Dec 7, 2023 | Featured, Jobs, Robots
Amazon recently began testing a new robot in its warehouse operations — meet Digit, a humanoid bipedal robot with a turquoise torso and smiley eyes. Designed by Agility Robotics, which Amazon has invested in as part of its Industrial Innovation Fund, Digit is only the...
Dec 7, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, Michigan
All state government vehicles in Michigan will be electric by 2040 after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive mandating the state fleet be converted to zero-emission on Dec. 5. Departments across the state have more than 8,000...
Dec 7, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured, US Economy
Americans purchased one million fully electric vehicles in 2023, the first time that many EVs have ever been sold in this country in a single year. More than 960,000 purely electric vehicles had been sold through October, according to a report from Bloomberg New...
Nov 30, 2023 | Charging, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Crews have installed what’s billed as the nation’s first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street just west of downtown Detroit. Copper inductive charging coils allow vehicles equipped with receivers to charge up their...
Nov 30, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
Mounting concerns over self-driving cars – headlined by allegations autonomous vehicle maker Cruise misled the DMV about an accident in San Francisco that left a pedestrian seriously injured – have some questioning whether the state needs new laws and new watchdogs to...
Nov 30, 2023 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Electric vehicles may be the future, but in some ways they look a lot like the past. Particularly reliability. That’s the bottom line from Consumer Reports’ eagerly anticipated annual reliability survey, which sounds like an ‘80s tribute act: the top tier, brands...
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