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Electrek
U.S. pro-electric-vehicle, clean-energy advocacy (center-left on energy policy)
Electrek is a niche news site on electric vehicles and clean energy. It is owned by Seth Weintraub's privately held 9to5 network and funded mainly by ads and affiliate links. Its coverage openly favors EVs and renewable energy, and it is currently broadly critical of Trump administration policies that cut EV incentives and roll back clean-energy and emissions rules.
Owned byOwned by Seth Weintraub, founder of the privately held 9to5 network (9to5Mac, 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, DroneDJ, Electrek), operated as 9to5 Media. Fred Lambert is editor-in-chief.
LeaningU.S. pro-electric-vehicle, clean-energy advocacy (center-left on energy policy)
On the administrationbroadly critical
4.3average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun