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Photo: First Student First Student is adding 40 electric school buses in New York City after completing the first phase of a charging project that cut infrastructure costs by 20%. The electric school buses will serve NYC Public Schools in Brooklyn and Queens, building on a demonstration project with Con Edison that tested a less disruptive way to install charging equipment in a dense urban environment. At the center of the project is First Charge, First Student’s above-ground charging system. Instead of digging trenches to bury electrical cables, the equipment carries them overhead, cutting construction costs and making installations faster…

Reigning F1 world champion Lando Norris’ stunning red Ferrari F40 has been spotted on the streets of London, looking “simply lovely”. Parked on a street at night, the F40 looked particularly striking under the city’s street lighting. It is wearing Monaco licence plates. The side profile is what really catches the eye. The low nose, huge rear wing and engineered bodywork still look fantastic decades after the F40 first came out. It’s not just Norris from the F1 world who owns a Ferrari F40. Seven-time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton recently fulfilled his long-standing dream by acquiring an F40. The…

Source: Tesla Tesla has reopened reservations for its next-generation Roadster, asking buyers for a $50,000 deposit about two weeks before the car is even unveiled. The reserve page went live this week ahead of an October 1 reveal near Waco, Texas. It’s the second time Tesla has collected $50,000 for the Roadster. The first batch of deposit-holders is still waiting, nearly nine years later. The page asks for $5,000 on a credit card today, described as “fully refundable,” followed by a $45,000 wire transfer due within 10 days. The reservation isn’t final until the wire clears. Tesla’s live Roadster reservation…

Last week, a number of diesel stations in California appeared on social media with the prices pinned at 9.99 – the highest number the pumps could display. Today, the pictures are showing something different: gas stations that are out of diesel entirely. Sensational posts about America running out of diesel have been popping up on YouTube pretty regularly since the US launched military strikes on Iran causing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year – but this latest round of hysteria is being backed up by more credible news sources, as well. “Photos appearing to show gas stations…

Following the debut of its Formula 1 team earlier this year, GM’s global ambitions for flagship luxury brand Cadillac continue to unfold in the 2027 model year as the ultra-hot V-series Lyriq-V EV makes its way to dealers Down Under. Cadillac announced the next step in its ambitious expansion this week, confirming plans to deliver the 615 hp, 650 lb-ft of torque V-series Lyriq-V to Australia and New Zealand for 2027. “Lyriq-V is a landmark vehicle for Cadillac in Australia and New Zealand. It brings the V-Series badge into the electric era for the first time, and delivers the immediacy,…

BYD has recalled all 36,000+ Shark 6 pickups that were sold in Australia. The defect relates to a faulty spare wheel support. If it fails, the spare wheel could become detached. BYD made a shock entry into the pickup space with their plug-in hybrid Shark 6. But despite going head-to-head with established competitors, the model has proved popular, not least in the land of the UTE, with Australian consumers buying over 32,000 examples in the two years since it was launched. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”);…

If you’ve ever wanted to own a genuine piece of electric vehicle vaporware history, now might be your chance. One of the most interesting artifacts from SONDORS’ more ambitious days has just surfaced for sale on eBay: the company’s three-wheeled electric car prototype. And amusingly, the asking price is $10,000 – exactly what SONDORS originally hoped to charge for the finished car. The strange vehicle is a three-seat, three-wheeled electric autocycle that was unveiled at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. At the time, Electrek’s own Jameson Dow saw the car in person at the show, though he noted that…

Chinese battery brand Sunwoda has just revealed a new EV battery charging system that can add 100 km (~62 miles) of range to an EV every minute, and can take a battery from from 10-97% SOC in less than 10 minutes. At room temperature. As armed conflicts continue to send global fuel prices skyward, EVs are getting to the point where they’re capable “filling up” on electric fuel in about the same (or less) than it takes to top up on gas or diesel – if you can even find any! Data Sunwoda presented its new 15C battery tech at a…

Africa’s electric motorcycle market is about to get an interesting new combination of Chinese manufacturing scale and homegrown battery-swapping infrastructure. Yadea, the Chinese electric two-wheeler giant that has sold more than 100 million vehicles globally, has announced a new strategic partnership with African electric mobility company Spiro. The two companies plan to work together on electric motorcycles and scooters specifically tailored to African markets while integrating those vehicles into Spiro’s rapidly growing battery-swapping network. And this isn’t exactly a small pilot project. Spiro says it already has more than 130,000 electric motorcycles operating across seven African countries, supported by over…

Fernando Alonso appears to have taken an Aston Martin Valkyrie LM for a quick run at Circuit Paul Ricard in France. The footage does not show the driver clearly, but the social-media post identifies Alonso behind the wheel. The car leaves the pitlane quietly in electric mode before the V12 fires into life. Its naturally aspirated engine fills the circuit with a race-car soundtrack, and the Aston Martin Valkyrie LM can still be heard even after disappearing from view. It then blasts past the camera on the main straight before returning to the pits. The Valkyrie LM is essentially a…