Every automotive era has its classics, designs that transcend spec sheets and sales figure and, somehow, become more culturally relevant with age. Now, nearly thirty years into the modern era, it feels like it’s time to ask the question: Which early EV will become the first classic car of the electric era? While many will […]
Tesla North America’s official account on X promoted a video interview of a new Cybertruck owner who says his ophthalmologist recommended he buy a Tesla with “Full Self-Driving” because he is losing his eyesight. The problem is that Tesla itself classifies FSD as a Level 2 driver-assist system that requires driver monitoring at all times […]
Cohen Miles-Rath heard voices telling him to kill his father. After they passed, he spent years retracing the path of his delusions.
In one of the largest real-world demonstrations of construction robots being used at utility-scale solar construction so far, a Maximo robot has completed the successful installation of 100 MW of solar capacity at the sprawling AES Bellefield solar complex. After completing the first half of the Bellefield complex last summer, Maximo engineers went into a […]
The human-head louse has a ghostly quality. It tends to glimmer in and out of view, leaving only subtle signs and omens of its presence. Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff? Was that a prickle on your scalp? Is it normal that your son is scratching just behind his […]
A physician prepares boxes of abortion pills to be sent patients from a Massachusetts clinic on 1 April 2025. Photograph: Sophie Park View image in fullscreen A physician prepares boxes of abortion pills to be sent patients from a Massachusetts clinic on 1 April 2025. Photograph: Sophie Park US abortion rate holds steady largely due […]
Foreign Ministers Badr Abdelatty of Egypt, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, Ishaq Dar of Pakistan and Hakan Fidan of Turkey meet to discuss regional de-escalation, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 29, 2026. Turkish Foreign Ministry | Via Reuters Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq […]
Photo: Brooklyn SolarWorks For the first time, a home battery is live on a New York City rooftop, opening the door for residential energy storage across the five boroughs. Brooklyn SolarWorks installed a 19.6-kilowatt-hour residential battery energy storage system (BESS) on a home in Chinatown, pairing it with a solar canopy. It’s the first time […]
With gas prices surging, driving an EV sounds even more attractive right about now. This month, several automakers are offering discounts of $10,000 or more on popular EVs, including the Hyundai IONIQ 5 and Chevy Equinox EV. Top-selling EVs with discounts of $10,000 or more Not only are EV drivers saving money at the pump […]
In 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 coming with minivan but cooler?, used EV sales rising, sodium batteries are coming, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, […]
