On Tuesday, two men at a museum in the Netherlands lifted a black sheet off a table to reveal a cantaloupe-size globe of overcooked meat perspiring under a bell jar. This was no ordinary spaghetti topper: It was a woolly-mammoth meatball, created by an Australian lab-grown-meat company called Vow. The meatball, made using real mammoth […]
Tesla is rumored to be planning a new battery factory to produce LFP cells in the US with China’s CATL, the world’s biggest battery manufacturer. Over the last few years, CEO Elon Musk has said multiple times that Tesla plans to shift more electric cars to LFP batteries in order to overcome nickel and cobalt supply […]
Nine states — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee and Utah — have passed laws banning gender care for minors. Florida’s Board of Medicine barred doctors from providing the treatments to new patients, while the Texas attorney general directed the state to investigate parents of transgender youth and any doctors providing care to […]
Swedish electric airplane maker Heart Aerospace is joining forces with BAE Systems to develop a battery system for its ES-30 electric plane. Heart partners with BAE to develop electric plane battery Heart Aerospace is paving the way for sustainable electric air travel to become the norm with its leading-edge zero-emission aircraft. We first covered the […]
As we approach April, much of the US is just beginning to thaw out after the harsh months of winter. Soon, spring will bloom into hot, sunny summers when we are expecting to see the official debut of the upcoming all-wheel drive Hyundai IONIQ 5 N. Before then, however, Hyundai is teasing its red-hot performance […]
NaaS Technology has unveiled this adorable automatic mobile EV charging robot that finds your EV, smart charges it, and takes auto payments. Mobile smart EV charging robot The orange-and-white automatic mobile EV charging robot is waterproof and shockproof, and it’s got deep learning, 5G, V2X, simultaneous localization and mapping, and other tech capabilities. China-based NaaS says […]
Tesla has launched its GigaBier, a limited-edition Cybertruck-inspired beer that is selling for the equivalent of $30 a beer. From a fart machine inside Tesla vehicles to flamethrowers, Elon Musk has had plenty of strange ideas that sounded like jokes but eventually became a reality. Back in 2018, Musk poked fun at Tesla haters with […]
On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla being on pace for a record quarter, Audi Q8 e-tron US pricing, Kia EV9 unveiling, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel – […]
If you see this shark heading toward you with an open mouth, don’t worry – it’s designed to catch plastic and other waste that destroys the water and its inhabitants rather than swimmers. The WasteShark is a mini electric catamaran-shaped robot that eats plastic, debris, and other things that don’t belong there while collecting data […]
Are you tired of dealing with the noise, pollution, and headache of using a standard gas-powered lawn mower? Well, it’s time to replace that aging relic with RYOBI’s 48V 30-inch electric riding mower. Delivering up to 1-acre of mowing per charge of the 50Ah 48V lead-acid battery, this mower will help you reduce noise, pollution, […]
