Ferrari Luce first look: going where combustion can’t follow

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Ferrari unveiled the Luce today in Rome, completing a three-act reveal that started with specs last October and continued with the Jony Ive-designed interior in February. The Italian automaker flew me to Rome for the launch, and I got about 30 minutes to explore the vehicle up close, though I couldn’t drive it.

What I found was a car that challenges just about every assumption of what a Ferrari should look like, who should sit in it, and how it should sound, while being unmistakably, stubbornly Ferrari in the ways that matter most: emotions.

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Honda’s affordable EV hot hatch is ‘selling like hotcakes,’ priced at $21,000

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Starting at about $21,000, Honda said the electric hot hatch is already exceeding expectations with over 7,000 preorders.

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Bluetti exclusive Memorial Day power station lows from $237, EcoFlow 48-hour flash sale on 716Wh to 12.2kWh power stations, more

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It’s Memorial Day, and as such, we have a larger number of Green Deals that you can shop from today through the rest of the week, with some new additions down below, as well as those and all the other Green Deals from past weeks collected into our one-stop-shopping hub here. Among the new additions, we have Bluetti’s official Memorial Day Sale lineup, with plenty of exclusive yearly lows, thanks to our bonus savings codes – all starting from $237. There’s also EcoFlow’s 48-hour Memorial Day flash sale that is part of the ongoing RV Season Sale, with four power station units of 716Wh to 12.2kWh capacities starting from $349, as well as Jetson’s compact Bolt Pro e-bike at a new $350 low, the Autel MaxiCharger AC Lite Home 40A Level 2 EV Charger at its $319 low, and more.

Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.

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These Dutch students are bringing a world champion solar car to the 2026 Electrek American Solar Challenge

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This July, the 2026 Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP) and American Solar Challenge (ASC) head north to Minnesota, and one of the 46 registered teams is making the trip for the very first time. The Delft Solar Team is flying in from the Netherlands, and they aren’t exactly showing up empty-handed.

I caught up with Rosa Van Wijngaarden, who runs PR for the team, to talk about who they are, what they’re driving, and what it’s like to prep for a race on a continent the team has never set wheels on.

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BYD turned its luxury EV into a Swiss auto piece of jewelry, and it sold for a record $800,000+

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The Denza Z9 GT Chopard Edition is infused with gold accents, rare gemstones, and BYD’s new Flash Charging system, enabling it to recharge as quickly as refueling.

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What is a bike bus and why are parents loving them so much?

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For years, the school drop-off line has been one of the defining rituals of suburban life: a long queue of idling SUVs inching toward the curb while stressed parents try to make it to work on time and kids stare at their phones in the back seat.

But in a growing number of communities around the world, another option is starting to catch on: the bike bus.

And parents are absolutely loving it.

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Musk abandoned his own ‘solar electric economy’ to burn gas for an AI chatbot no one uses

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Elon Musk spent years telling the world that solar power was the obvious answer to Earth’s energy needs — that a small patch of desert could power the entire United States. Now, he’s burning millions of tons of fossil fuels to run an AI chatbot that has lost 60% of its downloads, selling the unused compute to a company he called “misanthropic and evil” three months ago, and pitching space-based solar panels right as SpaceX files for a $2 trillion IPO.

The contradictions are stacking up faster than xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines.

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Memorial Day Green Deals hub – EVs, power stations, electric tools, devices, and much more

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If you missed the nationwide memo, today is Memorial Day, and as we spend this time with family and friends, remembering our fallen service members, so too are our favorite brands for a wide variety of eco-friendly tech offering tons of seasonal discounts across e-bikes, electric scooters, power stations, tools, appliances, smart devices, and more – many of which are at their best prices to date. We’ve collected all the ongoing deals together into this one-stop shopping hub to make things easier to find, and we will continue to update this hub for the next couple days, too. So head on down below to browse through all these Green Deals while they’re still around.

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LiveWire’s 125cc-equivalent electric fun bikes begin revealing their secrets

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We’re finally starting to learn more about LiveWire’s upcoming S4 Honcho electric motorcycles as the company begins showing off pre-production prototypes around the US ahead of launch.

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Tesla now calls FSD ‘Tesla Assisted Driving’ in China – a more truthful name

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Tesla has once again changed the name of its “FSD” system in China, using a more truthful name for the system in the world’s largest auto market.

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