In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Swedish venture HYBRIT ships its first batch of steel made with green hydrogen instead of coal.
Korean researchers say they can recycle solar panels into high-performance solar cells.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so…
Report: New Google Pay app seeing slower-than-expected growth, unclear if Flex impacted
August 20, 2021
Back in March, a longtime Google vice president in charge of Google Pay and Next Billion Users left the company. That team was merged with Google’s shopping/commerce efforts, but a new report today points to the new Google Pay seeing slow growth and progress.
According…
In late 2018, Google hired Dr. David Feinberg to “organize [the company’s] health efforts” into one division tasked with “help[ing] everybody live their healthiest life.” The Google Health leader is now leaving the company after two years.
According to the Wall…
The process of shutting down classic Hangouts for Workspace users is almost complete as Google this week enables the integrated Gmail with Chat and Rooms for even more paid accounts.
Following our reporting, Google in late 2018 confirmed that it was shutting down classic Hangouts for Chat and Meet. The legacy service is being split into standalone messaging — with a group productivity focus…
SpaceX’s $3 billion contract to build a lunar lander for NASA was put on hold for a second time on Thursday after Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sued over the award, according to court filings. NASA voluntarily agreed to temporarily suspend the contract until November 1st while…
You can watch Tesla AI Day right here starting at 8:00 PM ET (5:00 PM PT) if Tesla is on time, which is a big ‘if’.
We are also going to link to all the headline-worthy news coming out of the event.
Over the last few years, Tesla started holding events, not really to…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 19, 2021
August 20, 2021
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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
Tesla announced that it is actually going to make a humanoid robot, called Tesla Bot, and it will be able to grab your groceries for you and perform other menial tasks.
Yes, it’s not a joke.
At its ‘AI Day‘ today, Tesla released many details about its progress to…
Candela’s revolutionary new high-powered electric boat motors have ‘almost unlimited lifetime’
August 20, 2021
Swedish electric boat manufacturer Candela has just unveiled a revolutionary new electric drive unit known as the C-Pod for its premium electric boats, and it’s an engineering work of art.
Candela claims that these are the highest-efficiency and longest-lasting boat motors…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Four in five US homeowners with solar and storage feel prepared to weather a power outage.
Average construction costs for US wind farms dropped by 27% from 2013 to 2019.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important…
