Tesla Gigafactory Texas has achieved a new production milestone of 4,000 cars in a week, but the factory trails behind Gigafactory Berlin in its friendly production ramp-up competition. The automaker has been simultaneously ramping up two major factories, Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas, to volume production at the same time. It created a friendly competition
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Hollywood stars Paul Mescal and Jodie Comer have won the night’s biggest trophies at the Olivier Awards, while a stage adaptation of a beloved animated Japanese classic swept the board. Mescal won best actor in a play for his role in the revival of the Tennessee Williams classic A Streetcar Named Desire, while Jodie Comer
Here at Electrek we have spent countless hours undertaking detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through those thousands of miles of riding, we’ve gotten to know these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That dedication to real world e-bike testing has helped us find the best electric bicycles
An Oscar winner has revealed how her 11-year-old daughter pranked her with a letter demanding the return of her prestigious award. Canadian writer and director Sarah Polley scooped her Academy Award for Women Talking – starring Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand – in Los Angeles last month. But the 44-year-old said
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Christopher Judge is on a winning streak, after taking home the top performer prizes at The Game Awards in LA (gaming’s equivalent of the Oscars) in December and the best lead performer at the BAFTA Games Awards in London this week. But his success hasn’t been easily won. Speaking to Sky News on the BAFTA
As usual for entries in this Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column, the fun EVs we dredge up tend to bridge the gap between fun-looking and palm sweat-inducing. Would you take a cheap inflatable electric jet ski out into the bay or off the coast? What if I told you that you
Texas A&M University scientists have been working with metal-free, water-based battery electrodes, and they’re finding that the difference in energy storage capacity is as much as 1,000%. How the water-based batteries work In the scientists’ paper, published in Nature Materials this week, the water-based, or aqueous, batteries consist of a cathode – the negatively charged electrode;
Ahead of her first TV role airing Lily Allen has spoken to Sky News about why she’s moved from music to drama and how her own “dysfunctional” family helped inform her character. In new comedy Dreamland she plays a woman returning to her family in Margate, who soon finds out she’s brought more than she
Gwyneth Paltrow consciously uncoupled from ordinary life years ago. In the era of celebrity relatability, with once mysterious A-listers now sharing everything from breakfast to breakdowns on social media, she is one star completely comfortable with the world knowing she exists on a higher plane of bone broth, vagina candles, and $8,000-a-day skiing lessons. Facing
The US Treasury Department today announced its expected EV tax credit guidance on the battery component and critical mineral sourcing requirements of the Inflation Reduction Act, changing the availability of EV tax credits in the US, with the net effect of reducing tax credit amounts for many vehicles purchased on April 18 or later. The
Bernadette Hunt, who starred as Falcon in the hit 90s competitive sports combat game show Gladiators, has died aged 59. The news was shared by her brother-in-law, Rick Jango, on a Facebook page celebrating showbiz from days gone by. He wrote: “It is with great sadness that I have to tell you of my partner’s
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Gwyneth Paltrow has won a high-profile civil court case against a man who claimed she crashed into him while skiing. She was awarded $1 in damages after the jury found retired optometrist Terry Sanderson was “100%” at fault for the skiing accident. The jurors deliberated for two hours on Thursday after hearing eight days of
Robotaxi developer Waymo will soon be operating an all-electric fleet of fifth-generation Waymo Driver as it is retiring its fourth-generation tech utilized on Chrysler Pacifica hybrids. Looking ahead, Waymo will deploy the Jaguar I-Pace EVs as it continues to develop future autonomous vehicles with Geely and its all-electric ZEEKR brand. Waymo was launched in 2009
Paul O’Grady has been remembered as “one of the greatest drag artists the UK has ever seen” at the LGBTQ+ cabaret club that helped him rise to fame as Lily Savage. Instead of the typical minute’s silence, there was a minute of raucous applause from the audience at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern (RVT) in south
Faraday Future has announced the start of FF91 production in its Hanford, CA factory in central California, which it calls “FF ieFactory California.” Earlier this month, Faraday said that it would finally start production by the end of March, pending millions of funding coming through. Faraday says this is last of 7 major manufacturing milestones
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Paul O’Grady was known for his drag queen persona Lily Savage, his TV presence, his campaigning and his love of animals. But in a life that spanned almost seven decades and a career that took in cleaning, drag and Dr Who, there are many things you might not know about him. Sky News looks at
Electrek spoke with Heidi Gehring, associate director, cooling product marketing at Carrier HVAC, about the five essential things to know about this energy-efficient, cost-effective way to heat and cool a home. Electrek: What’s a heat pump and how does it work? Heidi Gehring: A heat pump is often mistaken for an air conditioner at first