Addmotor E53 City Pro electric bike review: Testing a commuter e-bike with 125 miles of range?!?

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When Addmotor unveiled its E-53 City Pro electric bike recently, it showed off one of the biggest batteries in the industry: 48V and 20Ah of capacity for a nearly 1 kWh of energy between the rider’s knees. But the bike wasn’t only about big batteries and long range. It also included a number of commuter-worthy features and components designed to turn the Addmotor E-53 City Pro electric bike into an ideal everyday runabout electric bike.

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Tesla alums launch a new electric RV startup: Lightship

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A bunch of Tesla alums has launched a new electric RV startup with its first product being a travel trailer equipped with an electric powertrain to help increase the range of an electric vehicle towing a trailer.

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Quick Charge Podcast: July 13, 2022

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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.

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Hyundai officially debuts new IONIQ 6 with 379 mile range, teases upcoming IONIQ N performance EV

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This evening, Hyundai globally debuted the IONIQ 6, which it describes as an “electrified streamliner.” Because it shares the same 800V E-GMP platform as the IONIQ 5, the IONIQ 6 makes its debut with a lot of the same features. That being said, Hyundai has worked hard to improve several performance specifications on it newest EV, including significantly better range.

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Tesla loses its head of AI and vision Andrej Karpathy – a big loss for the Autopilot team

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Andrej Karpathy, senior director in charge of AI and computer vision at Tesla, announced that he is leaving the automaker. It is a big loss for Tesla’s Autopilot team and self-driving effort.

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Panasonic to build battery factory in Kansas to supply Tesla with new 4680 cell, report says

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Panasonic is reportedly going to build a new battery cell factory in Kansas to supply Tesla with its new 4680 cell.

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26% of US households use electricity as their only energy source – but there’s a caveat

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In 2020, 26% of US households – that’s 32.25 million out of 123.53 million homes – used electricity as their only source of energy, according to the US Energy Information Administration. But what the EIA doesn’t note is what fuels that “electricity as the only source of energy.”

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Tesla battery supplier Panasonic teases impressive increases in capacity

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Panasonic, which grew into a major battery cell supplier in the EV industry through its partnership with Tesla, is now teasing some important improvements in battery capacity.

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Wheel-E Podcast! Special episode for Eurobike 2022 with the latest e-bike news

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This week on a special episode of Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most interesting news and announcements from Eurobike 2022, the largest electric bicycle trade show in Europe. Some of the biggest stories include a first chance to test Tern’s new Quick Haul electric bike, the massive amount of cargo e-bikes at the show, anti-lock braking for e-bikes from a joint Blubrake & Shimano venture, a perceptible drop in pedal bikes, and lots more.

This episode of the podcast is sponsored by Tern Bicycles, who recently released the Quick Haul to make quality electric cargo bikes more affordable.

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Watch XPeng’s latest video of an HT Aero eVTOL that you drive like a flying car

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Urban air mobility (UAM) company HT Aero continues to make progress toward the “flying car” it has promised to deliver by 2024. XPeng Huitian (aka HT Aero) recently posted a video to Weibo demonstrating an eVTOL prototype taking off, flying around, and being maneuvered like a car. It has the XPeng Motors steering wheel and everything – check it out.

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