The electric trike world just got a new heavyweight contender. Puckipuppy’s latest release, the Rottweiler, looks like it was built to haul, climb, and cruise with equal confidence. And with full suspension as well as specs like these, it’s hard not to take notice. At the heart of the Rottweiler e-trike is a 960W peak […]
Car dealers, who have long been a roadblock in the rollout of EVs in the US, are continuing with their old tricks and filing lawsuits against new spinoff EV brands, like Sony Honda’s Afeela and VW’s Scout, which had hoped to extricate themselves from the dealership model. Ever since the beginning of the EV revolution […]
If you are like me, you brush your teeth—too vigorously, I’m told—with a plastic rack of plastic bristles. You use your plastic brush to lather a paste pushed from a plastic tube. When you have a cavity, you go to a dentist who might fill the hole with a plastic composite then sand it flush […]
Is Toyota’s new 2026 C-HR the affordable electric SUV we’ve been waiting for? The revamped EV SUV was spotted with a stylish new look while filming a commercial. Toyota’s new C-HR EV SUV is launching in 2026 Toyota’s compact crossover SUV is returning in all-electric form, and it’s already apparently a movie star. We got […]
A group of US researchers has developed a wearable device capable of accurately tracking chloride ion levels in sweat, which is essential for evaluating hydration status and health conditions like “The wearable sensors we developed process sweat and track chloride ion levels in real time, directly on a subject’s body. “This gives researchers a lot […]
San Francisco, Philadelphia and others are retreating from “harm reduction” strategies that have helped reduce deaths but which critics, including Trump, say have contributed to pervasive public drug use.
An Africa copper mine is taking big steps towards modernizing and decarbonizing its copper mining operations and strengthening its partnerships with Beijing through the purchase and deployment of fully 31 electric haul trucks. The all-electric LiuGong DW105A-E haul trucks being deployed at the 15th Metallurgical Construction Group’s copper mine in Zambia are capable of moving […]
An awkward Tesla Robotaxi incident, where the “safety monitor” had to exit the vehicle in the middle of traffic to take the driver’s seat, suggests that Elon Musk’s company is prioritizing optics over safety. At Electrek, we have warned all year that the launch of Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ is more about optics, giving the impression that […]
Tesla released its larger, six-seat Model Y L in China one week ago, and now we’re starting to get an idea of what it’s capable of from the earliest reviews. Here at Electrek, we usually prefer to conduct our own reviews for cars, rather than reporting on the reviews of others. However, the Model Y […]
