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A new teardown of the battery cells in 7 electric cars resulted in showing that Tesla still dominates electric car batteries, but it’s getting closer. The electric vehicle market is maturing and many automakers are starting to settle with similar battery chemistries. Several battery cell manufacturers are emerging as leaders, like Panasonic, LG Chem, Samsung

The head of Ford’s electrification effort has thrown some serious shade at Tesla over quality issues and promises that you won’t have to make that compromise with Ford’s electric vehicles. Darren Palmer, one of the original members of Ford’s Edison team tasked to design the brand’s first all-electric vehicle and now the head of development

Tesla (TSLA) has recently introduced plans to produce its own battery cells called ‘4680’, but now we learn that Panasonic will also be producing the new cell for them, according to a new report. While Tesla has been working on its own battery cell chemstry for years, it has always worked with experienced battery cell

Wonder Woman 1984 raked in around $36.1m at cinemas worldwide over the Christmas holiday weekend, Warner Bros has said. It is believed that $16.7m of that came from US and Canadian venues. That makes it the highest domestic box office opening since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered cinemas in March, though the numbers were a fraction

Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll is being sued by his former co-star Gary Hollywood following an argument over pay, according to reports. O’Carroll is facing claims of constructive dismissal and workplace discrimination, according to the Daily Star Sunday. Hollywood, 41, who reportedly quit the sitcom earlier this year, is also taking legal action against

Elon Musk told Tesla employees in a new email obtained by Electrek that the automaker can still achieve its milestone of 500,000 electric cars delivered in 2020, but it will need to ‘go all out’ in order to achieve it. Tesla is nearing the end of its end-of-year delivery push as it aims to deliver

Wrestler Brodie Lee – who previously appeared in the WWE under the name Luke Harper – has died aged 41. The father-of-two, whose real name was Jonathan Huber, died on Boxing Day “after a hard fought battle with a non-COVID related lung issue”, according to his wife. Amanda Huber, herself an ex-wrestler who performed under

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Tesla is launching 3 new in-car video games on its arcade platform as part of its bigger holiday software update. As we reported earlier today, Tesla is about to release a big software update during the holidays and surprisingly, no information has leaked about it. That’s changing now. A picture of the release notes has

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including a few news items about Tesla and other automakers, but as a holiday special, we are going to have a broader discussion about the year 2020 in the electric vehicle world. Sponsored by Electrify America: Discover

We got the chance to test out the Ford Mustang Mach-E, and we’re bringing you our first-drive impressions of the electric vehicle. In short, we think it delivers a complete electric CUV experience. Last weekend, Ford loaned Electrek a pre-production Mustang Mach-E so we could get our first few driving hours inside the highly anticipated

LadBaby have taken the Christmas number one spot for the third consecutive year – beating Mariah Carey, Liam Gallagher and Justin Bieber. LadBaby – compromising of YouTubers Mark and Roxanne Hoyle – topped the charts with their sausage-roll themed Don’t Stop Me Eatin’, sung to the tune of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. First-week sales figures

The BBC has received 266 complaints about a Vicar of Dibley scene that showed support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In a Christmas special last week, Dawn French’s character took the knee and delivered a speech about racism. The scene shows her talking about being preoccupied with the “horror show” of George Floyd’s death

A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research team published a paper in the journal Science earlier this month on the development of a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell that achieved 29.15% efficiency. That’s a new world record. Solar cell efficiency record This beats the previous achievement of 28% efficiency. The long-term efficiency target for a perovskite/silicon tandem solar

Ariana Grande has sent Christmas presents to hundreds of patients in hospitals in Manchester. It is three years since a terror attack killed 22 people at the pop star’s concert in the Manchester Arena, and the city has been close to her heart since. The 27-year-old Positions singer sent gifts and Amazon vouchers to patients

A “deepfake” Queen is set to deliver a warning about misinformation and fake news in this year’s alternative Christmas message. Channel 4’s annual Christmas day speech airs shortly after the royal’s official broadcast, and has previously featured whistle-blower Edward Snowden, actor Danny Dyer, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, children who survived the Grenfell Tower disaster, and