The winners of this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) have been revealed – a major predictor of the Oscars, with just a week to go. Demi Moore continued her run of success to be named best actress for her performance in body horror The Substance, while Timothee Chalamet picked up the award for best
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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla protests, Rivian’s earnings, Kia’s new electric vehicles, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one,
Photo: GM Energy NEMA has published its EVSE Power Export Permitting Standard, which defines the technical parameters to allow EV owners to enable bidirectional charging, which allows electricity to flow to EVs and EVs to transfer power back to the grid. NEMA’s bidirectional EV charging standard defines characteristics in key domains, electrical, communications, and cybersecurity for permitting
Actor and comedian Chris O’Dowd has described moving back to London from the US, finding people in the city are “down” after a decade of cutbacks. The IT Crowd star returned to London from Los Angeles with his wife Dawn O’Porter and their two children a year ago. “It’s just gone through 10 years of
Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com The Trump administration is shutting down EV chargers at all federal government buildings and is also expected to sell off the General Services Administration‘s (GSA) newly bought EVs. GSA, which manages all federal government-owned buildings, also operates the federal buildings’ EV chargers. Federally owned EVs and federal employee-owned personal EVs
Pamela Anderson is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood. Ever since she was spotted on the huge jumbotron screen at a baseball game aged 21, her physical traits have been the overriding subject the world has focused on. Now 57, the actress and model is claiming back her life, her story and forging
Ford is offering big savings opportunities right now on its electric vehicles. The Ford Mustang Mach-E can be leased for less than a Toyota Camry in some places despite costing over $10,000 more. Here’s how you can snag some savings. Ford’s Mach-E is cheaper to lease than a Camry right now With over 51,700 models
Neighbours has been axed for a second time, just two years after Amazon threw the Australian soap a lifeline. A statement on the programme’s social media accounts confirmed the final episode of the 40-year series would air in December 2025. The show follows the lives of the residents of Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne,
Rivian (RIVN) hit its goal of achieving a positive gross profit in the fourth quarter. The EV maker released its fourth-quarter earnings after the market closed on Thursday. Here’s a full breakdown of Rivian’s Q4 2024 financials. Rivian achieves first gross profit in Q4 2024 earnings Yesterday, in our Q4 earnings preview, we noted that
Speculation about the next James Bond was rife even before Daniel Craig confirmed once and for all that he was stepping down. Aaron Taylor-Johnson? Idris Elba? Henry Cavill? James Norton? A female 007? Three-and-a-half years on from No Time To Die, already delayed due to COVID and other problems, there has not been a scrap
Creative control of the long-running James Bond franchise has been handed to Amazon MGM Studios, in a joint venture with the current owners. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson – who are the daughter and stepson of film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, the man responsible for developing the Bond franchise into the success it is
Cowboy, the Brussels, Belgium-based electric bicycle maker famous for its modern take on classic European-cycling designs, is nearshoring its production to speed up delivery times. Moving its e-bike production out of Asia, Cowboy is instead bringing its assembly back home—or at least pretty darn close to home. Cowboy has teamed up with the France-based company
Pregnant actress Michelle Keegan and her husband Mark Wright reportedly hid from burglars in a locked bedroom during a home invasion at their mansion. Essex Police said it was alerted to the break-in at about 6.20pm on Tuesday, with four suspects reported to have forced entry and searched the address before fleeing. The force said
Photo: T1 Energy After scrapping plans to build a $2.6 billion battery energy storage system factory in Georgia, FREYR Battery (NYSE: FREY) has rebranded itself as T1 Energy (NYSE: TE). FREYR turned T1 Energy also has a new strategy: It says it’s committed to “becoming a vertically integrated US solar + battery storage leader from
Dad was a showman with great charisma, but he never lost sight of the fact that an interview is about the guest, not the host. That is made clear when you review the 10,000+ interviews he did, as I have done over the last decade since he left us. That theme has been central to
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs say the rapper has been subject to a “racist” prosecution and are seeking to dismiss one of the criminal charges against him. In a court filing seen by Sky News, the 55-year-old’s legal team say he “has been singled out because he is a powerful black man” and is being
Elon Musk’s visit to India may have been more about Tesla than any mission for the US government, if recent job listings at Tesla are to be believed. Plus, we’ve got news that construction on the first Tesla Semi truck stop is underway in California – and only six years behind schedule! All this and more
Kia’s flagship electric SUV just got a high-performance upgrade. On Tuesday, Kia launched the EV9 GT in South Korea with over 500 horsepower, a sporty new design, and a price tag just north of $60,000. That’s not too bad for a fully loaded three-row electric SUV. Following its domestic launch, the sporty new trim will
Blink-182 star Mark Hoppus is set to auction a rare Banksy painting that is estimated to be worth up to £5m. The 52-year-old musician, singer and bassist in the punk-rock trio acquired the work with his wife Skye Everly in 2011. Crude Oil (Vettriano) was first exhibited by Banksy in 2005 and is the anonymous
Photo: Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission Japan’s UBE Corporation has broken ground in Louisiana on what will be the US’s only dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) plant – key components for lithium-ion batteries in EVs and battery storage. DMC is also used in semiconductors. The EV battery material plant officially kicked off