Mar 13, 2025 | Batteries, Charging, Electric Vehicles
Shop around for a new car and you’ll come across an array of acronyms. There’s BEVs (battery electric vehicles), HEVs (hybrid electric vehicles), PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles), and of course that’s all in contrast to ICE (internal combustion engine) cars....
Mar 13, 2025 | Climate, Satellites, Space
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated that as global warming caused by...
Mar 13, 2025 | Environment, Featured, Trucks, US Economy
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA is reviewing the emissions rulemaking put in place under the Biden-Harris administration. The important part for trucking comes from targeting the Greenhouse Gas Emissions...
Mar 13, 2025 | Featured, Hydrogen
For the first time, scientists have observed water molecules splitting in real time to form hydrogen and oxygen. And right before they split, the molecules did something completely unexpected: They flipped 180 degrees. This micro acrobatic stunt takes energy, which...
Mar 13, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Training
Google DeepMind is launching two new AI models designed to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before.” The first, called Gemini Robotics, is a vision-language-action model capable of understanding new situations, even if it hasn’t been...
Mar 13, 2025 | Auto Industry, Featured, Tariffs
S&P Global Mobility said the ongoing global tariff war now puts the probability of the auto industry experiencing an extended disruption period at a startling 50%. That would mean several vehicle models will cease production, new-vehicle prices would have to rise...
Mar 13, 2025 | Energy, Featured, US Economy
The environmental group targeted by the Justice Department over a federal grant is suing a bank and the Trump administration for access to billions of dollars of awarded funding, which it says is still locked down. The nonprofit Climate United sued the...
Mar 10, 2025 | Education, Engineering
The University of Michigan will bring more artificial intelligence resources, research funding and computing power to its campus thanks to a partnership with OpenAI. The artificial intelligence and research deployment company behind ChatGPT on Tuesday announced...
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