Mar 3, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, Wind
Singapore’s marine logistics firm Marco Polo Marine has signed an agreement with F-drones, a company developing large scale autonomous delivery drones, to co-develop the world’s first large-scale, electric aerial delivery drones for offshore wind farms. ...
Mar 3, 2022 | Environment, Robots
All living organisms need heavy metals like zinc and iron to survive and properly function. But increasingly, metals from industrial waste, mining, landfills, and even overcrowded cemeteries are leaching into the environment and contaminating it. Exposure to...
Mar 3, 2022 | Business, Detroit, Mobility
Tier Mobility, the Berlin-based micromobility operator that has been steadily taking over Europe, is making a sweeping entry into North America by acquiring Spin from automaker Ford. Tier will acquire all of Spin’s 50,000 e-scooters and e-bikes, bringing the...
Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Robots
Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) form floating rafts made up of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual insects. A new study by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder lays out the simple physics-based rules that govern how these ant rafts morph...
Mar 3, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Entertainment
While the shift toward e-mobility poses major challenges for some traditional automotive manufacturers, it provides a perfect opportunity for companies from outside the sector to enter the industry. In the meantime, it’s no longer just engineering skills and...
Mar 3, 2022 | Defense, Drones
In a video that went viral on Twitter Sunday night, a massive explosion rips through what appears to be a Russian convoy, scoring a direct hit on a surface-to-air missile system. The black-and-white footage, posted to the account of the Ukrainian armed forces, is one...
Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Space
The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater big enough to fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash into the far side of the moon Friday while traveling at 5,800 miles per hour. The impact will...
Mar 3, 2022 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
A lab at San Diego State University is filled with bundles of wires, some of them attached to battery cells being tested. Near the center of the room is a black, steel case containing about 300 of those cells and weighing more than a thousand pounds. It’s a car...
Mar 3, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford is creating two new business units, one for electric vehicles and software and another for its traditional internal combustion vehicles. These companies will report their financial results separately from the rest of Ford but they will not be spun off as entirely...
Mar 3, 2022 | Detroit, Electric Vehicles
The reorganization was obvious and expected. Both divisions will be headed by the Ford parent company. “Nothing interesting so far. But wait. Things are about to take an interesting turn,” writes TheStreet’s Luc Olinga. The electric vehicle division...
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