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Umar Shakir

Umar Shakir

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Umar Shakir is a news reporter for The Verge, covering electric cars and more. He's spent over 15 years in IT support beforehand, including managing Macs for a University and also fixing them at the Genius Bar. Umar likes collecting video game cartridges, watching football, and hanging in shopping center parking lots waiting for his EV to charge.

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The Nissan Leaf’s bi-directional charging dream continues.

The Leaf still hasn’t quite gone quietly into the night. Instead, Nissan is revitalizing its bi-directional charging abilities by approving new vehicle-to-grid charging hardware from Fermata Energy. Compared to the previous hardware, the new FE-20 is cheaper and supports 33 percent more power and additional UL and IEEE certifications. I’d say it’s a small win for the dying CHAdeMO charging port standard, too.


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I guess we’ll see more Cybertrucks on Craigslist?

Tesla quietly removed a controversial no-resale-for-a-year clause in the Cybertruck purchase contract.

There’s no indication that the automaker ever enforced the clause, but Tesla did cancel someone’s other two Cybertruck reservations when they tried to sell their first Cybertruck.