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Text • Reinette LeJeune

EGO 21-inch electric Select Cut and Touch Drive mower + 2x batteries new $527 low, Jackery power stations up to 50% off, more

Leading this week’s Monday Green Deals is a new all-time low price on the popular EGO Power+ 56V 21-inch Cordless Electric Select Cut and Touch Drive Self-Propelled Lawn Mower with 2x 4.0Ah batteries for $527 (saving you $252). Right behind that, we have Jackery’s latest Su...

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Text • Peter Johnson

Ford’s new EV pickup caught at a Tesla Supercharger

Ford’s upcoming midsize electric pickup will start at around $30,000 with a native NACS port to recharge at Tesla Superchargers.

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Text • Arin Waichulis

Principia is here to win, and it won’t hesitate to help others do the same

The sun has just about risen on this year’s Electrek Formula Sun Grand Prix (FSGP), the pre-qualifying race before the renowned American Solar Challenge. FSGP officially kicks off tomorrow morning for the teams that have passed rigorous safety and quality checks, ...

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Text • Micah Toll

Will we soon see sodium-ion batteries on electric bikes?

For the last couple of years, sodium-ion batteries have been one of the most talked-about “next big things” in the battery world. They promise lower costs, improved safety, and reduced dependence on critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Naturally, that has led many riders to wonder whether the next generation of electric bicycles could ditch lithium altogether.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Genesis may bring a more affordable luxury EV to the mass market

Genesis is going on the offensive as the Korean luxury brand expands into new segments.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Toyota’s next-gen Corolla EV takes center stage as a ‘sense of crisis’ reshapes the company

The world’s best-selling car of all time is going electric. Toyota’s next-generation Corolla EV will debut on a new platform as “a considerable sense of crisis” forces the company to reinvent itself.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Florida AG asks court to erase Tesla’s $243M Autopilot crash verdict

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a federal appeals court to wipe out the $243 million verdict a Miami jury handed Tesla over a fatal Autopilot crash.

The attorneys general of Alabama and Georgia joined the July 9 brief, which asks the 11th Circuit to throw out the judgment entirely — or, failing that, cut the $200 million punitive award down to three times compensatory damages.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Order up: Janus Electric set to convert 67 diesel trucks to battery-swap EVs

Australian conversion experts Janus Electric are celebrating a series of orders that will see the company convert 67 Class 8 heavy-duty freight and drayage trucks from diesels to advanced, battery-swap electric vehicles.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla remote operator crashed a ‘Robotaxi’ in Houston, NHTSA data shows

Tesla has filed four new “Robotaxi” crash reports with NHTSA, and the most revealing one involves a Tesla remote operator driving the vehicle into a tree stump in Houston.

It’s the third crash Tesla has now reported involving a human operating the car remotely caused the collision — and the first one Tesla has formally coded as remote operation in its filing.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Chinese Wuling Bingo could come to North America as an entry-level Chevy EV

The Geo Metro has reached legendary status among hyper-milers and fuel efficiency fans, and if the rumors are to be believed, it could be getting a spiritual successor in the form of a Chevy-badged Wuling Bingo EV for global markets.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Survey Sunday: is Slate Auto’s affordable electric truck going to make it?

For the last few weeks, we’ve been running a sidebar survey asking Electrek readers if they thought the new, affordable Slate electric truck was going to succeed in the ultra-competitive US market. After receiving nearly 3,000 responses, here’s what you told us.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Pilot hits new EV milestone with 300th DC fast charging location

Pilot travel centers are welcoming America’s summer road trippers with a number of new locations, an expanded, “coast-to-coast” EV charging network that offers 24/7 convenience and healthier c-store snacks and menu items.

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Text • Jo Borrás

New 6 passenger, 780-mile PHEV from GM has North America written all over it

GM thinks its newest Starlight L PHEV SUV could be China’s best value hybrid, offering 260 km (~160 miles) of all-electric range, spacious six-passenger seating, and a modern technology package at an affordable price. And it’s exactly the kind of vehicle that the company could try to rebadge for North America

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Text • Jo Borrás

LiuGong brings electric heavy equipment options to North America [video]

This week, Chinese equipment brand LiuGong officially launched its battery-electric equipment and material handling asset portfolio in the United States and Canada, making it easier than ever for construction and forestry crews to decarbonize their fleets.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Honda goes all-in on EVs in a multibillion dollar market: commercial lawnmowers

Honda Automobile dealers will have to wait a little longer for a self-driving EV that seriously worry Tesla or GM – but Honda Power Equipment dealers are playing in a multibillion market, too, and they have an advanced, autonomous, and all-electric vehicle arriving right now.

