Oct 5, 2023 | China, Electric Vehicles, Europe, Featured
The European Union said Wednesday that it had “sufficient evidence” of illegal Chinese electric car subsidies as it officially launched an inquiry that has enraged Beijing. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen raised hackles in China when she...
Oct 5, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Testing, Trucks
Not long ago, cars topped with a futuristic apparatus could regularly be seen cruising along Pittsburgh’s streets, testing technology that allowed the vehicles to get around without a person steering the wheel. But such car sightings have become rare as the autonomous...
Sep 28, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Roads, Traffic
If you think your morning or evening commutes have gotten busier, you’re not alone. New Census Bureau survey data shows drivers across America are dealing with longer commute times, as commuting using cars is crawling back post-pandemic. The rate of people...
Sep 28, 2023 | Charging, Electric Vehicles, US Economy
Recently, a Washington Post story and a study from a research group issued warnings that charging an EV could cost more than filling a car with gasoline. Then CleanTechnica did their own study, concluding the opposite. Since EVs tend to cost...
Sep 28, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Trucks
California Gov. Gavin Newsome vetoed Assembly Bill 316, which would have banned driverless autonomous trucks over 10,000 pounds from California roads. He said the regulation was unnecessary and existing laws provide sufficient authority for oversight and regulatory...
Sep 28, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Disabilities
On the surface, autonomous vehicles would seem to be an intuitively disability-inclusive concept. After all, many individuals living with physical, sensory or cognitive disabilities are unable to drive and therefore benefit from the associated privilege and...
Sep 28, 2023 | Climate, Featured, Solar
The window to limit human-caused warming to a globally agreed goal is narrowing but still open because of the huge growth of solar energy and electric vehicles sales worldwide, a report said Tuesday. For the last two years, the rate of the build up...
Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, Robots, Space
NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) is working on a network of mini mobile robots, almost the size of a shoebox, that can work together as a team to autonomously explore planetary surfaces including the rugger lunar terrain....
Sep 28, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, US Economy
The first topic of discussion in Wednesday night’s Republican presidential primary debate was the United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three auto manufacturers. The first candidate to address the underlying issues directly was former Vice...
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