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When you spend $20 million on a one-off Bugatti, you don’t just visit a dealership, sign the paperwork, collect the keys, and drive off in your new car. The handover is more like a gala event with a posh dress code. A similar event was recently held in Chantilly, France. The occasion was the delivery of the Bugatti Brouillard, which coincided with the Chantilly Arts & Elégance. It was attended by Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac and the man who designed the car, Frank Heyl, along with other dignitaries. As you can see, the customer was pretty excited about his new…
Update 9/11: Many of the included sales down below are lasting past Labor Day, with some ending tonight and others lasting through the week and further. We have updated the lists so you can continue shopping until the savings are officially over. Happy Labor Day all! With Amazon’s Labor Day Sale event having been leading most of the deals we’ve seen for weeks, not to mention all the great Green Deals editions leading up to today’s holiday and the savings aren’t going anywhere just yet. Through the rest of the day and even further into the week (and month), you…
Lee Zeldin, Chief Saboteur of the Environmental “Protection” Agency. Photo by SecretName101 on wikimedia The EPA plans to announce a new policy on Monday that will eliminate limits on power plant pollution, saddling Americans with another $120 billion in long-term health costs, in the latest step of Trump’s assault on Americans’ pocketbooks. The news comes from a New York Times report which cites two people familiar with the proposal. It would eliminate limits on greenhouse gas pollution, the kind of which has contributed to the wild weather much of the world is suffering from this summer, with record heat and…
Up front, the bonnet is relatively short, and the ID.3 still does not offer a ‘frunk’ for storing charging cables. Cleverly, though, the rear-view reversing camera remains hidden away under the rear VW badge, keeping the lens clean from road grime. Performance and driving dynamicsOn the move, the ID.3 once again demonstrates exactly what Volkswagen’s engineers are capable of. Although it is certainly no lightweight, at around 1.9 tonnes, the adaptive suspension (DCC) and progressive steering set-up (likely to be a cost option) extract astonishing capability from the chassis. The 4.27-metre-long EV reacts immediately to steering inputs. It feels remarkably…
Geely launched its new TT electric sport sedan in China, starting at 129,900 yuan (about $19,100), with 800V fast charging and LiDAR on every trim. That price puts a 640 km sedan with next-generation charging hardware at roughly half the price of a Tesla. Sold as the Galaxy TT in China and simply “the TT” in Geely’s international materials, the car arrives in five versions: four rear-wheel-drive trims and one all-wheel-drive Ultra. The RWD range runs from 129,900 yuan to 159,900 yuan ($19,100 to $23,500), and the limited-edition Ultra tops out at 185,900 yuan (around $27,300). Geely says the TT…
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 a new $900 45mph off-road e-moto from Engwe, delays continue for the ALSO e-bike, Illinois sort of made a path to legality for fast e-bikes, review of the Juiced Nomadix R e-moto, 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…
Tesla revealed the European specs for its Semi electric truck, and they don’t match the version already in production in the US. The truck will offer up to 550 km (342 miles) of range at 40 tonnes fully loaded. Tesla Europe posted the numbers today, days before the company plans to formally launch the Semi in Europe at the IAA Transportation show in Hannover. The European Semi specs Tesla Europe laid out the figures in a post on X: Up to 550 km of range at 40 tonnes, fully loaded 1 kWh/km energy consumption Megacharger at up to 800 kW,…
SpaceX had an 87 minute window opening at 2:49 p.m. Eastern on Sunday to fly a Falcon 9 out of Cape Canaveral carrying the final three satellites for SES’s O3b mPower constellation, a project that has taken more than a decade to finish since Boeing and SES first signed SpaceX on for the work. Unlike the thousands of Starlink satellites SpaceX has stacked into orbit over the years, O3b mPower flies in a different neighborhood entirely. The three new satellites, tagged F11, F12 and F13, are headed for medium Earth orbit at roughly 5,000 miles up, more than ten times…
Electric farm tractors are a great idea that hasn’t quite found a way to succeed in the market, but Ohio-based GoSun thinks the time is right to try again – this time with integrated solar charging technology that could give its all-electric tractor a serious advantage over the diesel-powered competition. Co-developed with Indian tractor brand Moonrider, the descriptively named Moonrider 27 All-Electric Solar Tractor from GoSun features a 20 kW (~27 hp) electric motor that sends torque to all four wheels for maximum traction and pulling power on any kind of terrain. A 540 rpm mechanical power take off (PTO)…