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Text • Micah Toll

New HMP Flash brings affordable 75 MPH electric scooters to the US

Electric scooters are everywhere in much of Europe and Asia, but they’ve always remained something of an oddity in the US market. While American riders have recently embraced electric bicycles and, to a measurably smaller extent, electric motorcycles, traditional seated scooters have struggled to gain traction in North America. Now San Francisco-based HMP Bikes is hoping to change that with its new HMP Flash, a high-performance electric scooter designed from the ground up for riders who rack up serious mileage. 

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Text • Jameson Dow

Trump’s dumb idea to tariff Canada over smoke could set a useful precedent

The latest dumb, hypocritical “idea” to come out of the idiot running the US into the ground could actually set the precedent we need to solve climate change. Hear me out for a minute.

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Text • Peter Johnson

BMW i3 Touring caught for the first time, and that wagon rear is hard to miss

After the sedan version launched last month, the new BMW i3 Touring was captured for the first time with its wagon tail on display.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Podcast: TSLA shareholders wake up, Xpeng targets EU, VW goes cheaper, and more

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla shareholders potentially starting to wake up, Xpeng targeting the European market, VW going cheaper with its EVs, and more.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Toyota is offering $3,000 if you trade in your old EV for its new electric SUV

Toyota’s new bZ electric SUV is nearly outselling the Prius this year. With an extra $3,000 off if you trade in your old EV in California, it might be worth checking out.

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Text • Reinette LeJeune

EcoFlow brings back Prime Day power station pricing in sale from $169, Segway Xafari e-bike $1,550 low, EGO Multi-Head, more

We’re closing out this week’s Green Deals with an EV-heavy edition, though our headliner is EcoFlow’s second phase Outdoor Season Sale with returning Prime Day Pricing on power stations + multiple FREE gift tiers – all starting from $169. Right behind that, we have Segway’s...

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Text • Jameson Dow

In the birthplace of the automobile, electric cars are now king

For the first time, battery electric vehicles were the most popular powertrain in Germany in June, setting a new sales record as the birthplace of the automobile moves forward into the next stage of its evolution.

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Text • Peter Johnson

BYD unveils its latest luxury EV with sleek fastback styling and 570 miles of range

BYD revealed the new Denza Z9S, a high-tech luxury electric sedan that can drive over 570 miles (920 km) on a single charge.

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Text • Micah Toll

How getting a Garmin watch changed my e-biking (and my fitness lifestyle)

I’m not usually the kind of person who gets excited about wearing a watch. But I am apparently the kind of person who paces around my living room at a quarter to midnight because a tiny computer on my wrist informed me I was 200 steps short of today’s goal.

So here we are, with the story of how I got a Garmin watch to better analyze my bike riding (and my running), and ended up learning to love that cute little bully that now lives on my wrist.

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Text • Peter Johnson

Volkswagen’s new ID. Polo EV secured 25,000 orders in weeks — Now, it’s even cheaper

Volkswagen opened pre-orders for the ID. Polo with the smaller 37 kWh battery, starting at under $30,000. The lower-priced model arrives after Volkswagen’s new EV received 25,000 orders weeks after it went on sale.

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla launches in Latvia and Uruguay, expanding on two continents

Tesla opened two new markets in less than 24 hours, launching in Latvia and Uruguay in back-to-back announcements this week.

The dual entry completes Tesla’s expansion across all three Baltic states and gives the automaker its third market in South America — two very different markets that show how the company is chasing growth wherever it can find it.

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Text • Micah Toll

Wheel-E Podcast: New Tern HSD, 65 MPH ‘e-bike’, Segway Xaber review, more

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-bike launches from Tern, Trek, Momentum, and Ariel Rider, reviews of the Infinite Machine Olto and Segway Xaber, and more.

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Text • Jo Borrás

Mick Murray’s hybrid haulers move more freight with fewer fumes

No matter how you slice it, there just aren’t enough drivers to move all the freight (and autonomous just isn’t ready). In the US, the industry is chasing higher payloads to bridge the gap, but in Australia, they’re taking a different approach: massive, multi-trailer hybrid road trains.

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Text • Seth Weintraub

Segway Xaber review: The mall-cop company just built a better Sur Ron for less money

When you think of Segway, you might still think of the self-balancing personal transporters that mall cops and tour groups employ to get around. The company, however, since being acquired by Beijing-based Ninebot a decade ago, has morphed into E-bikes, e-scooters, go-karts, off-road UTVs — the company has been stacking up two- and four-wheeled hardware for a while now. But with the recent launch of the new Xaber, however, they are now into very serious 60+mph-capable electric off-road motorcycles.

We’ve spent the last month with the Xaber and, after dining on a bunch of bargain emotos, the Segway Ninebot Xaber almost seems to be in a class by itself…

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Text • Fred Lambert

Tesla finally launches a bike — but it’s not what fans wanted

Tesla fans have spent years begging the company to build an e-bike. Tesla just launched a bike — and it has no motor, no pedals, and it’s for toddlers.

The new “Balance Bike for Kids” sells for $225 on Tesla’s online shop, and it’s aimed at children aged 2 to 5.