Author: Sofia
It’s a really comfortable car, but efficiency suffers at highway speeds. Source link
Photo: DEI Two Massachusetts cranberry bogs that had stopped making financial sense to farm are growing berries again – with solar panels overhead helping pay the bills. The Black Cat project in Plymouth and the Ring Road project in Kingston combine cranberry farming, community solar, and battery storage. Distributed Energy Infrastructure (DEI), which built the projects, says income from leasing the land for solar has made it viable to cultivate the long-idle bogs again. It’s a particularly challenging form of agrivoltaics because cranberry bogs have soft, peaty soil and established vines that need to survive construction. You can’t just roll…
I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term experience with real-world e-bike testing has helped me find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget. Below are some of the top e-bikes I’ve hand-tested for every price range, current as of October 2026. Fall weather is upon us, bringing cooler temps and beautiful views, so it’s a great time to hop in the…
The Roadster also leapt over Tesla’s entire lineup, including the 13.5-foot-tall Semi. Source link
Volkswagen is set to recall “several thousand” electric vehicles, including the ID.4 and ID. Buzz. The company is urging owners to limit charging to 80% until a fix is available. Which EVs are included in the Volkswagen recall? After recalling close to 100,000 electric vehicles globally earlier this year, Volkswagen is preparing for another major recall. A company spokesperson told the German newspaper Handelsblatt that “several thousand” Volkswagen EVs are affected. The recall follows an internal quality check that found some high-voltage battery cells do not meet quality requirements. According to the report, the affected models include the ID.3, ID.4,…
The new Tesla Roadster may have stunned everyone with its crazy performance claims, but there’s an interesting detail buried in the paperwork that prospective buyers should know about. Even after putting down as much as $250,000, buyers aren’t actually guaranteed a car. Tesla’s reservation agreement states that the Roadster is still under development and that the company cannot guarantee when it will be delivered — or even if it will be delivered at all. That’s quite a disclaimer for a car expected to enter production in 2028. The payment also doesn’t represent a confirmed order. Instead, it gives buyers an…
During the Tesla Roadster reveal on Thursday, Tesla’s CEO was cagey about whether it would actually be legal to drive on public roads. Source link
Two California Highway Patrol officers are recovering from serious injuries after a Tesla drove into their patrol car at a crash scene on Interstate 80 in Fairfield. The 22-year-old driver told investigators he was asleep with Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” engaged. CHP released dashcam video of the impact on Thursday. It’s the latest Tesla to plow into an emergency scene, a failure federal regulators started investigating five years ago. Flares, cones, and four closed lanes The crash happened just before midnight on Tuesday, October 13, on eastbound I-80 west of Air Base Parkway. Officers were there for an earlier fatal crash:…
The automaker said its future models will be capable of doing point-to-point, hands-free automated driving. Source link
Canadian EV customers are delaying buying decisions while they wait for more Chinese EVs to reach their shores, according to a new survey, suggesting widespread awareness of China’s EV dominance is causing EV buyers to ignore Western automakers’ offerings entirely. The survey was commissioned by Clean Energy Canada, and shows that Canadian interest in EVs is slowly ticking up, with nearly half of them inclined, likely or certain to buy an EV as their next vehicle. But more interestingly, among potential EV buyers, there’s one big stumbling block: China. Originally, Canada had the same tariff on Chinese EVs that the…