshore wind lease sale in over three years, and is the first offshore wind energy…
Ford CEO calls out NIO and Tesla as the competition ‘it must beat,’ denies rumors of splitting ICE and EVs into separate businesses
February 24, 2022
Ford’s Chief Executive Officer, Jim Farley, recently spoke during a virtual auto tech conference held by Wolfe Research, in which he spoke about Ford’s plans for the future. During the webcast, the Ford CEO specifically named Tesla and NIO as its biggest competitors…
EVgo announces Toyota bZ4X customers will receive one year of free EV fast charging
February 24, 2022
US public charging network, EVgo, has announced a commercial agreement with Toyota Motor North America to provide upcoming bZ4X customers with one year of free charging on its network. Toyota is EVgo’s latest automotive partner as it looks to continue to expand its public…
Tesla Model Y convinces another police department to go electric, believes it will save $4,000 a year in maintenance alone
February 24, 2022
Tesla Model Y has convinced another police department, Sykesville Police, to go electric and the maintenance cost was the difference-maker.
Tesla vehicles have become the go-to EV for police departments around the world. Many have started adding Tesla Model 3s to their fleets, like the NYPD most recently, and now, the Model Y is starting to gaining momentum.
Last year, Fremont police and the…
Lightning eMotors completes Colorado facility expansion, doubles production capacity, and shares manufacturing video
February 24, 2022
Electric conversion and purpose-built EV specialists Lightning eMotors announced it has completed a 102,000 sq. foot expansion of its manufacturing facility in Loveland, Colorado. With the expansion, Lightning eMotors expects an output of 1,500 zero-emission vehicles and…
The Oppo Find X5 series arrives with notable improvements to image processing, battery tech and even build quality. The new series debuts with two similar phones, one vanilla and Pro model. We will focus on the Oppo Find X5 Pro here, the vanilla model is covered in a…
Oppo unveiled two flagships today – the Oppo Find X5 and the X5 Pro. While the Pro is clearly top dog, the vanilla model actually has many of the same cool hardware features, including the Hasselblad Natural Color Calibration feature and the custom 6nm MariSilicon X image processing chip.
Here the custom chip is paired with the Snapdragon 888 (instead of the 8 Gen 1), which is hooked up to 8GB…
Today’s event focused on the Oppo Find X5 and Find X5 Pro, but standing right behind them was the Oppo Find X5 Lite. Not a completely new model, in truth it is essentially a the same as the Reno7 5G. This means that the hardware echoes that of the X5 series, but even the…
Motorola just announced its latest global flagship dubbed the Moto Edge 30 Pro. It comes with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, two 50MP cameras on the back and a 60MP selfie shooter.
While mostly based on the Edge X30, the Edge 30 Pro has a different battery and slightly…
Samsung’s Galaxy A-series will continue to be a main driver of growth for the Korean brand in 2022 and one of the more highly anticipated members is the Galaxy A53 5G. The device has been subject to numerous leaks and certification listings and the latest one comes from Google’s own Play Console.
Samsung Galaxy A53 5G listing on Google Play Console
The listing reveals an image of the…
