Nov 16, 2023 | Charging, Diesel, Solar
An Oct. 25 Instagram video (link) shows an Australian electric vehicle charging station that includes a large blue diesel generator. “Look! It’s an electric charger for an electric car, and right there that is a diesel-powered generator to run your electric charging...
Nov 16, 2023 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Featured
In September, car manufacturer Toyota published a battery technology roadmap, outlining their research focus and their goals for producing a diverse, all-electric fleet in the next decade. This alone is not that surprising – the electrification of the automotive...
Nov 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
NASA has temporarily stopped sending commands to its Mars-exploring robots, but there’s nothing to worry about. We’re currently experiencing a “Mars solar conjunction,” a two-week stretch in which Earth and the Red Planet are situated on...
Nov 16, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
The Vatican on Wednesday signed an agreement with German carmaker Volkswagen to replace the city-state’s entire car fleet with electric vehicles by 2030. The governor’s office of the world’s smallest state gave no financial details of the deal in a...
Nov 15, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Uncategorized
Cruise, General Motors’ embattled driverless car unit, said Tuesday it will pause all public road operations — both supervised and manual — in an expansion of last month’s pause of driverless operations. “This orderly pause is a further step to...
Nov 15, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
Autonomous trucks are slowly hitting the road, mostly on interstates in Texas and the Southwest, with a human driver on board, standing by, or traveling in platoons behind a lead truck driven by a person. Maersk is running Kodiak Robotics trucks between warehouses in...
Nov 9, 2023 | Energy, Hydrogen, Power
GE Vernova is in partnership to develop a green-hydrogen peaking power supply for a Duke Energy power plant in Florida, adapting a GE gas turbine to operate with flexible fuel sources, including 100% green hydrogen. GE Vernova is joining Duke Energy in its development...
Nov 9, 2023 | Drones, Featured
Amazon launched their delivery programme years ago in two US cities, College Station, Texas and Lockeford, California amid a lot of fanfare. However, since then, Amazon Prime Air has proven to be impractical. At times, all it can deliver is a can of soup. Amazon...
Nov 9, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Nature
A biotech startup aiming to bring back the wooly mammoth is partnering with an elephant conservation organization to use drones and AI to track African elephants and study their behavior. The big picture: High-tech tools are increasingly being deployed...
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