Blue Origin has revealed when New Shepard’s sixth crewed flight will take place. The NS-22 mission (New Shepard’s 22nd launch overall) is set for August 4th, which is two months to the day after its previous spaceflight. The launch window opens at 9:30AM ET.
The company recently announced the passengers who will travel to the edge of space this time around. Among them are engineer Sara…
As sales of electric vehicles continue to surge, many new and prospective customers have questions about qualifying for federal tax credit on electric vehicles.
Whether you qualify is not a simple yes or no question… well, actually it sort of is, but the amount you may…
Electric trucks, like Tesla Semi or Lion Electric’s trucks, will get up to $40,000 in incentives with the new proposed “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.”
After the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022″ was announced in the US Senate this week, the EV community has…
Autonomy, an electric vehicle subscription service using Tesla vehicles, announced that it is adding Tesla Model Y to its fleet and is now taking delivery of about 200 Tesla vehicles per week.
It is also about to expand to other EVs with an order of 23,000 EVs that will include EVs from Rivian, Lucid, Ford, and more.
We first reported on Autonomy, which was founded by Scott Painter, the founder…
Podcast: Tesla Supercharger Cube lounge, new EV federal credit, Mercedes-Benz EQXX, and more
July 29, 2022
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss Tesla using new Supercharger Cube lounges, the new proposed EV tax credit, a test drive of the Mercedes-Benz EQXX, and more.
The…
Long time Electrek readers will know that I leased a Chevy Bolt EV from 2017 until the pandemic and really loved that electric blue “Micro-SUV” EV; we’ve already taken a look at its younger sibling, the EUV with Super Cruise. But considering recent events GM has…
Instagram has added a new “Dual” camera feature — seemingly in a bid to copy photo-sharing app BeReal which soared to the number one spot in the U.S. on Apple’s App Store charts this week.
The new “Dual” camera feature allows users to record content with their back-facing camera and record their reaction to the event with their front-facing camera at the same time. The rear…
Annie Lebowitz’s latest Vogue photo shoot of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena has sparked condemnation with many feeling the article was inappropriate amid the Russian invasion.
The presidential couple featured in a digital edition of…
New research has revealed the most famous photographs of all time — with NASA’s iconic “Man on the Moon” photo from 1969’s Apollo 11 mission topping the list.
For the study, photo book and printing company Inkifi used a reverse image search to show the…
Video: Learn how Kodak develops and applies light-sensitive coating to its film (in the dark!)
July 29, 2022
Last year, Destin Sandlin of the YouTube channel Smarter Every Day showed the science behind film development. Sandlin explained how photographic film is constructed, exposed, and developed. Sandlin discussed the film’s chemical structure and then shot some film.
Sandlin loves film. It has a special, unique quality that is tough, if not impossible, for digital cameras to match. He gets his…