Texas children’s hospital in Houston on 7 February 2024. Photograph: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Texas children’s hospital in Houston on 7 February 2024. Photograph: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images Texas children’s hospital to create first detransition clinic in win for Trump One of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US will pay […]
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 updates to Tesla Robotaxi, Rivian R2 configurator going live, China taking over EU factories, and more. Today’s episode is sponsored by GM Energy. If you want to experience more resilience and control over […]
We are ending this week’s Green Deals with a jam-packed bang, led by the weekend flash sale on Heybike’s flagship Ranger 3.0 Pro Comfort Folding Fat Tire e-bike and a FREE $257 bundle of gear at the $1,399 low for the first time since Black Friday. Right behind that, we spotted Amazon dropping the price […]
The Trump administration has authorized a test program to see if the cannabis compound can ease some symptoms and reduce health care costs among older patients.
Through its new “preferred pricing program,” BMW and MINI drivers can receive a 20% discount on all EV charging sessions now through the end of September. BMW launches preferred EV charging pricing at IONNA Starting today, BMW said drivers can automatically receive 20% off charging sessions at IONNA stations in the US by simply using […]
Rivian has opened the online configurator for the R2, its critical mid-size electric SUV, giving reservation holders their first chance to spec out the vehicle ahead of deliveries. The Performance trim starts at $57,990 — just under Tesla’s Model Y Performance at $58,880. The configurator launch comes ahead of Rivian’s previously communicated June timeline, signaling […]
The first electric GTI is finally here. Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Polo GTI, a sporty 222-horsepower EV hot hatch that will start at around $45,000. Volkswagen ID. Polo GTI debuts as first electric hot hatch 50 years after launching the first Golf GTI in 1976, Volkswagen is taking the iconic badge into a new era […]
Tesla has quietly unredacted all 17 of its autonomous driving crash narratives filed with NHTSA, revealing for the first time what actually happened in each incident. The automaker had been the only ADS operator to fully redact its crash reports, marking every single narrative as “confidential business information.” The data shows what we always suspected: […]
China and the United States have provided critical support to the oil market and helped ease the huge supply disruption in the Middle East and kept energy prices from surging even higher. The oil market has lost about 10 million barrels per day (bpd) of exports from the Persian Gulf due to Iran’s blockade of […]
Uber is publicly trashing its robotaxi partner Waymo while simultaneously investing more than $10 billion to build its own autonomous vehicle fleet with Rivian, Lucid, and Nuro. The ride-hailing giant’s executives have spent the last few months taking direct shots at Waymo’s technology and deployment strategy — even as Waymo vehicles still operate on Uber’s […]