Now that the Tesla Cybertruck has finally been unleashed on the world, all kinds of stories, features, and easter eggs have been hitting the internet—including details from key Tesla figures behind the design of the truck. In a recent interview with Top Gear, Tesla’s chief designer, Franz Von Holzhausen, and VP of engineering, Lars…

With the rollout of the production 2025 Cybertruck on Thursday, Tesla included a couple of battery-related surprises—including a long-awaited turnaround on the ability to use its EVs for home-energy backup in power outages.  While one of those battery surprises involved a separate range-extender, mounting inside the pickup’s bed and taking up cargo space (and likely…

Chinese e-bike maker Cyrusher has a knack for making rugged e-bikes with a practical side. We saw this in the Trax, a full-suspension, fat-tire e-bike with an easy-access step-through frame. This time around, Cyrusher is back with the Scout, a small and compact e-bike designed to tread beyond the beaten path, all while being a…

Chinese automaker Geely—parent company of Volvo, Polestar, and Lotus—has signed an agreement with Nio to use the latter's battery-swapping tech in the Chinese market. Under the agreement, the two companies "co-develop two battery swapping standards for private cars and commercial vehicles," promote adoption of the technology, and scale up battery-swapping operations, according to a Geely…

“Our Mars Jacket has a 3D-printed vomit pocket with a bright orange sick bag,” company cofounder Steve Tidball stated earlier this year. “You might call it provocative, but for us, it isn’t—it’s experimental.” Vollebak is a niche brand, however, and marketing a postapocalyptic future as somehow desirable is far from mainstream. Where Are the Copycats?…

Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based energy storage technology company, announced that a BMW iX test vehicle—powered by its Gemini dual-chemistry battery—achieved over 600 miles of range on a single charge. The demonstration project, conducted in partnership with BMW Group, was announced in mid-2022, with a goal of achieving 600 miles on ONE's battery,…

The Cybertruck is out, and it’s amazing—but it doesn’t quite measure up to expectations in some key specs. But it marks the debut of a new Powershare feature set that harnesses bidirectional charging. And in other news, Nio is partnering up with the parent of Volvo and Polestar for battery swapping. This and more, here…

Finally, we have some concrete details about the Tesla Cybertuck following its delivery event in Austin today. Plus, we now know it’ll be wickedly quick; at the event Tesla played a video of the Cybertruck beating a 2023 Porsche 911 in a drag race. The kicker: The Cybertruck won while towing another Porsche 911. Say…

At last, we have pricing for the Tesla Cybertruck production model, and while the electric pickup costs significantly more than what the EV maker announced four years ago, it is definitely an interesting proposition in the pickup segment. There's a single-motor variant priced at $60,990, which is $21,000 more than the price announced four…

Whether or not you see the Tesla Cybertruck as the bane of the pickup world or the second coming of Truck-Based Christ, we can all shut up now: the Cybertruck is a real thing. Angular styling, super quick, and equipped with a steering wheel that looks pretty close to the ire-drawing yoke, this thing appears…