Quick Charge Podcast: June 17, 2023

  • June 17, 2023
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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. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee […]

Tesla announces it produced 10 million 4680 battery cells at Giga Texas

  • June 17, 2023
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Tesla announced it produced 10 million 4680 battery cells at Gigafactory Texas. It is a good sign for the automaker’s production ramp-up, which relies heavily on the new cell. The 4680 battery cell format has taken the industry by storm since Tesla unveiled its own cell strategy at Battery Day in 2020. The automaker claimed […]

Denago Commute Step-Thru review – a big, comfy bike with some quirks

  • June 17, 2023
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Denago sent us a review copy of the step-through model of its $1,799 Commute bike, and we’ll take you through what we thought of this big, well-equipped, and comfort-focused bike. The Denago Commute is a bike that puts a premium on rider comfort and has quite a few built-in features that won’t leave you wanting […]

Want an electric zero-turn lawn mower for half the price? It’s here, sort of

  • June 17, 2023
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There’s no form of wheeled transport, whether for recreation or utility use, that is safe from the sweeping wave of electrification. Those maintenance-prone, expensive and carcinogen-spewing combustion engines are on their way out in nearly every industry, not the least of which includes lawn-care. The only problem is that the larger and fancier zero-turn electric […]

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The New War on Bad Air

  • June 17, 2023
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In January 1912, in the depths of a New York City winter, an unusual new apartment complex opened on the Upper East Side. The East River Homes were designed to help poor families fend off tuberculosis, a fearsome, airborne disease, by turning dark, airless tenements inside out. Passageways led from the street to capacious internal […]

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How a Toilet Plunger Improved CPR

  • June 17, 2023
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In 1988, a 65-year-old man’s heart stopped at home. His wife and son didn’t know CPR, so in desperation they grabbed a toilet plunger to get his heart going until an ambulance showed up. Later, after the man recovered at San Francisco General Hospital, his son gave the doctors there some advice: Put toilet plungers […]

A healthy 17-year-old had a stroke. Doctors think vaping was the cause.

  • June 17, 2023
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Just moments before Ella Blinco suffered a stroke, she had been her normal, perfectly healthy 17-year-old self. She had woken up, vaped some nicotine and headed to the bathroom to prepare for an Ivy Tech Community College class later that January day. As she sat on the toilet, scrolling through her phone, she dropped the […]