Electric Vehicle

Tesla Model Y Big Family Test: Mostly Good, But There Might Be One Death Star–Type Weakness

I noticed recently that El Paso, Texas, got a Tesla showroom. This is good news for the whole region, because you’d previously have to drive to Phoenix, Dallas, or Denver to check one out in person. The city has had a service center for a long time, but adding a showroom made it a lot

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Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus becomes even more competitive in China

Tesla just made the Model 3 Standard Range Plus more competitive in China. As per a recent announcement on its official Weibo account, Tesla China revealed that the entry-level, locally-made all-electric sedan is receiving a price cut of RMB 15,000. This would make the vehicle cost about RMB 235,900 after incentives are applied.  “Effective immediately,

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Opinion: Why Software Is the Key to Developing Safe Autonomous Vehicles

Radar Lets Us See the Way To the Future Story by Steven Hong It’s hardware & software under the sheetmetal The race to get autonomous vehicles (AVs) safely to market is tighter than ever, and the battle is now between software and hardware improvements. While many companies have bet on lidar, there’s still a lot

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Next Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-In Hybrid will have more range, three rows of seating

Mitsubishi confirmed on Thursday that its next-generation version of the Outlander Plug-In Hybrid is coming soon—bound for its home market of Japan by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and headed to the U.S. in the second half of 2022. When it arrives it will have at least one significant advantage over the

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The Detroit Bikes E-Sparrow Electric Bike — CleanTechnica Review

Detroit Bikes was built on top of the well-worn foundation of decades of American manufacturing in Detroit, Michigan to bring not just American-designed, but American-made bicycles back to the United States. The company takes great pride in its work and not just because of the jobs it creates. Detroit Bikes takes pride in its work

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The Lectric Step-Thru 2.0 Folding E-Bike — CleanTechnica Review

The team over at Lectric eBikes in Phoenix, Arizona is hell bent on making electric bikes affordable and functional for the masses. The Lectric XP and Lectric Step-Thru were launched at a bargain price of just $899 a bit less than 2 years ago and having shipped more than 70,000 of the bikes to date,

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Tesla Model S Plaid takes its place as production EV king with Porsche Taycan Turbo S beatdown

Very, very few cars can make the Porsche Taycan Turbo S look like it’s standing still in a quarter-mile race, but here we are. While the Taycan Turbo S is already unnervingly fast, all it apparently takes for Porsche’s flagship all-electric performance car to look like a slow car in the drag strip is a

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The Rad Power Bikes RadRunner E-Bike — CleanTechnica Review

Rad Power Bikes’ RadRunner is a compact cruiser of an electric bike that packs a massive amount of fun and functionality into a smaller, more affordable package. At its core, the RadRunner is a single-speed electric utility bike built on a heavy duty low-step frame with a ton of ways to customize it to suit

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The Adventures Of Mr. Me & His Noble Steed Colin — A Firm CrossClimate Tread To An Elusive Point D

The following is part fact (Michelin CrossClimate+ data) and part fiction (feature request hint to Tesla), and just my way of getting boring information across in a hopefully not so boring way. Mr. Me: me. Colin: 2019 Model 3 Long Range RWD named after a small security guard robot in Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide

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