Jun 8, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Waukegan, Ill., is an industrial suburb located about 26 miles north of Chicago’s city limits. Nicknamed “Wauk Town,” it is the birthplace of science fiction writer Ray Bradbury and has appeared in many films including “Groundhog Day,”...
Jun 1, 2023 | Disabilities, Featured, Robots
They look like freezer coolers on wheels, Lisa Johnson head of public affairs at Starship Technologies says. “It trundles along on its six little wheels and it can climb up and down the kerbs as well.” But as a robot designed to use pavements, it could...
Jun 1, 2023 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford is teaming up with Uber to offer flexible leases on electric vehicles to rideshare drivers. Uber is under pressure from governments around the world to get more of its drivers into EVs to reduce tailpipe pollution and fight climate change. And Ford is...
Jun 1, 2023 | Charging, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Imagine driving an electric car without ever needing to stop and recharge. Sounds like witchcraft, right? Well, it’s possible. And the answer isn’t in the car itself — it’s in the road. Electreon, an Israeli startup founded in 2013, is...
Jun 1, 2023 | Featured, Satellites, Space
A team of researchers want to put a wooden satellite into orbit. It’s not as outrageous as you might think. Results from a recent test aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which exposed different woods to the vacuum of space, have been...
Jun 1, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
With the cost of sensors ranging from $15 to $1,000, carmakers are beginning to question how many sensors are needed for vehicles to be fully autonomous at least part of the time. Those sensors are used to collect data about the surrounding environment, and they...
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