Electric Cars

In April, the total sales of Ford and Lincoln vehicles in the US decreased 10.5% year-over-year to 176,965, including 167,707 Fords (down 10.5%). Year-to-date, the company noted a 15.3% decrease to 609,097, including 580,691 Fords (down 15.0%). Ford explains that the semiconductor chip shortages persist, which is a major factor that impacts production and sales.

By Simon Alvarez Posted on May 4, 2022 The Green League, an environmental group, has asked the Oder-Spree district to revoke Tesla Gigafactory Berlin’s operating license. The group pointed to an incident regarding the facility’s paint shop as a reason behind its request.  Last month, reports emerged that Giga Berlin had faced a potential crisis

Vermont is launching new electric bike and car incentive programs and is also continuing an existing EV incentive program for state residents. The transportation sector currently causes about 40% of the state’s carbon emissions.  The State of Vermont Agency of Transportation has selected the San Diego-based independent nonprofit Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to develop and administer

CharegUp Europe just released a 55-page report on the whole charging ecosystem in Europe (pdf). ChargeUp Europe is an association (… lobby group?) of 28 industry members that operate over 500,000 chargers. You might recognize some of them: Here are some numbers, graphs and insights I found noteworthy. If you’re interested, make sure to check

By Eric Ralph Posted on May 2, 2022 Now more than a third of the way through 2022, SpaceX remains firmly on track to hit CEO Elon Musk’s target of an average of one Falcon rocket launch per week throughout the year. SpaceX aced its 17th launch of 2022 – Starlink 4-16 – on April

Just because it’s Monday doesn’t mean you can’t start the week with a bang. And I’m at a loss of a better way than by feasting your eyes on the latest lethal animal from Australia: the Ungoverned Vendetta tracked electric skateboard. At least, I think “electric skateboard” is the closest thing to a correct classification

The Mercedes Benz EQS 450+ is easily one of, if not the most luxurious, premium electric vehicles available today. When it comes to electric vehicles, the driving range, as well as the ability to recharge quickly, are two features that need to be considered when labeling a vehicle “premium”.  The rear-wheel-drive Mercedes EQS 450+ has

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 30, 2022 Back in 2017, the drag strip was haunted by a dual-motor all-wheel-drive electric car that was capable of humbling supercars on the quarter-mile. That car was the Model S P100D with Ludicrous Mode, Tesla’s flagship sedan at the time, whose violent acceleration was enough to spawn a

There are few things more fun than hitting the water with your friends on Sunday afternoon, a cooler full of cold brewskies and a smile on everyone’s faces. But then again, few things can bring the floating party to an end quicker than the sound of a sputtering outboard engine as you hand out paddles

Ukraine has set up new medical clinics to serve two of the small towns to the north of Kyiv, Borodyanka and Irpin, both of which have been heavily affected by the war. Now the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, has confirmed that both will be equipped with Tesla Powerwalls

By Joey Klender Posted on April 29, 2022 Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold $8.5 billion worth of his electric automotive company’s stock following his acquisition of social media platform Twitter this week. Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal Musk sold around $3.3 billion worth of Tesla stock on Tuesday and another $654 million

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Ford published its Q1 2022 earnings this week, and it showed a net loss of $3.1 billion. The company points to its investment in Rivian stock as the reason for the loss. Rivian’s shares plummeted, which caused a big hit on Ford’s profitability. However, the automaker continues to stick to its full-year guidance, even amid

By Maria Merano Posted on April 27, 2022 Elon Musk received invites to move the social media platform’s HQ from California to Texas or Florida. Governor Greg Abbott from Texas and Mayor Lenny Curry from Jacksonville, Florida, presented their arguments to Elon Musk via Twitter.  Gov. Abbot argued that Musk’s other companies already have a

