Feb 6, 2025 | Batteries, Electric Vehicles
Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina (TBMNC), Toyota’s first in-house battery manufacturing plant outside Japan, is ready to begin production and will start shipping batteries for North American electrified vehicles in April. The nearly $14 billion...
Feb 6, 2025 | Energy, Featured, Robots, Solar
The world’s hunger for energy is growing at an unprecedented rate thanks to growing manufacturing and AI data centers. And our current electric generation capabilities just can’t cope with the demand. The situation is so dire that the International Energy...
Feb 6, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Robotaxis, Smart Cities
In 2025, city leaders are bracing for change. That’s in part coming from a new administration in the White House and one-party control of Congress, which is likely to bring new policies and discard some from the prior administration. Those new priorities will be...
Feb 6, 2025 | Climate, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Transportation sector emissions have accelerated the climate crisis – automobiles are the second-largest source of greenhouse gases and have nearly doubled since 1990 – but they may soon be thrown in reverse thanks to electric vehicles. New research from the...
Feb 6, 2025 | Drones, Featured
Last time we checked in on terrifying drone developments in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainians were dropping molten thermite along Russian trench lines and attaching surface-to-air missiles to naval drones. Possessing a far smaller...
Feb 6, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots
Humanoid robots could soon move in a far more realistic manner — and even dance just like us — thanks to a new software framework for tracking human motion. Developed by researchers at UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, MIT, and Nvidia, “ExBody2” is a new...
Feb 6, 2025 | Featured, Space
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract for a moon lander that’s expected to last for years in the harsh environment of the lunar surface. The European Space Agency handed Thales Alenia Space a contract worth nearly $900 million to build...
Feb 6, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Trucks
Autonomous transportation startup Waabi and Volvo will jointly develop and deploy self-driving trucks in a deal announced on Tuesday that expands on Volvo’s strategic investment in the company. Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Waabi will integrate Waabi Driver...
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