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Want to buy an e-bike with a safer UL battery? Your options are slim, but growing

Electrek

We’ve talked a lot about the increasing spate of fires related to light electric vehicles, including e-bikes, e-scooters, and other micromobility devices. But one Southern California-based e-bike company is now doing something about it by upgrading all of their batteries with UL certification.

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Anker’s new 768Wh SOLIX C800 Plus power station with stowable camping light officially ships in March

Baua Electric

Today Anker is releasing its new SOLIX C800 Plus Portable Power Station , which we saw debut at CES 2024 and is the first power station with stowable camping lights that illuminates campsites and powers outdoor adventures. The SOLIX C800 Plus sports a compact 768Wh capacity with 1,600W of power output. hours via your car.

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EcoFlow Delta 2 power station with extra battery now $750 off at $1,049 in New Green Deals

Electrek

Whether you do or don’t, everyone should have a power station to keep the lights on or run your off-grid lifestyle. Today, we’re talking about the EcoFlow Delta 2 with an extra battery pack that pumps the capacity up to over 2kWh, ensuring there’s enough juice to run your entire campsite overnight.

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Stuff We Use: What’s the Best Battery Booster Pack?

The Truth About Cars

.& & Busted hoopties often have dead batteries, making the modern booster pack something of a must-have around these parts. Besides, that other car probably has a dead battery, too. & Even if the pack was fully charged, it would not awaken to provide juice to the car in question. & I was utterly mistaken.

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Ford unveils F-150 Lightning electric pickup; starting at $39,974; arriving in 2022

Green Car Congress

Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum, Lariat, XLT. America’s No. With the ability to offload 9.6

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Stuff We Use: Under Pressure (Washers)

The Truth About Cars

battery-powered household tools have come a long way from the Bad Old Days – and are even light years ahead in terms of performance than those on sale just a few years ago. The battery is a large cube and sits where the gasoline engine resided on my old pressure washer, consuming about the same amount of space.

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2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger: Charge It Up

The Truth About Cars

A 92-kilowatt-hour battery and a 130-kilowatt generator combine to bring the juice. It works like this -- the V6 produces mechanical power, the generator turns that into electric power, and that electric power either charges a depleted battery or goes right to the EDMs if the driver wants to save battery charge.