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The Great American EV Fire Sale Is About to Begin

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-11 13:37:39

If you are thinking about buying an electric vehicle, the clock is now ticking. President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” has officially passed Congress, and with it, a countdown that will kill the popular $7,500 federal tax credit for new electric vehicles. You now have less than three months to act. The tax credit officially expires on September 30, 2025. Initially, there were rumors the EV credits would last 180 days from when the bill was signed, a six-month grace period. This law

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TechCrunch Mobility: The state of EV sales and Rivian secures the next $1B from VW

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-08-12 10:05:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! This week I’m publishing an abbreviated version of the newsletter because of the 4th of July holiday. If you’re driving, flying, or taking the train for the U.S. holiday — which AAA projects 72.2 million people will travel at least 50 miles or more — stay safe out there. The complete newsletter returns next week. I have one import

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Slate Auto drops ‘under $20,000’ pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-13 13:47:52

Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will start “under $20,000” following passage of President Trump’s tax cut bill. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Trump on July 4, will cause the federal EV tax credit to end in September — a $7,500 incentive that Slate had counted on to help its all-electric pickup clear that mark. When Slate came out of stealth mode in April, the startup heavily promoted that

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Slate Auto drops “under $20,000” pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-13 18:47:52

Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has stopped promoting that its upcoming pickup truck will start “under $20,000” following passage of President Trump’s tax cut bill. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Trump on July 4, will cause the federal EV tax credit to end in September — a $7,500 incentive that Slate had counted to help its all-electric pickup to clear that mark. When Slate came out of stealth mode in April, the startup heavily promoted that

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Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-08-13 03:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling

news.ycombinator.com May 2025-08-13 08:51:38

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why it greatly enhances your viewing experience)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-08-17 05:59:40

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underutili

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Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-18 17:52:39

No wonder Google is desperate for more power: The company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability report, which it released late last week. In 2024, Google data centers used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity. That’s up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020, the earliest year Google broke out data center consumption. Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity

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Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla’s Model Y

wired.com Alistair Charlton 2025-08-18 15:42:35

Another week, another Chinese electric car poised to deliver an extinction event to Western automakers. This time it’s Xiaomi, a Beijing-based tech firm best known for smartphones and the company behind the Porsche Taycan–baiting SU7, which in late-2024 was so popular that Xiaomi increased its sales forecast three times in a matter of months. Now Xiaomi is back, and this time it has an electric SUV up its sleeve. Resembling the love child of a Ferrari Purosangue and an Aston Martin DBX707 desc

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Google’s data center energy use doubled in four years

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-08-18 22:52:39

No wonder Google is desperate for more power: the company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability report, which it released late last week. In 2024, Google data centers used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity. That’s up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020, the earliest year Google broke out data center consumption. Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity

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The electric Hummer is almost outselling the F-150 Lightning

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-19 02:00:00

General Motors sold 4,508 electric Hummer trucks and SUVs in the second quarter in the U.S., putting it close to Ford’s F-150 Lightning despite a price gap in the tens of thousands of dollars. The Hummer sales were part of a banner quarter for GM’s electric vehicles, making it one of the only automakers that saw a genuine year-over-year uptick in U.S. EV sales, according to data released Tuesday. The company sold 17,420 electric Equinox SUVs, 3,056 electric Silverado pickups, 6,549 Blazer EVs,

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Trump Was Just Asked If He’ll Deport Elon Musk

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-19 03:08:19

War has now been declared between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The alliance between the two powerful men has shattered, and their escalating feud has now reached a stunning new level: Trump was asked on Tuesday if he would deport Musk, who was born in South Africa but became a U.S. citizen in 2002. “Are you going to deport Elon Musk?” a reporter asked the president. “I don’t know,” Trump responded, before adding ominously, “We’ll have to take a look.” He then threatened to use a weap

