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Voodin Blade Technology In a first, German startup Voodin Blade Technology just installed wooden blades on a prototype wind turbine. Voodin Blade Technology made the 9.3-meter (63.3-foot) wooden blades specifically out of laminated veneer lumber (LVL), and installed them on an existing wind turbine in Breuna, Germany, near the city of Kassel. According to the National Renewable Energy

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GM luxury brand Cadillac has yet to give up on its plans to go electric by the end of the decade, but that strategy has wavered to the point where it might also include combustion vehicles, at least for the foreseeable future. Cadillac’s global vice president recently told reporters that the company has plans for

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Wales is to get its own version of talent show The Voice, it has been announced. The series named Y Llais (Welsh for The Voice) will be presented by Radio 1 DJ Sian Eleri. The Boom Cymru-produced show will make its debut on S4C next year. Opera star Sir Bryn Terfel has been announced as

Summer is coming in hot, and the impending heat is set to once again break the prior year’s record-breaking temperatures. For gas motorcycle riders, a scorching hot planet isn’t the only immediate source of discomfort outside. The benefit of riding electric is two-fold… The cold hard truth: electric motorbikes are the future First, and I

Four senior BBC newsreaders have begun legal action against the corporation on grounds of sex and age discrimination and equal pay. Martine Croxall, Annita McVeigh, Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera are attending a two-day preliminary hearing in central London which is laying out the groundwork for a full tribunal against the corporation. The women, who have

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after Elon Musk came in like a wrecking ball and fired the whole charing team. As reported earlier today and since confirmed by many departing Tesla employees, Elon Musk has fired Tesla’s entire charging team. In an email announcing the move, the CEO said that Tesla would continue

Just after laying off “more than 10%” of its global workforce, Tesla is laying off even more employees – including senior executives and long-time veterans of the company, most notably the entire Supercharging team and the executive responsible for negotiating NACS adoption across the industry. Tesla started the week before last with news of a huge

Francis Ngannou’s 15-month-old son Kobe has died, the mixed martial artist and boxer has confirmed in a social media post. The 37-year-old fighter posted a photo of his son on X on Monday evening, with the date of Kobe’s death marked as Saturday 27 April. “Too soon to leave but yet he’s gone,” Ngannou wrote

Photo: Ford Ford Pro is now taking orders for the newest version of its commercial EV, the E-Transit, with up to 32% more range and faster charge times. The 2024 E-transit‘s larger 89 kWh battery (up from 67 kWh) provides an estimated range of up to 159 miles. Ford says that makes it capable of

A TV doctor who gave free Botox to a patient in return for sex at his clinic has been struck off. Dr Tijion Esho, who has featured on ITV’s This Morning, BBC’s Morning Live and E4’s Body Fixers, denied having a physical relationship with the woman, known only as Patient A, but admitted to an

Tesla just released the Model 3 Performance on Tuesday, and already Tesla has hiked the price by $1,000. The Model 3 Performance came out the morning of Tesla’s quarterly earnings report earlier this week, with lots of updates. Tesla updated the car’s bodywork, seats, steering, brakes, damping, track mode software, and of course the rear

After Kia’s first three-row electric SUV is already seeing strong demand, the EV9 is set to gain a high-performance GT version. Kia confirmed the EV9 GT will launch in January with “enormous power” and other upgrades. Kia EV9 set for the GT treatment Kia launched its flagship EV9 in Korea last June. In less than

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Following similar announcements from rivals, Hyundai is adding more hybrids to its lineup as a bridge to its next-gen EVs. Hyundai will add hybrid production lines at its dedicated EV plant in Georgia as demand rises. Hyundai adds hybrids at its new dedicated EV plant Hyundai is shaking things up after initially announcing plans to

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Tesla now says that it expects its own 4680 battery cells to become cheaper than those coming from suppliers by the end of the year. 4680 is a new cell format enabled by new technologies, like tabless cells, developed by Tesla. It was first unveiled in 2020 with promises of enabling significantly lower cost, more

Mercedes unveiled its 2025 electric G-Class tonight – which it’s calling the “G580 with EQ technology” – in Beverly Hills, CA, and we’re here at the reveal with all the details. Mercedes first surprised us with its “EQG” concept at IAA in 2021. Now it’s heading to production, but with a somewhat more plain name. At the