E-quipment highlight: LiuGong 924FE electric excavator is coming to America
E-quipment highlight: LiuGong 924FE electric excavator is coming to America

Global equipment brand LiuGong says its 924FE 30-ton electric excavator isn’t an alternative to diesel. Instead, it’s better in every way – and the company’s North American customers are about to see for themselves.

First Ferrari Luce EV sells for $40 million, 36x its estimate
First Ferrari Luce EV sells for $40 million, 36x its estimate

Ferrari’s first electric car sold for $40 million at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction Saturday night. The pre-sale estimate was $1.1 million.
That’s more than 36 times the estimate, and roughly 62 times what the Luce costs on Ferrari’s own price list. Eve…

ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes

ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature […]

350-ton Longking ZL230E is the biggest, baddest battery mining rig you can buy
350-ton Longking ZL230E is the biggest, baddest battery mining rig you can buy

Zijin Longking rolled into a media ceremony in Longyan City, Fujian Province this week with the all-electric ZL230E electric mining truck – a 350-ton GVW haul truck that sits in a class of its own as the single largest-tonnage battery electric mining t…

Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback
Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback

At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening replied, “I think the original game is coming back in some form,” before current showrunner Matt Selman added, “or not.” The tone in both of their voices and the body language suggests that […]

Weekend Quick Charge: all about autonomy with Waymo and GM
Weekend Quick Charge: all about autonomy with Waymo and GM

On today’s self-steering episode of Quick Charge, we take a look at Waymo’s westward expansion into 18 new California counties – a move the company believes will power it to more than one MILLION paid rides by the end of the year.

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there’s a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as […]

Tesla adds 2.4 kW vehicle-to-load to Model Y Premium with $80 adapter
Tesla adds 2.4 kW vehicle-to-load to Model Y Premium with $80 adapter

Tesla has switched on vehicle-to-load for the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico, letting owners pull 2.4 kW out of the car’s battery at 120 volts and 20 amps.
You need an $80 accessory to do it, and not every Model Y Premium can. Tesla says the…

Turning millions of Teslas and Mach-Es into V2L power stations: WETOX D2 earns world’s first Next-Gen V2X certification from SGS
Turning millions of Teslas and Mach-Es into V2L power stations: WETOX D2 earns world’s first Next-Gen V2X certification from SGS

The ability to tap into the energy locked inside your car’s battery to power tools, lights, campground gear, and essential home appliances during an outage has quickly become one of the most desirable EV features.
The problem? Many electric vehicles al…

Current classics: Bisimoto’s 600 hp electric Rolls-Royce SilvEV Ghost
Current classics: Bisimoto’s 600 hp electric Rolls-Royce SilvEV Ghost

First seen in the Toyo Tires booth in 2024, Bisi Ezerioha’s converted Roller resurfaced this week at Exotics on Broadway – and the slick, silent running SilvEV Ghost electric restomod has never looked better with a freshened interior and a fresh coat o…