Polestar launched the Polestar 4 SUV today, a new body style of its compact executive electric SUV that starts at €57,900 and delivers up to 630 km of WLTP range.

The bigger news for anyone who followed the original car: unlike the Polestar 4 coupé, the SUV has an actual rear window.

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The Department of Transportation says it’s ready to announce fuel economy standards that will raise average fuel costs by 45%, right as the world struggles with the effects of a war of choice that has spiked energy prices globally.

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Tesla has settled a wrongful death lawsuit over a 2023 crash in which a Model S on Autopilot slammed into a parked fire truck, killing the driver and seriously injuring his brother.

The confidential settlement, filed in California federal court, lets Tesla avoid a jury trial that would have put Elon Musk’s own Autopilot claims in front of jurors.

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Several Chinese owners of Tesla’s new Model Y L, the larger 3-row version of the popular Model Y, are going to Chinese social media to complain about suspension collapse issues – and it’s enough of a problem that fans have developed a “finger method” to test whether a vehicle is affected.

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Donut Lab has published a new independent test claiming its battery reached an energy density of 409 Wh/kg and 805 Wh/L, the first energy-density figure the company has put on record after months of scrutiny.

But the number lands against a promise the company has already broken: that this “solid-state” cell was in production and ready to power a production EV by the end of Q1 2026. It isn’t, and it wasn’t.

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Electric semi truck brand Windrose has developed an all-electric power take-off (PTO) that puts out up to 70 kW of power without burning a drop of diesel – and it could give his big BEV a real market advantage.

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US battery storage company NeoVolta Power has locked in five years’ worth of US-made battery cells from Seoul-headquartered SK On to help scale up NeoVolta’s Georgia factory.

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The Ford Fathom will go on sale in early 2027, starting at $28,350. With its official debut coming up, Ford revealed new footage of the electric pickup, offering our best look yet.

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New Jersey renters and apartment dwellers will soon be able to lower their electricity bills with solar panels that plug directly into a standard wall outlet – no roof required.

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After another record sales month and the launch of its new affordable EV3 electric SUV, Kia is on track for its fourth record-breaking annual sales year in the US.

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Tesla’s abrupt decision to kill its Solar Roof has left the third-party contractors who sold and installed the product absorbing the fallout — including some who told Electrek they sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the program and now have little to show for it.

Tesla stopped supplying the solar tiles in August, notifying its network of certified installers that it would ship only conventional solar panels going forward.

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The electric dirt bike/e-moto market has developed a pretty obvious split over the last few years. On one end, there’s a seemingly endless supply of inexpensive no-name machines with questionable components and varying levels of quality. On the other, there are legitimately impressive machines from established brands, but they tend to come with prices to match.

The new Juiced Nomadix R lands somewhere much more interesting in the middle, offering better quality components but at a price that competes well with the budget offerings. After spending several hours riding one off-road, I think Juiced may have just created one of the best performance-per-dollar electric dirt bikes on the market.

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We’ve got a week until Labor Day, which means there is still plenty of top savings to jump on from Amazon and elsewhere. Our headliner today is Velotric’s official Labor Day Sale with up to $550 e-bike savings, like the Discover 2 Comfort Commuter e-bike at a new $1,499 low...

The ID. California Cruise, Volkswagen’s first fully electric California camper, looks ready for your next adventure.

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Volvo launched a software update that gives the EX30 new capabilities, including the ability to power external electronics with vehicle-to-load (V2L).

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Waymo opened its driverless ride-hailing service to the general public in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa on Monday, bringing the Alphabet-owned company to 14 US cities.

Tens of thousands of people in each market had already signed up before the doors opened, and Waymo says it will let them in gradually over the coming weeks.

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A Tesla Model Y turning left at an intersection collided with a pickup truck in Batavia, Illinois, killing a passenger in the Tesla — Maggie Espinosa, 37, a teacher and mother of five. It was reported as an ordinary intersection crash.

But Electrek was able to confirm that Tesla’s own report to federal regulators says the car’s driver-assist system was engaged as it made that turn. This is part of an ongoing Electrek investigation matching reported crashes to Tesla’s redacted NHTSA data.

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Nissan is preparing to introduce a smaller, more affordable EV expected to launch as the “Wave” in early 2027, with prices starting under $25,000.

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Tesla has a packed September ahead of it, with two confirmed and one rumored product launches. For a company that has gone so long without new products, it would be a big month… if all three of those products hadn’t been launched years ago already.

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Tesla reports its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” crashes to the federal government, as it’s required to — and then blacks out almost everything in those reports, so the public never learns what happened in those crashes. Tesla always end up blaming the driver.

We’re matching those redacted reports, one by one, to real fatal crashes that were covered in the news as ordinary accidents. This is a running investigation, and we’ll add each crash we confirm to this page. You can view this as an investigative hub keeping track of our ongoing investigation.

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The US battery storage market just posted its biggest quarter ever, adding 20.2 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of new capacity in Q2 2026.

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On today’s hard-working episode of Quick Charge, we tip our collective hat to Apple CEO Tim Cook on his last day at work before taking a look at Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto’s approach to the compact truck market, and ponder its chances against The House That Henry Built.

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San Francisco has launched a citywide curbside EV charging program, giving companies a clear path to install public chargers in neighborhoods across the city.

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Weeks after a Tesla Model 3 sat stopped in a live Florida interstate lane and its driver was killed, it happened again — a 2020 Model 3, stopped dead on a Phoenix-area freeway at 3 a.m., rear-ended by a pickup, its driver dead at the scene.

And as in the Florida case that we revealed today, no one investigating knew what Tesla’s own data shows: the car’s driver-assist system was engaged. This is part of an ongoing Electrek series matching previously reported Tesla crashes to the company’s own redacted NHTSA data.

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Volkswagen is preparing to introduce its next-generation electric SUV soon. The electric Tiguan will serve as a successor to the ID.4 and ID.5, bringing more than just a new name.

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A 43-year-old man died when his Tesla Model 3, stopped in a live lane of Interstate 4, was rear-ended by a semi. Florida troopers said they couldn’t explain why the car was stopped in the middle of the highway.

Tesla’s own data can explain it, the car’s driver-assist system was engaged, but the company has sealed it. This is part of an ongoing Electrek series where we match unexplained fatal crashes with Tesla’s own redacted data on ADAS crashes.

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We’re hitting the ground running this week as Amazon’s Labor Day Sale event is in full swing, with our Green Deals headlined today by many of its offers, like the Segway ZT3 Pro All-Terrain Electric Scooter down at $850. There’s also the 2,010Wh Anker SOLIX S2000 Portable P...

The ability to avoid potholes while on FSD is “coming soon,” according to an update posted by Tesla CEO Elon Musk over the weekend. It would be great news for Tesla drivers, if we hadn’t heard that exact same thing before.

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Toyota is breaking its own rules and will build a new electric vehicle in China before Japan, using advanced tech.

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Rivian CFO Claire McDonough is stepping down effective October 30, leaving after nearly six years to become chief financial officer of energy giant GE Vernova.

The departure lands at the most important moment in Rivian’s history — the ramp of the R2, the $45,000-to-$58,000 SUV the entire company is betting on.

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