BYD’s first electric kei car received over 1,000 orders in just two weeks after it went on sale. BYD Racco EV orders reach over 1,000 in two weeks BYD is going where no foreign brand has gone before. The Chinese EV giant officially launched Racco on July 28, its first electric kei vehicle, specifically designed […]
If you’ve spotted one of Monarc’s new e-bikes, there’s a good chance one of your first thoughts was, “Wait… did they install the fork backwards?” The answer is no, it’s not really on backward – despite how it may look. Monarc just uses what’s known as a reverse-arch suspension fork, a design that’s uncommon in […]
‘Patients will need doctors who can stand apart from the machine long enough to know when it is wrong, incomplete, or right for the wrong reason.’ Photograph: gorodenkoff/Getty Images/iStockphoto View image in fullscreen ‘Patients will need doctors who can stand apart from the machine long enough to know when it is wrong, incomplete, or right […]
On any other day when the high was forecast to be 108 degrees, Susie Tyson would not have left her Las Vegas apartment. The stroke she’d had at 30 made her sensitive to the heat, she found; at 67, going out during Nevada’s hottest months would make her dizzy, nauseous, and, in her words, “hurting […]
Shares of Australia’s Sunrise Energy Metals jumped as much as 29% on Monday after the rare earth miner secured a $400 million investment in long-term debt financing from the U.S. to support the development of the world’s first primary mine for scandium. The Trump administration’s backing for Sunrise comes as major economies seek to shore […]
The newly-formed Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, created from a merger of North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, has launched its new website, built on the LocalNHS Drupal open-source digital platform. LocalNHS Drupal is said to build on the success of being in use across more than 60 councils […]
The ExxonMobil and Chevron company logos are displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on July 24, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Big Oil enjoyed a blockbuster profit windfall in the second quarter. A key question now is whether the industry will use […]
This frame grab taken from AFPTV video footage on July 12, 2026 shows a cargo ship anchoring near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan. – | Afp | Getty Images Oil rose Monday, as traders continue to assess mixed signals from the U.S. and Iran […]
For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey how (or if) Electrek readers think the first Chinese electric cars will make it onto US roads. After receiving more than 3,000 responses, here’s what you told us. In case you missed the survey, the question read, “With Canada’s new canola for cars deal bringing […]
Chinese autonomy experts Pony.ai are planning to put 1,000 autonomous electric commercial trucks to work by 2027, but it’s the company’s plans to put 100,000 self-driving trucks on the road by 2030 that’s making headlines. Thought not particularly well-known in the US, Pony.ai has been developing autonomous trucks in China and the Middle East since […]
