Vietnamese EV maker VinFast is setting its sights on a major new frontier: India’s massive two-wheeler market. After already laying groundwork for its electric car business in the country, the company is now preparing to launch a lineup of electric scooters as part of a broader push into India’s fast-growing EV sector.
It's a Kia, although it's based on (and badged as) a Lotus Elan.
Auctioned off as an abandoned car, EV1 chassis No. 212 is finally getting some respect as a part of GM history.
APM Terminals has been electrifying its operations at the Port of Los Angeles over the last few years – and they’ve been able to effectively decarbonize and cut their fuel costs substantially. Those efforts have yielded another unexpected benefit, too: they’ve slashed truck idle times at the port by almost 85%.
The cars I recall most fondly were neither the prettiest nor the quickest. Certainly not the most expensive. They were machines that emerged willfully peculiar and intractably idiosyncratic.
The 1965 Iso Rivolta married the best of Italy and the USA, and this one is for sale on Bring a Trailer.
From the archive: We'd gladly go another 30,000 miles.
See the interior and exterior of the 1983 Porsche 944 from every angle.
The new electric-drive Komatsu PC9000-12 is the largest hydraulic excavator in the brand’s storied history, capable of moving a massive, 80 tons of material, per pass – at a rate of more than 8,000 tons per hour of operation.
To test if antimatter can be safely transported, a team of scientists loaded antiprotons into a specially prepared truck.
A new utility-scale solar farm just came online in Ohio, and it’s generating power with panels manufactured in-state.
A Nissan exec says the GT-R's return is a matter of when, not if, and the R36 generation will remain a budget supercar slayer.
XCharge North America and JOJO Superfast are rolling out a new EV fast-charging network across Illinois, starting with nine locations and more to come.
Google announced an open-source operating system for Android Auto, which it says will run more key features in cars moving forward.
In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss EV deliveries from Tesla, Rivian, and others, Toyota’s electric pickup truck, and more.
We’re ending this week’s Green Deals with many sales, starting with the newly launched Lectric April Showers e-bike sale that is offering up to $720 savings, like the XP Lite2 JW Black Long-Range Belt-Drive Folding e-bike with $405 in FREE gear at $1,099, among others. There’s also EcoFlow’s Easter weekend 72-hour flash sale that has cut up to 58% off power stations and a 220W solar panel starting from $284, as well as a shorter-term 24-hour flash sale from Anker SOLIX with up to 67% power station discounts (and exclusive bonus savings) to lows starting from $699. We also spotted two of Worx’s latest Landroid Vision Cloud RTK robot lawn mowers – both a standard and 4WD model – at return and new lows, Segway’s budget-friendly E2 Plus II Electric Scooter at its second-best price, and continuing spring sale deals waiting for you below. And don’t forget about the other hangover deals at the bottom of the page, like yesterday’s new low price on the EGO Z6 42-inch Cordless Electric Zero-Turn Riding Mower bundle with six batteries and a wall charger, the Segway e-scooters seeing bigger savings at Amazon, and more.
Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.
See the interior of the 2025 Land Rover Defender Octa from every angle.
A BMW-sourced V-8 gives the venerable Defender a whole lot of hustle.
See the exterior of the 2025 Land Rover Defender Octa from every angle.
The national average gas price hit $4.09 per gallon this week — up 33% from a year ago — as yet another oil crisis hammers American drivers. But this time, the math on switching to electric is so overwhelmingly clear that millions of drivers are doing the calculation and reaching the same conclusion: they can’t afford not to drive electric.
Electrified vehicle consideration jumped to 23.8% of all car shopper research activity in mid-March, the highest weekly level of 2026, according to Edmunds data. Online searches for EVs surged 17% in a single week as gas prices spiked.
