On today’s episode of Quick Charge, the Trump administration has lost its first battle against state’s rights in California while Tesla faces down (what it’s calling) a union coup in Germany. Meanwhile, SoCal Edison puts 280 Chevy Silverado EV pickups to work on California’s roads and Colorado is putting up a bunch of new DC fast chargers.

We’ve also got a possible Honda-Nissan-Mitsubishi merger shaping up in Japan, some dumb thieves in China, 130 new hybrid bucket trucks getting to work in the northeast, and a massive, twin-rotor wind turbine that is finally online.

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Lucid’s luxury EV just got the Shaq treatment. A Lucid Air was converted into a slick two-door model so that Shaq could fit inside. Check out the custom electric car below.

Standing at 7 feet 1 inch tall, Shaq is much taller than most of us. It’s not easy to find a car you can fit in at that height. Well, not comfortably, at least.

You might remember the Buick LaCrosse ad from 2012, where it looked like the vehicle was actually built around Shaq because he appeared so big.

The big man has moved on from the NBA and is now a DJ known as DJ Diesel. To fit the persona, Shaq needed more than your average vehicle, so he turned to the Lucid Air. However, the electric luxury sedan wouldn’t cut it as a four-door model, so Shaq converted the Lucid Air into a two-door coupe.

Shaq shared the new vehicle on his Instagram Monday with the caption, “When you’re 7″1″, you’ve got to do things your own way.”

The conversion was done by West Coast Customs, known for its custom designs for celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Justin Bieber. The company even created a custom Range Rover “Stormer” for a member of the Dubai royal family.

Most recently, you may have heard about Mark Zuckerberg’s Porsche Cayenne turned mini-van. That was also a West Coast Customs design.

Although sales have been slower than Lucid planned, demand is starting to pick up. The EV maker delivered over 7,100 vehicles through the first six months of 2024, more than the roughly 6,000 delivered in total last year.

Maybe getting the Shaq treatment will help get the word out. Lucid just launched its second EV, the Gravity SUV, as it looks to expand the brand.

What do you think of Shaq’s custom Lucid Air? Would you buy a two-door Lucid coupe? Drop us a comment below and let us know.

Mingyang Smart Energy’s huge 16.6 megawatt (MW) OceanX, with its double-turbine, “V”-shaped floating wind platform, has begun operations.

Mingyang announced late last week that it had come online on LinkedIn. The single-capacity floating wind platform was launched from Guangzhou, China, in August and is now installed at Mingyang’s Yangjiang Qingzhou IV offshore wind farm off the southeast China coast.

The OceanX floating wind platform, engineered by MingYang Smart Energy for deepwater deployment (115 feet or 35 meters), was constructed by Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company in collaboration with China State Shipbuilding Corporation.

It features two MySE8.3-180 hybrid drive wind turbines with blade diameters of 597 feet (182 meters) and a capacity of 8.3 MW each. It’s capable of producing 54 million kWh annually, which is enough to power 30,000 Chinese households. It’s also durable enough to withstand winds of up to 161 mph (260 km/h) – and it keeps producing electricity.

OceanX’s 16,500-ton (15,000-tonne) floating platform is built with “ultra-high-performance concrete” and has a cable-stayed system. Its single-point mooring system allows it to ride waves as high as 98 feet (30 meters).

Floating offshore wind allows wind farms to be placed in deeper waters where winds are stronger and steadier. In China, along with Europe and the Americas, floating offshore wind projects are gaining momentum, with several pilot projects and commercial developments already in progress.

Read more: In a first, a German offshore wind farm will use Chinese turbines

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