Toyota’s best-selling Corolla is going electric, and it will be made in China
By Peter Johnson
Toyota will produce the Corolla EV in China starting in 2028, alongside hybrid and gas-powered versions. more…
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Priority’s fan-favorite Sauce bike just got a big electric upgrade
By Micah Toll
Priority Bicycles has spent the last decade proving that bicycles don’t need to be complicated to be good. Now the New York-based bicycle company is taking one of its more playful pedal bikes and giving it the electric treatment with the new Priority E-Sauce. more…
The Volvo EX60 delivered more driving range in the real world, covering over 350 miles
By Peter Johnson
The new Volvo EX60 has an EPA-estimated range of 312 miles, but in real-world conditions, it drove over 350 miles without stopping. more…
Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network
By Fred Lambert
Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago. Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive unit also known as Newcool, signed a strategic cooperation framework with CATL and its swap subsidiary CAES on Monday. CATL’s Choco-swap network already counts 2,520 stations across about 200 Chinese cities. more…
Foxconn pays $727M for half of Mitsubishi Electric’s car parts unit in EV push
By Fred Lambert
Foxconn is buying half of Mitsubishi Electric’s auto parts business for ¥115 billion ($727 million), its biggest bet yet on turning years of EV promises into a real car business. But the target, Mitsubishi Electric Mobility, isn’t an EV company. It’s a traditional Tier 1 supplier that makes everything from alternators and ignition coils to radar sensors, with a smaller electric powertrain business attached. more…
GM just revealed an electric drive 3500 dually with VERY limited color options
By Jo Borrás
GM just took the wraps off the electric-drive pickup America’s commercial fleets have been waiting for: a one-ton chassis, dually rear axle and massive capability baked in. The best part? You can have it in any color you want — as long as it’s Army green. more…
Subaru’s next EV will be smarter, more efficient, and less like a Toyota
By Peter Johnson
Subaru is testing its own tech for its next-generation EVs, breaking away from its longstanding partnership with Toyota. more…
Tesla (TSLA) proxy shows a board getting ready for a SpaceX merger
By Fred Lambert
Tesla’s proxy for its 2026 annual meeting, filed today, confirms that one of its supposedly independent directors now sits on SpaceX’s board. Ira Ehrenpreis, who chairs both Tesla’s compensation committee and its governance committee, joined SpaceX’s board in February. That’s one of several details in the filing that line up with a Tesla-SpaceX merger. There’s a three-item ballot, an auto-voting program that kicks in for the next vote, and Musk pay terms that pay out on a deal price alone. more…
Why this major e-bike brand just started selling battery-less electric bikes
By Micah Toll
Buying an e-bike without a battery might sound a little like buying a car without a motor. But that’s exactly what Minnesota-based e-bike company Monarc is now offering – and there’s actually a pretty good reason for it. more…
Boot this: BYD Denza B8 driver gets booted, doesn’t care [video]
By Jo Borrás
The plug-in hybrid BYD Denza B8 didn’t set the sales charts on fire, but its high-tech suspension promised a smooth ride across just about any terrain, adjusting damping and ride height while independently controlling hydraulic pressure at each wheel. It’s a neat trick, but one driver has figured out a whole new use for it: avoiding traffic boots. more…
From excavators to hypercars, these LEGO kits were made for EV fans (2026)
By Jo Borrás
Over the past few years, LEGO has quietly added an impressive array of plug-powered machines to its block-based lineup, from hybrid racers to battery-powered excavators and garbage trucks. We’ve rounded them up here. more…
PGE gets it: electric semi trucks provide HEAVY DUTY backup for the grid [video]
By Jo Borrás
Oregon utility Portland General Electric (“PGE”) is highlighting the environmental, health, and grid benefits to electrifying medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, calling the battery-backed big rigs “batteries on wheels.” more…
