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VanMoof’s PowerBank is a range extender and problem solver

VanMoof S3 with PowerBank arriving at Castricum aan Zee from Amsterdam.Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge We put a new 2021 S3 model to the test on a three-hour ride VanMoof, maker of some of our favorite electric bikes, just announced the PowerBank, a range extender that also charges the internal battery of the… Read more

The wanderer: Opel's Zafira-e Life Elegance electric van in the test

Get on instead of getting in: The Opel Zafira-e Life is a bus. The production of the van of the same name (test) was discontinued. Buyers now want SUVs like the Opel Grandland X (test) or the Opel Mokka. Or they like those box vans that are often called Bulli even without the VW logo:… Read more

Vergecast: this week’s Section 230 hearing and the season of weird gadgets

This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) yells at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gadget makers are going to QVC, and it is weird phone season once again. Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior reporter Adi Robertson about the latest congressional hearing with the big tech… Read more