by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2021 | Autonomous Vehicles
General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary plans to start running a fully autonomous taxi service in San Francisco next year. Doug Parks, GM’s product development and purchasing chief, told analysts Thursday that he has ridden in a Cruise vehicle with no...
by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2021 | Climate
Methane is worse for climate change than carbon emissions. But to stop it, we first need to find it. To explain how high-tech aerial photography can help save the planet, research scientist Riley Duren refers to a map of Los Angeles, where a pixelated blue and green...
by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2021 | Charging, Electric Vehicles
Standing on the rear third-floor deck of the Blacks in Green building on South Cottage Grove Avenue, Naomi Davis and Stacey McIlvaine looked out over the desert that is West Woodlawn. Davis, an environmental activist, and McIlvaine, an electrician, had come together...
by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, Investment
German auto giant Volkswagen said on Thursday that it would bulk up its investment in electric vehicles and digitalisation to 89 billion euros ($101 billion) over the next five years. The 12-brand group will dedicate 56 percent of its 159 billion euros of investment...
by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2021 | Agriculture, Drones, Michigan
In the sky above one of the largest Christmas tree farms in North America, visitors are more likely to hear the whirring blades of a drone helicopter than the jingle of Santa’s sleigh. “We fly over a field and, using drones, we collect imagery and create 3-D models...
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