Range Rover has revealed its long-awaited fully electric SUV, the Range Rover Electric, which closely mirrors the look of its gas-powered siblings rather than adopting a futuristic design. The vehicle uses twin 260kW motors and a 118.5 kWh battery for an estimated 330 miles of range, with 542 horsepower and 800-volt architecture allowing rapid charging. Orders are now open starting at £154,070 (about $140,450), years after the EV was first announced and previewed for preorder.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-02
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Book6, a 14-inch Windows laptop starting at $799, built around Intel's new Wildcat Lake chips and aimed at everyday computing rather than premium workloads. The base model ships with 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage, with configurations available up to 16GB and 1TB, and Samsung claims up to 25 hours of battery life from its 61.2Wh battery.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-02
Jaguar Land Rover has revealed the Range Rover Electric, its first mass-produced battery-electric variant of the luxury SUV, arriving in 2027 with a starting price of $138,000. The company says it already has 80,000 expressed interest from potential buyers, half of them in North America, with most being new to the brand. Visually the EV closely resembles its combustion and hybrid siblings, distinguished mainly by a smoother front grille and more aerodynamic wheels.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-01
JLR has begun taking orders for the Range Rover Electric, its first all-electric SUV, roughly a year after originally planned following extended testing. The model offers up to 542 horsepower, a 118.5-kWh battery capable of adding 137 miles of range in 10 minutes, and a WLTP-rated range near 372 miles. UK pricing starts at £154,070 and rises above £225,000 for the SV Black long-wheelbase version, while US buyers can get the SE trim from $138,000 plus delivery fees.
wired.com
· 2026-09-01
Google has begun rolling out a Battery Usage Summary feature to Pixel 10 and later devices, which flags unusual battery drain and points to the apps consuming the most power. The summaries appear at the top of the Battery usage page and are generated on-device using Gemini Nano, requiring the latest AI Core update to function.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-01
Sennheiser's new Momentum 5 Wireless headphones claim up to 57 hours of battery life with ANC on, nearly double rivals like the Sony WH-1000XM6 and Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3. The headphones also feature a battery that users can swap themselves by removing four screws under the ear pad, though the replacement battery isn't yet sold separately. They support a wide range of audio codecs including aptX Lossless and offer both wired and USB-C lossless playback.
wired.com
· 2026-09-01
Canadian auto parts maker Magna International is investing an additional $35 million into Yuma Energy, a Bengaluru-based battery-swapping startup spun out of Yulu in 2023. The new funding raises Magna's stake beyond the 51% it held since the joint venture began, diluting Yulu's share, though the exact new split wasn't disclosed. Yuma has completed over 60 million swaps and has roughly 100,000 batteries deployed for electric two- and three-wheelers.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-01
Amazon's Labor Day sale is offering steep discounts on Apple products, including the AirTag 2 4-pack for $79.99 (about $20 per unit), its lowest price ever. Amazon Resale is also offering up to 60% off refurbished Apple items like MagSafe Battery packs, AirPods, and Apple Pencil, with an extra 30% off at checkout on some listings.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-08-31
In 1799, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta built a stack of alternating zinc and copper discs separated by brine-soaked paper, creating the first device to produce a steady electric current. His invention, later called the voltaic pile, was a direct rebuttal to fellow scientist Luigi Galvani's theory that dissected frog legs twitched due to an innate 'animal electricity' generated within living tissue. Volta argued instead that the electricity came from the contact between two different metals, with the frog's moist tissue merely acting as a conductor.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-08-31
Researchers led by CSIRO's James Quach built a quantum battery prototype that charges in femtoseconds using a phenomenon called superabsorption, where organic dye molecules packed between two mirrors respond collectively to laser light. Unlike conventional batteries, this device charges faster as more molecules are added, and the team successfully extracted a small electrical current from it, extending earlier 2022 research that only showed rapid energy absorption.
techspot.com
· 2026-08-30
The Open Battery Information project has retired its old Python/Tkinter desktop app in favor of a new web-based interface, OBI-1, that connects directly to an Arduino or ESP32-C3 via Web Serial. The tool lets users read and reset battery management system (BMS) faults without installing any software, including flashing firmware straight from the browser.
github.com
· 2026-08-29
Bentley let Ars Technica ride in a camouflaged prototype of the Torcal, its debut battery-electric model, shorter than the Bentayga but similarly spacious inside. The SUV shares underlying engineering with the Porsche Cayenne EV and targets roughly 300 miles of EPA range with 400 kW DC fast-charging, producing over 850 PS and more than 1,000 Nm of torque.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-08-27
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