Feb 20, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
A new kind of battery could make American EVs cheaper and safer, experts say. But first, it will have to overcome trade barriers between the United States and China. If you bought an EV with a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, you could expect lower car payments,...
Feb 20, 2025 | Energy, Europe, Hydrogen, Uncategorized
French oil major TotalEnergies will develop two green hydrogen projects with industrial gases company Air Liquide, aiming to help decarbonise Total’s Dutch and Belgian refineries, they said on Tuesday. The two projects to build electrolysers represent a combined...
Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Freight, Hydrogen, Rail
The 2025 edition of Railway Age’s Next-Gen Freight Rail (NGFR) conference offers a presentation focused on rapidly evolving hydrogen-powered locomotive initiatives for main line freight rail applications. “Hydrogen Power for Main Line Heavy-Haul...
Feb 20, 2025 | Featured, Space
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far. Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly “tilt” the spacecraft’s orbit and allow it to see the...
Feb 20, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Delivery
The latest rolling delivery bot may not have arms to unload the goods, or articulating legs to tackle challenging obstacles, or even work in tandem with a robo-flyer. But the Robovan W5 does boast “autonomous capabilities and substantial...
Feb 20, 2025 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Shipping
Texas-based Saronic Technologies announced Tuesday it raised $600 million in private funding to build an autonomous shipyard it’s calling Port Alpha. The company plans to use the facility to grow its fleet of medium- and large-class autonomous surface...
Feb 20, 2025 | Auto Industry, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Nikola has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection months after saying that it would likely run out of cash early this year. Nikola was a hot start-up and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scandal and its founder was convicted in 2022...
Feb 20, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Oceanography, Robots
It’s spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton. The spring bloom has begun, and populations of these tiny...
Feb 20, 2025 | Smart Cities
‘Work smarter, not harder’ aren’t just words to live by for Western engineering professor Ayan Sadhu. For Sadhu, Canada Research Chair in Smart and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, it’s how cities like New York, Singapore and Seoul grew to become...
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