To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the Arc Vector electric motorcycle’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
The Arc Vector has ridden some proverbial twisty roads over the last few years, even before ever reaching it to production.
The high-tech and high-dollar electric motorcycle debuted with fanfare at the 2018 EICMA Milan Motorcycle Show, but then ran into funding trouble from flaky…
Ford has electric pickup range-extender design that drops into bed, could be option for F150
October 4, 2020
Ford has a design for removable range-extender that can drop into an electric pickup’s bed, which could possibly become an option for the upcoming F150 electric.
Range-extenders, which are basically generators, haven’t become popular with electric vehicles buyers.
It’s…
The United States National Parks Service (NPS) has just updated their regulations to codify electric bicycles up to 750W as legal in all national parks where bicycles are already permitted.
The new regulations, posted yesterday on the National Parks Service website, move to…
“A big frustration with the Apple TV 4K is about to be history,” my colleague Chris Welch wrote, when we learned that Apple’s premiere set-top box would finally be able play 4K YouTube videos at their native resolution instead of being stuck at 1080p. These days, even a $40 dongle can do better than that.
But though Apple’s latest software updates did bring YouTube 4K to the Apple TV 4K…
After several years of development, you’re finally getting your first glimpse of the Monster Hunter movie in action. Sony and IGN have shared a teaser trailer (via Polygon) for Paul W.S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter production that gives a hint of what to expect. It’s…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 3, 2020
October 4, 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…
Your first real look at the Monster Hunter movie is 13 seconds of surprised soldiers with guns
October 4, 2020
James Bond may not avert his next death until 2021, but apparently Paul W.S. Anderson’s Monster Hunter movie will still hit the big screen this year: the just-posted official teaser trailer for the movie confirms that it’ll arrive this December, “only in theaters.”
At just 13 seconds of footage, it’s not much of a teaser — and where are the swords? Milla Jovovich mans a minigun, and…
According to Polaris CEO Scott Wine, the company may be returning to the electric motorcycle space.
And the new Polaris/Zero Motorcycles partnership announced earlier this week would be the way they do it.
The exclusive partnership between Zero Motorcycles and Polaris…
Elon Musk confirmed that a new “vector-space bird’s eye view” is coming to Tesla vehicles under the FSD package.
Bird’s eye view, a vision monitoring system that renders a view of a vehicle from the top to help park and navigate tight spaces, has become a popular…
Google already has efforts to improve Android security, such as speeding updates and offering bug bounties, but it’s now ramping things up by disclosing flaws for software it didn’t write. The company has launched an Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (via XDA-Developers) to manage security flaws it discovers that are specific to third-party Android devices. Google hopes to both “drive…
