DeSantis vetoes unanimous e-bike safety bill for the most Florida reason ever

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed a bipartisan e-bike safety bill that would have introduced new rules for riders around pedestrians, effectively ending legislation that had passed both chambers of the state legislature unanimously.

BMW’s new iX5 leaks ahead of its debut with a unique look [Images]

BMW will officially unveil the iX5 on June 30, but we are already getting an early look after images leaked online.

Tesla starts FSD v14 ‘Lite’ rollout to HW3 cars

Tesla has started rolling out FSD v14 “Lite” to its Hardware 3 (HW3) cars, the company’s AI chief Ashok Elluswamy confirmed today. The build, firmware version 2026.20.5.1, is going out first to early-access drivers.

It’s the first major Full Self-Driving update for the roughly 4 million HW3 vehicles that had been frozen on FSD v12.6 since early 2025 — but it remains a supervised, hands-on Level 2 system.

Toyota points to high gas prices as sales in China plunge 30%, dragging down global results

The world’s top-selling automaker said rising gas prices and stiff competition in China were hurting demand after sales crashed 30% from last May.

New study shows how many millions would be saved by quicker EV adoption

The world could save 8.8 million lives through 2050 with a more ambitious path towards electification, according to a new study by the ICCT, the same organization which blew the whistle on VW’s Dieselgate scandal.

And given the scale of death and how avoidable it is, any group that actively works to slow EV adoption is functionally committing mass murder.

There’s a new e-bike motor and fast charging battery company in town

Gobao has officially taken the wraps off several new e-bike drive systems, but while the company’s new continuously variable transmission (eCVT) motors are certainly intriguing, it’s the batteries that may end up stealing the show.

Tesla batteries stolen from Giga Nevada 11+ times since December

Trailers loaded with millions of dollars of Tesla car and home batteries have been stolen straight from loading docks at the company’s Nevada operations at least 11 times since December, according to sheriff’s records.

Nine of the suspected cargo thefts happened in January alone, and a local detective investigating the cases calls the situation “an epidemic right now.”

Controversial Ferrari Luce EV is an instant sellout in China

All the controversy surrounding the launch of the first all-electric sedan to ever wear the Ferrari badge hasn’t slowed down sales any – every single Ferrari Luce allocated to the Chinese market is already spoken for.

Zero emission truck deployments SURGED up 37% in 2025 as momentum builds

CALSTART’s Zeroing in on Zero-Emission Trucks report is out, and the results are in: after getting off to a slow start in the first half of 2025, zero-emission truck deployment in the US picked up steam in the second half, climbing to 4.14% of all new deployments.

Survey Sunday: with nearly a trillion dollars, will Elon try to make things right?

Last week, we asked Electrek readers a simple whether they believed that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, after becoming the world’s first trillionaire, would finally make good on the ambitious promises he spent years making about accelerating sustainable energy, delivering unsupervised full self driving, building useful humanoid robots, and ultimately making humanity a multiplanetary species. After more than 3,300 responses, here’s what you told us.