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Electrek · Automotive

I bought a $199 Walmart e-bike, and what arrived shocked me ↗

I’ve tested e-bikes that cost $10,000. I’ve tested e-bikes that cost $500. But until recently, I’d never tested a brand-new e-bike that cost less than a nice set of bicycle tires. So when I stumbled across a $199 e-bike for sale through Walmart’s web

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Electrek · Automotive

Polestar and Oxford wired up drivers to measure how performance feels ↗

Polestar and the University of Oxford put 12 drivers in eye trackers and heart-rate monitors and sent them around a Swedish racetrack in two versions of the Polestar 4. The goal was to put numbers on something no spec sheet captures: how performance

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Electrek · Automotive

Priority’s fan-favorite Sauce bike just got a big electric upgrade ↗

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

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Electrek · Automotive

Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network ↗

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 uni

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Electrek · Automotive

Tesla (TSLA) proxy shows a board getting ready for a SpaceX merger ↗

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

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Electrek · Automotive

Boot this: BYD Denza B8 driver gets booted, doesn’t care [video] ↗

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

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Electrek · Automotive

Podcast: The Tesla Roadster episode ↗

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…

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Electrek · Automotive

This cool accessory turns your bike electric in just three seconds ↗

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 b

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Electrek · Automotive

Waymo picks Toronto as first Canadian city, targets riders in 2028 ↗

Waymo is bringing its robotaxis to Canada, and Toronto is first. Its cars will start driving the city’s streets in the coming days, and the company wants its first public riders on board in 2028. That makes Toronto Waymo’s fourth announced market out

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