Tiny Titan: new residential battery system from EcoFlow starts small
By Jo Borrás
EcoFlow is hoping to make a titanic splash with its new, smaller (but scalable!) residential energy storage lineup that the company is calling a more approachable entry point to its backup battery offerings. more…
E-quipment highlight: LEAPTING launches electric autonomous forklift
By Jo Borrás
Chinese PV and solar equipment brand LEAPTING has taken the wraps off its new, battery-powered Auto-Navigation Forklift Robot (AFR) designed to speed up the installation of large, utility-scale solar power projects. more…
Electric Mercedes-AMG GT SUV unveiled with 1,153 hp and 710 kW charging
By Fred Lambert
Mercedes-AMG has unveiled the GT SUV, an all-electric performance SUV with up to 1,153 hp from three axial-flux motors and DC fast charging at up to 710 kW. It’s AMG’s answer to the Porsche Cayenne Electric, and on paper, it may be more impressive. The first units hit US dealerships in summer 2027. more…
This Montréal airport now has 120 EV chargers, with 48 more on the way
By Michelle Lewis
Montréal Metropolitan Airport now has 120 EV chargers online, with another 48 on the way as the airport expands. more…
Podcast: The Tesla Roadster episode
By Fred Lambert
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we’ll focus on the Tesla Roadster unveiling, but we may also cover a few other topics. more…
Trouble: buyers would rather wait for Chinese EVs than buy Western ones
By Jameson Dow
Canadian EV customers are delaying buying decisions while they wait for more Chinese EVs to reach their shores, according to a new survey, suggesting widespread awareness of China’s EV dominance is causing EV buyers to ignore Western automakers’ offerings entirely. more…
Lectric treats riders with up to $762 e-bike savings in spooky sale, Worx snow blower, Jackery 1,024Wh V2 power station, more
By Reinette LeJeune
Closing out this week’s Green Deals is Lectric’s freshly launched Spooky Sale with up to $762 e-bike bundle savings (that include two FREE mystery gifts) starting from $999. Right behind that group of treats is the Worx 40V 20-inch Cordless Electric Snow Thrower with 2x 6.0Ah batteries down at $395, as well as the Jackery HomePower 1000 V2 1,024Wh Portable Power Station for $549 that is part of the brand’s Power Outage Ready Sale lineup. We also rounded up a bunch of Greenworks chainsaw deals, like the 24V 6-inch Cordless Electric Mini Chainsaw at $95, and spotted the first Amazon deal on Bou…
Tesla driver says he was asleep on FSD when he hit CHP car, 2 officers hurt
By Fred Lambert
Two California Highway Patrol officers are recovering from serious injuries after a Tesla drove into their patrol car at a crash scene on Interstate 80 in Fairfield. The 22-year-old driver told investigators he was asleep with Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” engaged. CHP released dashcam video of the impact on Thursday. It’s the latest Tesla to plow into an emergency scene, a failure federal regulators started investigating five years ago. more…
Volkswagen is recalling ‘several thousand’ EVs, including the ID.4, and not just in the US
By Peter Johnson
Volkswagen is set to recall “several thousand” electric vehicles, including the ID.4 and ID. Buzz. The company is urging owners to limit charging to 80% until a fix is available. more…
Kia launches first-of-its-kind remote driving car-sharing service with the PV5 EV van
By Peter Johnson
Kia launched a first-of-its-kind remote car-sharing program in Korea using the PV5 electric van. more…
Solar panels are bringing idle cranberry bogs back to life
By Michelle Lewis
Two Massachusetts cranberry bogs that had stopped making financial sense to farm are growing berries again – with solar panels overhead helping pay the bills. more…
This cool accessory turns your bike electric in just three seconds
By Micah Toll
There are plenty of e-bike conversion kits designed to turn your existing bicycle electric, but most involve at least a bit of wrenching. Spiny 2 takes a different approach, using a removable friction-drive system that can apparently snap onto your bike in just three seconds. more…
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