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Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla's Model Y

wired.com Alistair Charlton 2025-08-19 21:42:35

Another week, another Chinese electric car poised to deliver an extinction event to Western automakers. This time it’s Xiaomi, a Beijing-based tech firm best known for smartphones and the company behind the Porsche Taycan-baiting SU7, which in late-2024 was so popular that Xiaomi increased its sales forecast three times in a matter of months. Now Xiaomi is back, and this time it has an electric SUV up its sleeve. Resembling the lovechild of a Ferrari Purosangue and an Aston Martin DBX707 descr

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Joby Aviation stock pops 12% after delivering first flying taxi to UAE

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-08-21 02:01:30

An electric air taxi by Joby Aviation flies near the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 12, 2023. Joby Aviation stock soared about 12% as the flying air taxi maker got closer to launching a service in the United Arab Emirates. The electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, company said Monday that it delivered its first aircraft to the UAE and has completed piloted flight tests as it readies for a 2026 launch in the region. "Our flights and operation

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I changed 6 settings on my Roku TV to give it an instant performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-08-23 14:08:00

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Few things ruin the joy of watching a good show more than suddenly seeing that rotating asterisk symbol or swirly icon that tells you your TV is buffering. Or maybe it's stuttering, or altogether freezing. If this is happening on your Roku TV, don't give up on it just yet. Also: How to disable ACR on your TV (and why doing so makes such a big difference) Like phones and computers, Rokus have caches that accumulate temporary data, which inevitably slows them down over time. Th

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why it make such a big difference)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-08-23 14:12:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targeted ads. Also: Your TV's USB port is seriously underutili

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Researchers develop a battery cathode material that does it all

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-26 06:08:01

Battery electrode materials need to do a lot of things well. They need to be conductors to get charges to and from the ions that shuttle between the electrodes. They also need to have an open structure that allows the ions to move around before they reach a site where they can be stored. The storage of lots of ions also causes materials to expand, creating mechanical stresses that can cause the structure of the electrode material to gradually decay. Because it's hard to get all of these propert

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The Download: Google DeepMind’s DNA AI, and heatwaves’ impact on the grid

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-26 18:10:00

When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model that predicts what effects small changes in DNA will have on an array of molecular processes, such as whether a gene’s activity will go up or down. It’s just the sort of ques

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Why this electric screwdriver is one of the best investments I've made for my home

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-08-27 00:00:17

ZDNET's key takeaways The new Bosch Go is on sale for $100. It features USB-C charging, a vast improvement on the old microUSB port, plus there's a bigger battery and a ring light on the front to illuminate the workspace. The screwdriver comes in a handy carry case with a selection of bits, so you have everything to do the job in hand. $99.98 at Amazon Two years ago, I got myself a Bosch Go electric screwdriver. The thing was amazing; it's been on my best electric screwdrivers list ever since

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Three axial flux motors and 850 kW fast charging? Meet the GT XX.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-28 06:30:19

Mercedes-Benz provided flights from Detroit to Stuttgart and accommodation so Ars could be briefed on the GT XX, as well as some other things we can't publish just yet. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. AFFALTERBACH, Germany—A few years ago, we were treated to the Mercedes-Benz EQXX. It was, at the time, the pinnacle of Mercedes engineering built for the purpose of maximum electric range. While an impressive piece of machinery that looked like it drove out of Le Mans, it wasn't design

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This Electric Scooter is 57% off the Original Price, Amazon Wants to Clear Its Stock Before Prime Day

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-28 18:26:10

Electric scooters are the newest hip means of transportation with a great combination of convenience, speed, and style. With so many available models, it’s sometimes difficult to find one that provides solid performance along with dependable safety features. The Maxshot electric scooter is the intelligent choice if you require both—and now it’s affordable enough to ignore. Originally priced at $399, the Maxshot scooter has lost a lot of its original price over time with its all-time lowest pric

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The Debrief: Power and energy

technologyreview.com Mat Honan 2025-08-29 09:00:00

Yet in many ways right now the US seems to be forgetting those lessons. It is moving backward in terms of its clean-energy strategy, especially when it comes to powering the grid, in ways that will affect the nation for decades to come—even as China and others are surging forward. And that retreat is taking place just as electricity demand and usage are growing again after being flat for nearly two decades. That growth, according to the US Energy Information Administration, is “coming from the

