Jan 4, 2024 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured, US Economy
General Motors said on Wednesday it is offering incentives of $7,500 on its electric vehicles that earlier this week lost a U.S. government tax credit, while Ford Motor said it is hiking the prices of some of its F-150 EVs by $10,000. The Treasury issued guidelines in...
Jan 4, 2024 | Electric Vehicles
The number of electric vehicle models eligible for a consumer tax credit of as much as $7,500 fell sharply as new rules from the Biden administration kicked in on Jan. 1. Narrower criteria reduced the number of qualifying models to 13 from about two dozen, according...
Jan 4, 2024 | Electric Vehicles
Tesla found new homes for 1.8 million electric vehicles last year, it revealed on Tuesday afternoon. That will no doubt please CEO Elon Musk—it means the company has met its sales volume goal given to investors when it released its 2022 financial results at the end of...
Jan 4, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Delivery, Safety, Testing
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has struck a deal with safety-focused software company Foretellix to help with virtual testing of its automated driving system, in a bid to cut R&D costs while still pushing the technology forward. The partnership, which the...
Jan 4, 2024 | Privacy, Safety, Smart Cities
Tools like smart streetlights help cities understand what’s going on at the ground level, but as solutions advance, officials say they should be easy to stand up and keep public privacy top of mind. Ease of deployment may be one area where the urban tech...
Jan 4, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Climate, Featured, Smart Cities
Let’s talk about one way that AI can help in the struggle against climate change… First of all, think about where people are mostly living across the world. They’re living in cities. Now, sometimes we get misconceptions about relative carbon footprints....
Jan 4, 2024 | Agriculture, Robots
At Larson Farms Inc., about 240 cows eat, rest and stand in line to be milked in a barn that is ran almost entirely by robots. The dairy operation is the fourth farm in Nebraska to implement the technology. “When we built the barn in 2018, we really were looking to...
Dec 21, 2023 | Healthcare, Robots
Because it was not possible to remove a hard-to-reach bulge in the central lymphatic system, a team of doctors from the Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) created a new drain to relieve the patient’s agonizing...
Dec 21, 2023 | Agriculture, Climate, Featured
In the ever-evolving landscape of agriculture, technology has emerged as a pivotal force, reshaping traditional farming practices and steering them towards sustainability. Smart agriculture, the integration of cutting-edge technologies into farming processes, is...
Dec 21, 2023 | Featured, Rideshare, Space
Space start-up Privateer, co-founded by the famed Apple technologist Steve Wozniak, will begin orbital tests of its ride-sharing orbital module Pono in January. The module, which launched on Dec. 1 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, was developed to...
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