This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new e-bikes from Segway and Honda, South Park takes on e-bikes, Rivian’s e-bikes are rolling out to everyone except for customers, Royal Enfield’s e-moto gets a Western price, and more.
Geely says its new AI-powered fast charging system can reverse some of the battery damage caused by fast charging, using micro-pulse currents to add up to 20% more cycle life.
Charging a car in under 5 minutes is great, but not if it wears the battery out years early. Geely claims that its ‘Smart Charging’ addresses that and it is using something that sounds like sorcery.
Tesla officially launched high-volume production of the Tesla Semi last night at its new dedicated factory in Nevada, a plant it says can build 50,000 electric trucks per year.
The Class 8 truck was unveiled in 2017 with production promised for 2019. Seven years later, Tesla says deliveries “start now,” and it detailed a heavily redesigned truck in a 13-post thread on X.
Volkswagen’s electric minibus will not return for the 2027 model year as expected, after another delay.
Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” broke the speed limit in 55% of the 30 km/h segments a Belgian road safety group tested in Brussels, averaging 44 km/h where the legal limit is 30 km/h.
The results land less than two weeks before EU member states vote on approving FSD across the whole bloc. And speeding is exactly the issue Sweden and France have already flagged.
Building on its nearly 10-year history, Mercedes-Benz secured first rights to ProLogium’s latest Gen4 solid-state EV battery cells.
Being a one-car family works great right up until the moment two people need to be in two different places. Maybe your spouse took the car to work, but you need to grab groceries. Maybe you’ve got to pick up a kid from daycare. Perhaps you’re meeting a friend for coffee, heading to the gym, or just running some mundane errand that happens to require going a few miles across town.
Those are the moments when a second car starts sounding awfully convenient.
NHTSA has opened a formal investigation into comma.ai’s aftermarket driver assistance devices after five crashes where cars running openpilot plowed into stopped or slow-moving vehicles in their own lane. Two of those crashes killed three people.
The probe covers an estimated 30,000 comma three, comma 3X, and comma four devices. It’s the biggest regulatory problem for George Hotz’s startup since NHTSA pushed it to cancel its first product back in 2016.
Following right alongside the early Amazon Prime Day deals that are live, we’ve got two new Prime Day sales leading today’s Green Deals. First, there’s the massive Anker eufy Early Prime Day Sale with up to 46% savings on security and cleaning devices, like the SoloCam S340 Solar Security 4-Cam Pack with a HomeBase S380 and 1TB hard drive at a $620 low, among many others. Next is EcoFlow’s Prime Day + September Monthly Madness flash sale with two EcoCredit promotions alongside four power station deals starting from $938. We also spotted the EGO 56V 21-inch Cordless Electric Snow Blower with either 2x or 3x 5.0Ah batteries starting from $649, as well as the final days of Lectric’s XPress2 Long-Range Cruiser e-bike backorder bundle for a FREE $723 extra battery package at $1,399, a 40V Worx string trimmer 2x battery bundle, and more down below. There are also the hangover deals from the last few days that can be found down at the bottom of the page, like the yesterday’s exclusive $1,000 savings on Jackery’s 5,040Wh Explorer 5000 Plus power station to the $2,499 annual 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.
Kia’s off-road electric SUV might be real after all. New patent images reveal what could be the production version of the EV9 ADVNTR.