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More news from the labs of MIT

technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2025-08-29 22:00:00

New electronic “skin” could lead to lightweight night-vision glasses MIT engineers have developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin “skins” of electronic material that could be used in wearable sensors, flexible transistors and computing elements, and sensitive compact imaging devices. Technology makes pesticides stick to plant leaves A new pesticide application system developed by MIT researchers and their spinoff company could significantly cut use of pesticides and fertilizers, saving

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New York City's Power Is Going Down Amid Brutal Heatwave

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-30 18:09:13

"Like an air fryer, it's going to be hot." America Unplugged While a gigantic heat dome parks itself like an unwelcome guest over a major swath of the United States, residents of the ultra-dense metropolis of New York City are the perfect example of a country so cooked by climate change that it's overwhelming existing infrastructure. More than 3,000 people were without power for a second day in a row in parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, according to local broadcaster PIX 11. Con Ed

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Show HN: Oasis – an open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 02:03:41

Oasis https://oasis-terrarium.com Oasis is a fully open-source, mostly 3d-printed smart terrarium. It provides the ideal environment for humidity-loving plants like mosses, ferns, orchids, and many others. The design includes: high power LED lighting a mister for providing plants with water and maintaining high humidity fans for airflow a temperature/humidity sensor for monitoring environment conditions wifi connectivity to allow control and configuration from your phone or computer (see

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This Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing

wired.com Carlton Reid 2025-08-31 19:00:00

It may well be able to wade through deep water, have crawl-assist mode for sketchy terrain, and even perform 360-degree swivel-on-the-spot tank turns, but sales of the seemingly much-anticipated electric Mercedes G-Class SUV have been poor. Actually, that’s an understatement. They’ve been woeful. And it’s not the only e-flop from a legacy automaker: Just last week Ferrari announced that it is delaying its second EV model (the first will arrive in October) until at least 2028 because of weak dem

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Should You Buy an Induction or Electric Stove? Here’s How to Make the Right Choice

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-31 19:10:00

Even if you enjoy cooking, waiting for a pot of water to boil is probably one of the things you'd rather not have to deal with. And yes, the more you watch it, the slower it boils -- that's just science. But did you know that some ways of heating a pot are quicker than others? They can be better for other reasons, too. Using an electric stove can take longer than you'd like, making a gas range the preferred choice -- not to mention they usually heat your pots and pans more evenly, too. And with

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New York’s getting a new nuclear power plant

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-09-01 14:45:24

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans today to develop a new nuclear power plant, the first to be built in the state in decades. It’s the latest signal that nuclear energy could see a comeback in the US thanks to wide-ranging support from some strange bedfellows: the

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Interesting Bits of Postgres Grammar

news.ycombinator.com Steve Dignam 2025-09-01 20:09:21

I’ve been working on Squawk for a while, it’s a linter for PostgreSQL, and it now uses a handmade parser. So let’s explore some interesting bits from the Postgres grammar. Custom Operators Very few operators are defined in the grammar itself and lots of Postgres features rely on custom operators. For example, Postgres uses <-> for comparing geometric types, along with a whole host of others: ## , @-@ , # , @> , <@> , &< , &> , |>> , |<< , <^ , >^ , ?- , ?| , ?|| , ~= . Note: custom operator

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

news.ycombinator.com Brecht De Ruyte 2025-08-31 00:21:04

In this (long) part of the customizable select series, it’s all about gamification. In this article, I’d like to highlight one of my demos, where I aimed to recreate a piece of UI found in the Monster Hunter games. To re-create this behavior, I had to think in terms of keyboard navigation first. This demo requires quite a lot of CSS, as well as some scripting, and in the end, I do want to highlight some accessibility concerns. This is an experiment on how far we can take it when styling select e

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The Great American EV Fire Sale Is About to Begin

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Slate Auto drops ‘under $20,000’ pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

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Trump Was Just Asked If He’ll Deport Elon Musk

Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla's Model Y

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How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why it make such a big difference)

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Scroll snapping, state queries, monster hunter, and gamification

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