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Tesla’s racism trial in California opened Monday with a bad day for the company’s lawyers. The first witness testified that a senior Tesla in-house attorney had called him last week and let him believe he was working for the state, according to Law360 (paywall). That same morning, Tesla’s outside counsel told the judge the N-word is a “term of respect and endearment” in the Black community. Both happened in front of Judge Peter Borkon, the one person who will decide the case. Back in May 2022, three months after California first sued Tesla over racism at Fremont, Elon Musk announced…
Credit: Zanegler Tesla has lined up at least 11 Semi electric trucks wearing customer logos outside its new Nevada factory, a clear sign that the automaker plans to parade its fleet customers at tonight’s Semi launch event. A drone flyover of the plant shows trucks branded for PepsiCo, US Foods, DHL, WattEV, ABF, Einride, IMC, OK Produce, and a few others parked in a neat row by the factory. The footage comes from Zanegler, a YouTuber who calls himself a “Tesla Semi Advocate” and regularly flies his drone over Tesla’s Semi operations in Sparks, Nevada. In the video, eight trucks…
Hyundai’s head of R&D says small-volume cars with solid-state batteries should hit the market within five years. Source link
Kia’s off-road electric SUV might be real after all. New patent images reveal what could be the production version of the EV9 ADVNTR. Is Kia bringing the off-road electric SUV to life? We got our first look at the EV9 ADVNTR almost two years ago at the 2024 SEMA show. Kia said the electric SUV concept was built for the outdoors with off-road modifications like a custom roof rack, reinforced rocker panels, and rugged all-terrain tires. The roof rack can carry extra luggage, or you can pop up a roof-mounted tent for an overnight stay almost anywhere. Kia’s adventure vehicle…
Image: Tesla Tesla officially launched high-volume production of the Tesla Semi last night at its new dedicated factory in Nevada, a plant it says can build 50,000 electric trucks per year. The Class 8 truck was unveiled in 2017 with production promised for 2019. Seven years later, Tesla says deliveries “start now,” and it detailed a heavily redesigned truck in a 13-post thread on X. A factory built only for Semi Tesla held the launch event at the Semi factory next to Gigafactory Nevada in Sparks, where the first truck came off the high-volume line back in April. According to…
Another Ferrari F80 has arrived in London, and this one isn’t your standard Rosso spec but a one-off ‘Lucky Orange’. It’s without a doubt one of the boldest F80 specs we’ve seen so far. This F80 was commissioned by @stevekhera, who has several other high-end Ferraris in his collection. The bright orange exterior is paired with exposed carbon fibre surfaces, which provide a nice contrast. The wheels are also made of lightweight carbon fibre, and the brake calipers are painted yellow. The F80 uses a 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 engine that produces 900 hp. The internal combustion engine is paired with…
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 new e-bikes from Segway and Honda, South Park takes on e-bikes, Rivian’s e-bikes are rolling out to everyone except for customers, Royal Enfield’s e-moto gets a Western price, and more. The Wheel-E podcast returns every two weeks on Electrek’s YouTube channel, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and…
The developers and electricians at Green Water & Power are celebrating a significant EV charging milestone this month with the deployment and energization of its 10,000th electric vehicle charging port – in just three years. (!) Green Water & Power (GWP) and their hardware partners, Autel, started rolling out L2 chargers together nationwide in 2023. Earlier this month, the companies powered up their 10,000th charger. That’s a headline number – but the real story is just how quickly they got there: 10,000 chargers. For those of you doing the math, that’s nearly 10 chargers going online each day, every day, including Sunday,…
To answer this we’ve turned to Alfa Romeo, a brand whose story stretches back 115 years (it turns 116 on 24 June). And for a bit of context, China was still ‘Imperial China’ when Alfa was incorporated in Turin. While the form of this ‘legacy’ car – a high-performance SUV – is on the contemporary side, it’s also the purest Alfa Romeo product in the brand’s current line-up. The chassis, engine, interior, tech interfaces and more, were all designed and developed in-house by a small skunkworks team, even though Alfa is part of a much larger conglomerate. Advertisement – Article…
The latest leaf vacuum, mulcher, and blower three-in-one from electric tool brand EGO promises fully 210 mph of blowing power and enough mulching mayhem to turn 16 bags of autumn leaves into just one for easy fall cleanup. First shown earlier this year, the EGO POWER+ LV5005 Leaf Vacuum and Mulcher with 500 CFM Blower arrives just in time for 2026 fall cleanup, tackling three of the most tedious jobs in home landscaping with a single battery-powered tool that promises to slash tidying-up time and help save your lower back in the process. Powered by the same 6.0 Ah EGO…