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Colorado is considering a regulation that would ban noisy, polluting gas-powered lawnmowers and leafblowers in the state as of 2025. It’s similar to a California rule which goes into place in 2024, but Colorado’s goes even further and would ban government and commercial use, along with sales. Gas-powered lawnmowers and leafblowers are surprisingly big polluters

Tesla has decided to use a bizarre defense in a lawsuit brought by the family of a Tesla owner who died in an accident while using Autopilot a few years ago. The automaker claimed that CEO Elon Musk shouldn’t be made available to explain some of his statements on self-driving because some of the public

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Washington, D.C. today during a six-day visit to the US. The meeting was at Musk’s request to discuss the possibility of building a Tesla gigafactory in Korea. Yonhap, a Korean news agency, summarized the meeting, saying that Yoon emphasized that “South Korea

Tesla has decided to make its controversial “yoke” steering wheel an option, and it is even asking for a $250 premium for it. When Tesla unveiled the new Model S with the “yoke” butterfly steering wheel, it was controversial. Some were worried about the actual shape of the wheel being problematic, while others were concerned

Two legacy automakers, Kia and Honda, both revealed new electric vehicle targets as the market for zero-emission EVs continues growing at a record pace globally. According to recent data, electric vehicle sales grew by 60% last year, with one in every passenger car bought being an EV. Although around 14% of total auto sales may

BMW is now weeks away from the world premiere of an all-electric version of its long-running 5 series and has shared some camouflaged images of the new i5 eDrive40 completing summer testing. BMW also shared some design and performance specs i5 customers can expect to see in the new EV. As a combustion model, the

The next-generation Tesla Roadster is still nowhere to be seen six years after being unveiled. Here’s an argument as to why Tesla should bring the car to market. When first unveiling the next-generation Tesla Roadster in 2017, it surprised many, but the reason made sense. Tesla now wanted to unveil a “halo car” that would clearly

A new Tesla Cybertruck sighting seems to bring more doubt about the electric pickup truck’s design. What do you think? When Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck back in 2019, the design was certainly polarizing. Some loved the boldness and willingness to try to reimagine what a pickup truck could look like, but many were also unimpressed

Tesla announces a successful step in a pilot project to deploy Powerwalls with German electric company Transnet BW to stabilize the grid and take better advantage of the country’s strong solar power. Over the last few years, we have seen virtual power plant projects become increasingly popular thanks to the advent of distributed energy assets

Buick opened reservations for its first electric SUV, the Electra E5, on April 13 in China. According to an update from the automaker Tuesday, the Buick Electra E5 has 8,000 orders after 10 days on the market. Buick’s first electric SUV receives 8,000 orders in 10 days The Electra E5 is not only the brand’s

Hyundai Motor Group and SK On plan to invest roughly $5 billion to build a new EV battery plant in the US. The partners recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on November 28 in Georgia, where Hyundai is building its first dedicated EV facilities. Hyundai and SK finalized plans for their North American-based battery

Tesla announced that it is starting to open its Supercharger network to non-Tesla electric cars in China. It’s another step toward making the Supercharger network a fully-opened global charging network. The automaker first started to open Supercharger stations to non-Tesla electric vehicles in Europe in 2021. In Europe, it is fairly easy for Tesla to

Tesla has released a rare update on the battery degradation in its electric cars. The automaker claims its batteries only lose about 12% of capacity after 200,000 miles. Battery degradation, which represents the loss in capacity and range over time with increasing mileage, is one of the biggest concerns of new electric vehicle buyers. It’s

GM and Samsung SDI have announced that they are partnering to build a new $3 billion battery cell factory in the US to power GM’s electric vehicles. It’s a change for GM, which has so far been mostly partnered with LG Energy for its battery cell supply. For the last few years, GM has been

Tesla is releasing a new software update that brings back regenerative braking options for its electric cars. Tesla previously allowed drivers to adjust the strength of the regenerative braking, which is one of the coolest features of electric vehicles. Instead of using a traditional braking system, an EV’s electric motor can reverse power to slow

The City of Boulder announced today that it’s purchased a Rosenbauer RTX, the State of Colorado’s first electric fire truck. Austrian-based Rosenbauer’s RTX is equipped with a 360 kW electric powertrain and two Volvo Penta Batteries totaling 132 kWh of power. It has four-stage electronic regenerative braking. It’s a range-extended EV, so it also has

Elon Musk seems a lot less sure about how Tesla could benefit from Twitter or the new X company the social media platform is now operating under – something he promised would happen to Tesla shareholders last year. Financially speaking, Tesla shareholders are those who suffered the most from Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition. The CEO

Volkswagen Group’s battery electric vehicle deliveries saw a large increase of 42% year-over-year in Q1 2023. In Q1 2023, Volkswagen Group handed over 141,000 battery electric vehicles to customers globally – an increase from 99,200 in Q1 2022. BEVs made up 6.9% of VW’s total deliveries Q1 2023, compared with 5.2% in Q1 2022. Nearly 70%

A new report states that Tesla is supposedly about to be importing its new cheap Model Y variant introduced in Canada last week from China. When first announcing plans to build cars in China, CEO Elon Musk clearly stated that it would only be to satisfy local demand and that Tesla wouldn’t export vehicles from

Today, smart electrical panel maker SPAN announced a Series B2 fundraise of $96 million – here’s what it’s going to do next. This follows a $90 million Series B fundraising round in March, and today’s announcement brings the company’s total funding to $231 million. This latest round was led by Wellington Management. SPAN, whose CEO, Arch