EVgo announced today the acquisition of Recargo, a company better known for being behind PlugShare, a popular EV charging app. Over the years, PlugShare has become the go-to app for electric car owners looking to find charging stations. It is sort of the Yelp of EV charging. About seven out of 10 EV owners in
Lucid Motors has just shared details of its new vehicle service program called Lucid Care, along with anticipated details surrounding the warranty for new vehicles like the Air sedan. The luxury EV automaker plans to handle most maintenance through a fleet of mobile repair vans that come to you, wherever you are. Lucid Motors has
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Tesla has mysteriously removed the Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor from its Chinese configurator, which means that it has stopped taking new orders for the popular version of the electric car in China. The Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor has been the most consistent version of Tesla’s best-selling sedan. While the automaker has
Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is upgrading the Supercharger network from 250 kW to 300 kW max capacity in order to enable faster charging. Tesla has long been the leader when it comes to fast-charging electric vehicles. Its electric vehicles would charge at a faster rate than the competition and its extensive Supercharger network made
Drunk riding is a big problem with shared electric scooters. It’s just as illegal (and dumb) as drunk driving, but that hasn’t stopped scores of riders from engaging in the dangerous practice. And so now Bird is rolling out a new update that the company hopes will stump would-be inebriated scooter riders before they can
An Alaska state flag blows in the wind at the Robert B. Atwood Building in Anchorage, Alaska. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images These are tough times in Skagway, Alaska, population 1,183. “We’re in hard core survival mode,” Mayor Andrew Cremata told CNBC. In a normal summer, the Southeast Alaska town would be teeming
In this article VOW3-DE Technicians work in the final inspection line of German carmaker Volkswagen’s electric ID. 3 car in Dresden, Germany, June 8, 2021. Matthias Rietschel | Reuters Half of Volkswagen’s sales are expected to be battery-electric vehicles by 2030, the German carmaker said Tuesday. By 2040, the company said almost 100% of its
Investors may want to keep the antacid nearby. Long-term market bull Tony Dwyer sees near-term turbulence in connection with his “summer of indigestion” call. So, he’s encouraging investors to resist making any big moves right now. “We’ve had one heck of a run. It’s been an excessive run in the indices,” the Canaccord Genuity chief
An electric vehicle charging point in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Nathan Stirk | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.K. government said Wednesday it wanted to create a net zero transport sector by the year 2050, as it looked set to publish details of a long-awaited decarbonization plan later today. According to a news release from
The OPEC logo pictured ahead of an informal meeting between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algiers, Algeria. Ramzi Boudina | Reuters DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday arrived at a deal after a nearly two-week standoff over its future oil production levels,
Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images The planet’s demand for electricity is set for a strong rebound this year and next after dropping by approximately 1% in 2020, according to a new publication from the International Energy Agency. Released Thursday, the IEA’s Electricity Market Report forecasts that global electricity demand will jump by
Getty Images 8VC, the Austin, Texas-based venture capital firm run by Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, is partnering with Morgan Stanley-backed Lineage Logistics, a company known for its global network of temperature-controlled cold storage facilities, to double down on investments in the transportation and logistics sector. 8VC co-founder and partner Jake Medwell is joining Lineage in
Nikolay Storonsky, founder and CEO of Revolut, on stage at the 2019 Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Harry Murphy | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images LONDON — British fintech firm Revolut said Thursday it had raised $800 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank and Tiger Global. Revolut, which
Officials in Australia are describing shark attacks as “interactions” or “negative encounters” as part of a new strategy for helping the animals to be more understood. The change in language is part of an effort to overhaul public perception of the threatened species, with authorities and scientists keen to change their long-standing image as deadly,
A rescue operation is under way to find 14 construction workers trapped by a flood in a tunnel in southern China. Search and rescue crews are pumping out water in a bid to find the workers, who have been missing since the tunnel flooded around 3.30am local time on Thursday. A team of more than
Judges have ruled that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should have been given a shorter prison sentence. The former zookeeper was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin and violating wildlife laws. A three-judge panel for
More than half a million people in England were pinged by the NHS Test and Trace app in a week, the highest figure recorded. A total of 520,194 alerts were sent to users of the NHS COVID-19 app in the week to July 7, telling them they had been in close contact with someone who
Scientists have identified a new dinosaur genus following the analysis of a fossilised jawbone discovered over two decades ago in the Portell locality of Spain’s Castellón province. The styracosternan hadrosaurid dinosaur, scientists say, was likely six to eight metres long, a herbivore, and closely related to species found in modern-day China and Niger. The study
MPs have enjoyed more than £60,000 worth of freebies to COVID-19 test events this summer – including tickets to England’s games at Euro 2020. According to parliament’s latest register of interests, MPs have been given free tickets to football matches at Wembley, Wimbledon tennis, Royal Ascot and the Brit Awards. All have been part of