Fred Lambert is the Editor-in-Chief and one of the founding members of Electrek. He mainly covers electric vehicles and renewable energy.
He is also the co-founder of Combat Edge, a MMA stats website.
Lambert made a name in the EV space through a steady stream of exclusive scoops about Tesla, including being the first journalist to try Tesla’s Autopilot feature back in 2015. Lambert also repeatedly broke stories about new Tesla products like Enhanced Summon, Model S design refresh, Tesla Autopilot 2.5, and more.
In 2020, he was also the first to report that Tesla’s new planned Gigafactory in the US would be located in Austin, Texas months before the official announcement.
His reporting has been used by many mainstream news organizations, like the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and many more.
Lambert has appeared on television (CNBC) and has been featured in national papers for his expertise in electric vehicles.
You can contact him by email at fred@9to5mac.com or on Twitter @fredericLambert
An EV driver in Georgia called the police on the US Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, after her staff blocked a public charger with a gasoline car to “reserve” it for her upcoming convoy of EVs that she was using to highlight the White House investment in electric vehicles.
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A new excerpt from Elon Musk’s biography confirms that Tesla will build its first next-generation electric cars in Texas rather than at the upcoming Gigafactory Mexico.
This should be reassuring amid potential delays in building the new plant.
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Tesla’s (TSLA) stock is rising in pre-market trading on an optimistic new report about the automaker’s Dojo supercomputer coming from Morgan Stanley.
The firm massively increased its price target on Tesla’s stock because of it.
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Tesla’s upcoming $25,000 electric car and dedicated robotaxi vehicle will be both futuristic-looking and “Cybertruck-like,” according to new information found in the new Elon Musk authorized biography.
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Another Nikola truck has caught on fire in Phoenix today. It is the fourth fire incident involving Nikola trucks in just a few months – yet the company insists they are safe to drive.
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Tesla has reached the milestone of having deployed 50,000 Superchargers around the world. It took the automaker just over a decade to do it.
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Tesla has started Powerwall 3 installations despite not officially unveiling the product yet. The first installations confirm Electrek‘s first exclusive reports, but we are still missing details.
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Tesla has secured a deal to deploy up to 20,000 Universal Wall Connectors, the automaker’s clever new charging station, at 2,000 Hilton hotel locations.
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Honda announced that it will adopt the Tesla-designed NACS connector in its electric vehicles in North America.
The Japanese automaker had already signaled that the move to NACS was coming, but now it has secured a deal with Tesla.
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Tesla Gigafactory Mexico might be coming online quite a bit later than expected, according to supplier sources.
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Tesla has announced that Gigafactory Shanghai has produced its 2 millionth electric vehicle – making it the most productive EV factory.
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On the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Electrek’s trip to IAA, seeing the Model 3 Highland in person, the electric GTI and more.
Tesla has increased the price of its yoke steering wheel to now $1,000, which is a big change from the feature being standard not long ago.
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Tesla has launched a new accessory in partnership with McDonald’s, and it is so dumb that CEO Elon Musk didn’t believe it was real.
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Today, we get a close look in person at the Tesla Model 3 refresh – aka Model 3 Highland – in Munich for IAA.
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A Tesla Cybertruck prototype was spotted towing a quite large trailer – giving hope that it will be a useful work truck.
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On 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’s launch of the Model 3 refresh, Model S/X and FSD pricing update, FSD Beta trying to kill me, and more.
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) tumbled today on price cuts across its lineup and the dream sold by Elon Musk that Tesla vehicles will become an “appreciating asset” is going away.
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Tesla is testing the Cybertruck with a dual-motor powertrain, according to new pictures of a prototype of the electric pickup truck.
We also get a good look at the interior.
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I was testing Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta update last night (v11.4.7), and a new aggressive bug has nearly made me crash at highway speed twice.
Please take this as a public service announcement.
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We just received new pictures from an anonymous source alleging that this is the new updated Tesla Model 3 project, “Highland.”
What do you think?
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The Biden-Harris Administration announced $15 billion in funding to retool existing factories so that these factories can produce electric vehicles and batteries.
This is a lifeline for legacy automakers struggling to be profitable in the EV transition.
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LUMA, a Puerto Rico electric utility, has received the green light to build a virtual power plant (VPP) with Tesla Powerwalls in Puerto Rico.
It should help with the territory’s major issues amid heat waves.
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Tesla is now under federal investigation by the DOJ over potentially using company resources to build a mansion for Elon Musk.
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