Jul 15, 2021 | Business, Electric Vehicles
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla saw its sales in South Korea jump 64.7 percent to 11,629 cars during the first six months of 2021 from a year before, according to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association. As the country’s electric car...
Jul 15, 2021 | Electric Vehicles
Plans for a “mission critical” electric car battery plant in Coventry have accelerated in a drive to keep automotive production at the heart of the West Midlands region. Coventry city council has put forward a blueprint for a 5.7m square feet “gigafactory”, which...
Jul 8, 2021 | Climate, Oceanography, Solar, Wind
The most advanced autonomous buoy ever developed in the UK has been launched off the coast of Devon to monitor the health of our oceans. Plymouth Marine Laboratory has spent two years building the near nine-metre tall buoy, which is packed with sensors and...
Jul 8, 2021 | Aerial Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Forests
Airborne Light Detection and Ranging, called LiDAR, has used aircraft lasers to map large forested areas for over 30 years, but high costs and lack of color images have made it a less efficient resource for describing tree variation at smaller scales. Since 2010,...
Jul 8, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, Hybrids, Investment, Mobility, Transit
Amtrack is investing $7.3 billion in a new fleet of state-of-the-art trains, including some of its first hybrid-electric powered trains, to modernize its aging fleet and attract more travelers, the company said Wednesday. The company is buying up to 83 new trains that...
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