Tesla announced the expansion of its virtual power plant (VPP) powered by its Powerwall to several new states and regions in Australia. Australia, and especially South Australia, has had a lot of power issues over the years as it retires aging infrastructure and tries to manage a high penetration of renewable energy, which destabilized energy

NIO announced that on April 26, the 200,000th electric car rolled off the production line at the JAC-NIO Advanced Manufacturing Centre in Hefei, China. The jubilee vehicle happens to be the recently introduced NIO ET7 flagship, which noted its first deliveries in March (163 units). It’s a significant milestone for NIO, especially since it took

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 26, 2022 Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition may have rung alarm bells from the CEO’s critics, but the social media company’s co-founder, Jack Dorsey, seems to be completely supportive of the buyout. In a recent set of tweets, Dorsey noted that Musk’s acquisition is the correct path for the company. 

Twitter announced that it accepted an acquisition offer from Tesla CEO Elon Musk for roughly $44 billion, and it will become a private company once the transaction is closed. This is a surprising turn of events as Twitter’s board had appeared to resist Musk’s effort to buy the social media and even adopted a “poison

The lithium-ion battery market is on a fast track to growth thanks to the ongoing expansion of the electric vehicle market. Both markets are expected to accelerate this decade. According to a recent Benchmark Mineral Intelligence report, by 2030, the global lithium-ion production capacity might exceed 6 TWh (or 6,000 GWh). This forecast is based

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 24, 2022 During an interview with TED’s Chris Anderson, Elon Musk remarked that his brain-machine interface startup, Neuralink, would be solving brain and spinal injuries “for probably a decade.” Musk noted that the startup’s technology could even address health conditions like morbid obesity.  Experts have now stated that while

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

General Motors’s BrightDrop announced that, in collaboration with FedEx, it set a new Guinness World Record title for the greatest distance traveled by an electric van on a single charge. The BrightDrop Zevo 600, formerly known as the BrightDrop EV600, completed the nearly 260-mile (418 km) trip from New York City to Washington, D.C., driven

By Joey Klender Posted on April 22, 2022 Video of a Tesla crashing into a $2 million Cirrus Vision jet at an aircraft event while operating on the “Summon” feature has been circulating through several Reddit communities. Initially shared in the r/flying subreddit, the video shows that was apparently captured by security cameras shows a

Right after unveiling a new lower-cost folding e-bike two weeks ago, Phoenix-based Lectric eBikes is back with a new higher-end mid-drive electric bike known as the Lectric XPremium. The new folder is the brand’s first mid-drive e-bike and applies Lectric’s signature low-cost pricing to a much higher end electric bike than we’ve previously seen from

As in previous quarterly financial reports, Tesla has shared a graphic that illustrates its market share in three main automotive markets to highlight progress. The results are truly impressive, as according to the industry data, the company is consistently increasing its market share, despite the volatile global situation in terms of supply chains. In Q1

By Joey Klender Posted on April 21, 2022 Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) announced today that it would report earnings for the first quarter of 2022 on May 5 at 2:30 PM PT or 5:30 PM ET. Lucid said in its press release that it would issue a press release with a link to its live

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LG Magna e-Powertrain, the joint venture between South Korea’s LG Electronics and Canada’s Magna International, broke ground on its new plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, on April 19. If the name of the northern Mexico city rings a bell, it may be because General Motors also has a plant there, which currently builds the gasoline-powered

By Maria Merano Posted on April 19, 2022 Delta Air Lines tested Starlink technology and are in talks with SpaceX’s broadband unit, the airlines’ Chief Executive Ed Bastian told the Wall Street Journal. Bastian declined to provide specifics on Delta’s Starlink tests. However, the Delta CEO previously criticized the internet service available on flights. He believed

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office has announced a conditional commitment to lend up to $107 million to Syrah Technologies for its Syrah Vidalia Facility in Vidalia, Louisiana. The facility produces a finished natural graphite-based active anode material (AAM), a critical material used in lithium-ion batteries.  At the end of December, Tesla announced