This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discussed Tesla’s Cyber Roundup annual meeting, a concerning Jaguar I-Pace fire, our BMW i4 review, and more.
The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.
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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a now fully supported Democratic bill that addresses climate change and contains wind and solar spending, is expected to be introduced tomorrow in the US Senate. Here’s what its potential impact is, should it become law.
Princeton…
Colorized Photos Bring Influential Women Back to Life
August 5, 2022
American activist Margaret Sanger | Getty Images / colorized by Marina Amaral
Digital colorist Marina Amaral can spend anywhere from three hours to three weeks breathing new life into old black and white photographs.
Amaral’s latest project, A Woman’s World…
First photographers on TikTok were scratching their lenses, now the ante has been upped significantly with a video showing a camera sensor destroyed by a drill.
Photographer Andres Davila posted horrifying videos to his TikTok page of him first taking a hard brush to his sensor and lens, then using a drill on the inside of the camera and the sensor itself.
@video.andres Replying to…
Canon is Riding a Rising Market As Cameras Sell Well
August 5, 2022
Ordinarily, it is the end-of-year results that are the most interesting as they provide a picture of how the year has gone and what the outlook for the next year is. However, with this report, Canon has confirmed three critically important aspects of the camera market which…
Locket, a popular app that shares photos straight to family and friends’ home screens, has just announced that it has secured $12.5 million in funding.
The app has secured funding from Open AI CEO, Sam Altman, among others, and has been downloaded over 20…
NYA-EVO has announced an upgraded version of its Fjord camera backpacks that are made from recycled nylon waste such as those from fishing nets and fabric scraps. The result is a heavy-duty bag that also reduces the environmental impact of nylon by 90%.
The backpack company was launched in 2017 and says its goal is to create gear that is responsive and intuitive to photographers’ needs…
Nikon’s Q1 results show Imaging Products profits up 48% YoY, revenue nearly matching pre-pandemic results
August 5, 2022
Nikon’s high-end Z-mount cameras, such as the Z9 pictured here, have proven critical for the company in its transition from DSLR to mirrorless cameras.
Nikon has announced the financial results for the first quarter (Q1) of its 2023 fiscal year (FY2023), revealing…
RED’s latest flagship camera, the V-RAPTOR XL 8K VV, is now available to pre-order. As with previous ‘XL’ versions of its camera systems, the V-RAPTOR XL 8K VV uses the same 8K Vista Vision (VV) sensor (40.96mm x 21.60mm) inside the standard V-RAPTOR, but wraps it…
Despite signs of wear, the intrepid spacecraft is about to start an exciting new chapter of its mission as it climbs a Martian mountain.
Ten years ago today, a jetpack lowered NASA’s Curiosity rover onto the Red Planet, beginning the SUV-size explorer’s pursuit of evidence that, billions of years ago, Mars had the conditions needed to support microscopic life.
Since…
