Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla is teasing an October 1 reveal for the new Tesla Roadster, nine years after it first showed the prototype. The company posted a “Go for launch” teaser image Friday showing the electric hypercar bathed in rocket-launch lighting, with the date “10.01” stamped across it. What Tesla showed The red car sits under bright vertical light like it’s on a launch pad, “Go for launch” is…

A pre-production Tesla Cybercab was spotted parked on a street in Berkeley, California, and it gives us the clearest look yet at how Tesla puts a steering wheel into a car it designed to have none. The photos, shared with Electrek by reader Adam Machacek, show a Cybertruck steering wheel mounted on an exposed steering column that has been bolted into the two-seat robotaxi. A car built with no…

China has already crossed its record car export number from last year, and we’re only 2/3 of the way through the year. It shows how China’s EV choices are leading the country to dominate manufacturing, while the rest of the world’s automaking nations simply stand by and eagerly enable it. Chinese car sales numbers for the month of August are in, and paint a once-again rosy picture for EVs.

BYD launched the new Denza Z9 GT e3 Premium, a lower-priced version of its top-selling electric luxury GT, starting at about $50,000. BYD launches lower-priced Denza Z9 GT e3 Premium We knew it was coming. Li Hui, Denza’s general manager, confirmed earlier this week that a new “lightweight” variant of the tri-motor EV would go on sale on September 9. Denza launched the new Denza Z9 GT e3…