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REI’s bicycle brand Co-op Cycles has just unveiled its first ever in-house developed electric mountain bike, the Co-op Cycles DRT e3.1. Co-op Cycles maintains a healthy list of two-wheelers in its lineup, including several electric models. But this is the first time we’ve seen a dedicated electric mountain bike like this from the brand, developed

Sir Ian McKellen has said he is not a fan of how modern theatre audiences are mollycoddled with warning signs pandering to sensitivities. Speaking to Sky News ahead of the first night of the London transfer of his new play Frank and Percy, the 84-year-old X-Men and Lord Of The Rings star said: “Outside theatres

At the Japan Mobility Show next month, Honda will showcase several new products and tech, including a new electric sports car that will headline the booth. The new electric sports car will “enable the driver to experience the pure joy of driving,” according to Honda. Although the automaker was light on the details behind the

Russell Brand has said he is “incredibly moved” by the “ongoing support” of his fans – following sexual abuse allegations against him. In his latest post on video platform Rumble, he said: “Thank you for joining us, I can hardly express my gratitude towards you sufficiently, and thank you for the ongoing support, all of

The International Energy Agency (IEA) released its 2023 Net Zero Roadmap today – here’s what’s happened since 2021 and what must urgently happen before 2030. EV and solar lead the way The International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap sets out what would need to happen in the global energy sector in the years and decades ahead

Actor and musician David McCallum has died at the age of 90 from natural causes. The Scottish-born star died this morning surrounded by his family at New York Presbyterian Hospital. McCallum is survived by his wife of 56 years, Katherine McCallum, his sons Paul McCallum, Valentine McCallum and Peter McCallum, his daughter Sophie McCallum and

A new fall sale has gone live on a collection of popular Juiced e-bikes. With as much as $900 off select models that we’ve walked away impressed by here at Electrek, the savings all start at $999. There’s also this Greenworks 3000 PSI electric pressure washer at $320 to go alongside Rad Power’s 10% off

Russell Brand has accused the government of trying to “bypass” the judicial system after his YouTube channel was demonetised in the wake of sexual abuse allegations against him. In a livestream video on Rumble the comedian also accused the “legacy media” of being in “lockstep” with each other to “support a state agenda” and “silence

The US battery energy storage market added 5,597 megawatt hours (MWh) in the second quarter of 2023, a new quarterly record. The grid-scale segment of the industry drove the market with a record-breaking 5,109 MWh in Q2, beating the previous record in Q4 2021 by 5%, according to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power

With the latest iPhone now in people’s hands and Google’s annual Android flagship not far behind, it’s a pertinent time to release a film about the once iconic device that paved the way for both. BlackBerry hasn’t appeared alongside them on shop shelves for years, and any remaining devices were effectively killed off last January

Tesla has released an update with progress on its Optimus humanoid robot with a video that almost looks like CGI. Optimus, also known as Tesla Bot, has not been taken seriously by many outside of the more hardcore Tesla fans, and for good reasons. When it was first announced, it seemed to be a half-baked

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Elon Musk reveals that Tesla has a ‘performance Cybertruck’ – indicating that it could be one of the first versions of the electric pickup truck. Tesla is on the verge of delivering the first Cybertruck. Despite the automaker having produced likely hundreds of trucks and being about to start deliveries, there’s still a lot we

Doctor Who fans were given a surprise on Saturday – with a new trailer showing the return of two beloved characters. Just as viewers were about to be transported in the ballroom for the first Strictly Come Dancing live show of 2023, they took a quick detour via the TARDIS. Tennant was one of the

This DC fast charging station tells EV drivers when renewable energy is at its peak in the grid – and thus when charging prices are cheapest. The “Better Energy Charge” station in Sønderborg, Denmark, is owned by renewable energy company Better Energy. (It sits next to the company’s R&D solar park.) What makes this charging

Gender fluidity and climate change are not the hot-button topics you’d expect from an author writing more than 400 years ago. But it’s Shakespeare‘s “contemporary” outlook that means he will “last a great deal longer than the culture wars,” according to Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) artistic director emeritus Gregory Doran. While parts of the Bard’s

Russell Brand has told his online followers it has been a “distressing” week, in a video breaking his silence after sexual assault allegations were made against him. In a short video shared on YouTube and other social media websites, he briefly addresses the claims levelled at him by the Channel 4 Dispatches and Sunday Times

China’s largest automaker, BYD, launched its Dolphin electric car in Mexico Friday, expanding the brand in North America. With the 500,000th Dolphin EV also rolling off the line, the affordable EV looks to be a global powerhouse. After launching its low-cost Dolphin electric hatchback in Japan to take on Toyota, BYD is now bringing it

CITV – the channel that gave us Fraggle Rock, Danger Mouse and Rainbow – has left our terrestrial screens. CBBC – home of Blue Peter and Newsround – plans to follow. Meanwhile real-term investment in children’s TV by public service broadcasters has dropped by 30% in the last 10 years. Image: Geoffrey, Bungle, George and

It seems everything is moving online these days, so it’s perhaps no surprise that kids’ TV is too. CITV, ITV’s children’s channel, is no more; it’s moving to the company’s streaming service, ITVX. Its BBC equivalent, CBBC, is expected to also be online-only in the next few years. Many children nowadays, though, just go to