Jun 30, 2026 | Auto Industry, Electric Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
“It’s a real truck.” That was my first thought as a $24,950 2027 Slate electric pickup accelerated down Figueroa Street on a cool Los Angeles morning this week. I didn’t realize just how skeptical I’d been of Slate’s do-it-yourself EV till that moment. Pieces didn’t...
Jun 29, 2026 | Smart Mobility Today
As I cut the lawn the other day, I heard a loud buzz, like a giant bumble bee. I looked up to see a drone a couple of hundred feet up streaming above my house. It moved with purpose, definitely on a mission. My thoughts immediately went to who sent it, where is it...
Jun 25, 2026 | Data Centers, Water
Microsoft announced Wednesday that over the past two decades, it has become dramatically more efficient in its use of water to cool data centers, slashing its consumption rate by 90% compared to levels when it opened its first facilities in the early 2000s. The...
Jun 25, 2026 | Autonomous Ships, Military
Autonomous boats helped escort a U.S. Army vessel during a recent military exercise, the Army said, in a demonstration of how uncrewed assets are changing maritime operations. Soldiers from the 125th Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Battalion,...
Jun 25, 2026 | Robots, Space
Two tiny transforming robots landed on the moon! They accompanied Japan’s first successful lunar lander called SLIM – Smart Lander for Investigating Moon and are the size of a baseball. They rolled out of SLIM as balls and transformed into a rover by...
Jun 25, 2026 | China, Electric Vehicles
The war in Iran has helped reshape the global electric vehicle market, giving Chinese automakers an opening across the developing world as soaring fuel prices push drivers towards electric vehicles, even as charging infrastructure lags behind a wave of imports. The...
Jun 25, 2026 | Featured, Manufacturing, Space
SpaceX launched a demonstration mission Tuesday to send a reusable capsule into space and then recover it, part of a new program that may allow the Elon Musk-led company to tap into the emerging market of in-space manufacturing. Under the Starfall program, which...
Jun 25, 2026 | Education, Engineering, Featured
The Global Auto Mobility and Smart Mobility Today team spent the day on campus at Detroit’s Wayne State University just before winter break. During our visit, Cindy Polakowski and John Petty met with Marcis Jansons, Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering...
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