Electric Cars

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 21, 2024 The U.S. state of Illinois has been granted almost $20 million to help several areas transition to electric school buses, as part of a program within President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) announced on Friday that it has been

A coal plant in South Texas will shut down and convert to a solar + battery electricity generation facility, with the help of a $1.4 billion grant from the US Department of Agriculture meant to help clean energy while saving rural jobs. The grant will go to San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc (SMECI) headquartered in

By Joey Klender Posted on December 19, 2024 Tesla uses a little-known Cybertruck Easter Egg with the massive windshield wiper to help with efficiency and aerodynamics. The Easter Egg is called “Aero Mode,” and it all has to do with the positioning of the obnoxiously large windshield wiper that Tesla installed on the Cybertruck. According

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes Priority Bicycles launching the new Priority Current Plus, Segway going big on e-bikes in the US, California kicking off its e-bike vouchers, NYC may try to put license plates

By Joey Klender Posted on December 18, 2024 Tesla’s focus on sustainable energy and its disruption in various sectors, as well as its current position as a leader in those sectors, has landed it a huge new price target bump from a Wall Street firm. Vijay Rakesh of Mizuho Securities has increased his Tesla price

Honda announced it will be back at CES this year, unveiling the next phase of its new 0 Series line of EVs. At this year’s event in Las Vegas, Honda intends to unveil two prototype EVs based on the concepts that debuted a year prior. This will be our next look at Honda’s 0 Series

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 16, 2024 Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has officially announced plans to bring its robotaxis to another country starting early next year. On Monday, Waymo announced in a press release that it will start testing its self-driving Jaguar I-Pace units in Tokyo, Japan in early 2025,

Volkswagen ID.3 GTX FIRE+ICE (Source: Volkswagen) European automakers are reducing prices on EVs while raising prices on their ICE models, all in hopes of avoiding hefty fines as the European Union’s new emissions rules tighten at the beginning of 2025. On January 1, the EU will drastically lower its cap on automotive CO2 emissions, meaning

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 15, 2024 Tesla is currently selling the launch edition of its Cybertruck units in inventories around the U.S., as can be seen on the company’s website. Within the past few days, Tesla’s “Foundation Series” Cybertrucks have appeared on the company’s inventory page in states across the U.S. At the

MAN Truck & Bus reached another milestone on its path towards decarbonization by delivering its first regular production Ultra Low Liner eTGX electric semi truck to international logistics service provider Duvenbeck – who plan to add over 100 more such trucks to its fleet in total. (!) Duvenbeck signed a letter of intent (LOI) to purchase

By Simon Alvarez Posted on December 13, 2024 A Delaware judge has cleared the way for Elon Musk and Tesla to begin a legal appeal process for Musk’s 2018 pay package. The appeal process is a key step in the company’s attempt to try and reinstate the CEO’s $56 billion high-risk, high-reward compensation plan. Tesla

Smog over Los Angeles. Photo: Steven Buss on Flickr The US government is ready to approve California’s emissions rules which would end gas-only car sales within the state by 2035, according to a report by the Washington Post. The Post spoke with anonymous sources stating that California’s “Advanced Clean Cars 2” light-duty emissions rules, which

By Joey Klender Posted on December 12, 2024 Tesla bull ARK Invest offloaded over 51,000 shares of the electric automaker on Wednesday night after the company’s run on Wall Street continued. ARK sells Tesla shares to equal out the concentration of certain securities within its ETFs. The sale is not a statement that the company

Updated 2026 Genesis Electrified GV70 (Source: Genesis) Genesis is upgrading its luxury electric SUV with more style, a bigger battery, and a refined interior. It even comes with an NACS port to access Tesla Superchargers. With deliveries coming up, the new Genesis Electrified GV70 was spotted in public for the first time. Check out the

By Simon Alvarez Posted on December 10, 2024 Swedish union IF Metal and its allies’ strike against Tesla Sweden has already been going on for over a year. But despite the unions’ efforts to block Tesla’s operations, the electric vehicle maker is proving to be extremely resilient.  This has resulted in union officials getting very

Photo: Nextracker Nextracker just set a milestone in US clean energy manufacturing: It has delivered the first-ever solar trackers expected to meet 100% domestic content requirements under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). These US-made trackers are now on their way to power SB Energy’s Pelican’s Jaw solar project in Kern County, California. (Solar trackers, typically

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 9, 2024 Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI has launched an image generation model this week, coming just as the Sam Altman-run competitor OpenAI has debuted its highly-anticipated video generation model, dubbed Sora. On Monday, xAI announced the news in a blog post on its website, highlighting that

Photo: Solar Landscape Commercial rooftop solar developer Solar Landscape secured a record-breaking $847 million in 2024 to fund its largest-ever portfolio of commercial rooftop solar projects. This windfall will finance over 200 US installations and bring clean energy to the equivalent of more than 50,000 homes. Solar Landscape’s record-breaking 2024 Prologis, a global logistics giant, announced