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BMW electric vehicles at an IONNA station (Source: BMW) IONNA is giving Labor Day road-trippers a pretty awesome charging deal: From Friday, September 4, through Monday, September 7, charging across its entire network will cost just $0.20 per kWh, plus tax. That’s nearly half off IONNA’s regular network-wide rate, which is capped at $0.39 per kWh, with no paid membership required. Here’s what that looks like in actual dollars: Adding 50 kWh ordinarily costs up to $19.50 before tax at an IONNA charger. During the sale, it’ll cost $10 – a savings of $9.50. Any compatible EV can charge for…
The company’s public fast-charging station left me baking in the sun for 40 minutes. Source link
Citrus Flatts Energy Center, Cameron County, TX. Photo: Equinor Equinor’s largest US battery energy storage project to date is now operating in South Texas, adding 100 megawatts (MW) of flexible capacity to the state’s fast-growing power grid. The Citrus Flatts Energy Center is a 100 MW/200 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery in Harlingen, Cameron County. It was built and is operated by East Point Energy, Equinor’s wholly owned US battery storage subsidiary. East Point acquired the project from Black Mountain Energy Storage in late 2023.Citrus Flatts is East Point’s second battery to reach commercial operation, following the 10 MW/20 MWh Sunset Ridge Energy…
Ford has revived one of the strangest Mustangs ever built. The one-off V10 Boss 351 Prototype spent years sitting idle and came close to being forgotten, but the company’s Heritage Fleet team has finally got its unusual engine running again. The project dates back around 25 years, when a group of Ford engineers decided that the Mustang needed something far more exotic than its usual V8. Rather than borrowing a truck-derived V10, they effectively combined parts from two 4.6-litre Modular V8 architectures and added two more cylinders. The result was a naturally aspirated 5.8-litre V10 with an all-aluminium construction, bespoke…
Tesla has updated its Robotaxi app so riders can pick which vehicle they want before they book. The latest in-app screens now show two options side by side: the two-seat Cybercab and the four-seat Model Y. A screenshot circulating Thursday shows the change in practice. In Austin, a rider could choose a gold Cybercab for two people or a Model Y for four. Tesla’s updated description calls Cybercab “our first purpose-built autonomous vehicle,” designed for safety, accessibility, and comfort, and says the lineup is available only through the Robotaxi app. Tesla has updated their Robotaxi page in the App Store.…
If successful, Ford’s plan would put it right next to Tesla. But it won’t be easy. Source link
A Tesla Model X struck and killed a motorcyclist at an intersection in Moraine last year and the crash went mostly unnoticed. But Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the vehicle was a Model X with its driver-assist system, Autopilot or Full Self-Driving (Tesla hides which one) engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data — and it’s the clearest example yet of how completely these crashes can vanish from the public record. What happened at Germantown Pike and Hemple Around 8:15 p.m. on July 23, 2025, a three-wheeled motorcycle…
SpaceX has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to fly Starlink terminals during Starship’s fourteenth flight test, and the filing lays out a genuine trip to orbit, something the program has never attempted. Every Starship flight so far, including Flight 13’s successful splashdown in the Indian Ocean on July 24, has flown a suborbital arc that ends with the ship reentering the atmosphere within the same hour it launches. The FCC paperwork describes a mission profile built around an actual orbital insertion instead. The payload is the other half of the story. Flight 13 carried 20 production Starlink V3 satellites,…
The Torcal will out-accelerate every Bentley before it, but Crewe says the numbers matter less than how effortlessly it delivers them. Source link
Electric cars outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time in August. Battery-electric vehicles hit 27,078 sales, or 24.9% of the new-car market, ahead of both petrol (25,824) and diesel (23,608). The Tesla Model Y topped every model on sale. But look past it, and Australia’s EV record is almost entirely a Chinese one. An EV record, and combustion becomes the minority BEV sales were up 171% year-over-year, according to VFACTS and Electric Vehicle Council data. Add hybrids and plug-in hybrids, and electrified vehicles took 51.8% of the market. It’s the first month combustion-only cars have been in the…