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Metallic Glass Gears Up for ‘Cobots,’ Coatings, and More
Bulk metallic glass could slash prices of collaborative robots and lead to advanced 3D printed metals.
Where are the robot assistants we were promised?
For all the space that robots have occupied in the popular imagination for the last hundred years – and although the…
Quick Charge Podcast: July 29, 2021
July 30, 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…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
London trials on-street EV chargers that sit flush with the sidewalk.
Royal Dutch Shell buys Inspire Clean Energy to grow its clean energy business.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar…
Nikola founder Trevor Milton charged with fraud over false claims about electric/hydrogen trucks
July 30, 2021
Trevor Milton, the founder and former CEO of Nikola, a company working on electric and fuel cell trucks, was indicted today by a grand jury on three counts of criminal fraud over false claims he made about the company.
Milton became a billionaire after taking Nikola public through a SPAC deal, and the price of the stock shot up as the CEO made several claims about the company’s progress toward…
To enable a future transition to electric, it’s vital that we look beyond electric cars and focus on electric vehicles of all shapes and sizes.
[This is part of an ongoing collaboration between Fully Charged and Electrek.]
Volta Zero
The Volta Zero electric truck is the…
During its “Tech Zone” online launch event, global battery maker CATL introduced its first-generation sodium-ion battery, as well as an AB solution that integrates both sodium-ion and lithium-ion cells into one pack. While this first generation of sodium-ion cells is not…
Mercedes-Benz has announced several new electric vehicle premieres at the upcoming IAA mobility show in Munich.
IAA Mobility Show is positioning itself as the new major mobility/car show in Europe, and several automakers, bike companies, and more are expected to unveil new electric vehicles at the event.
Today, Mercedes-Benz confirmed that it will be amongst those automakers unveiled new…
Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Indonesia to manufacture BEV batteries in the country through a new joint venture (JV). As part of the JV, Hyundai and LG will invest a total of $1.1 billion…
Whether you’ve been considering taking a break from Facebook or decided it’s time to leave the platform for good, follow along for how to deactivate or delete your Facebook account, or dial in your privacy settings.
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How to deactivate or delete…
Material You can be seen in various parts of the system on Android 12. The next big step for the company’s new design language is app updates, and that started with Google Camera seeing some tweaks this month. Google Contacts is now the inaugural first-party app to get a sizable Material You redesign.
Material You in Google Contacts starts with a pill-shaped search field up top that replaces…
