The Innovation Report
How To Guarantee AV Safety
Driverless cars and planes are no longer the stuff of the future. In the city of San Francisco alone, two taxi companies have collectively logged 8 million miles of autonomous driving through August 2023. And more than 850,000 autonomous aerial vehicles, or drones,...
Massachusetts To Spend $50 Million On EV Charging Projects
Massachusetts is directing $50 million toward EV charging projects in the state, with a goal of making it easier for residents to charge their electric vehicles. The money from the American Rescue Plan Act will go toward adding and improving EV charging stations,...
Battery Breakthrough Allows EVs To Go 1,000 Km On Single Charge
A lithium-ion battery breakthrough using tiny silicon particles and a gel polymer may lead to electric vehicles that can travel around 1000 km, or over 600 miles, on a single charge, scientists say. Drivers have consistently reported suffering...
New Jersey Transit’s Access Link Pilot Expands
NJ Transit is expanding its wildly successful Access Link pilot program. Access Link users in seven more counties will be eligible to opt in to the program, which makes other services such as Lyft and Black & White Taxi available to pick up riders using...
‘Spacewoman’ Celebrates NASA’s Eileen Collins, 1st Woman Space Commander
The first female space commander will be featured in a new documentary. The story of retired NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be retold in "Spacewoman," a documentary coming in 2025 based on Collins' memoir "Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars" (Arcade,...
Autonomous Tech Featured In Senate Border And Foreign Aid Bill
The Senate’s bipartisan border security and foreign aid package released on Sunday would allocate millions of dollars toward the deployment of innovative technologies along the U.S.-Mexico border, including more autonomous systems and new artificial intelligence...
Colorado Mining Company Reaches Deal To Supply EV Battery Giant
A Denver-area graphite mining company struck a deal to supply a South Korean battery giant with key ingredients for the U.S. electric vehicle battery factories it’s opening in the South. South Korean battery maker SK On, supplier to Ford, Hyundai and others, reached...
How Data And AI Could Change London
With growing pressure to cut carbon emissions and reduce the number of vehicles on the road, some small cameras could help provide the answer to London's emission woes. You could easily miss it. It's a small triangular grey box high up on a lamp-post but it could hold...
Ex-Eve Ceo Shifts Focus To Regional Air Mobility
At Embraer spinoff Eve Air Mobility, founder and former Co-CEO Andre Stein was a pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM). Now, as new CEO of Eviation, he is shifting his focus to electrifying small commuter airplanes for regional air mobility (RAM) services. But despite...
Crash Tests Show Highway Guardrails Can’t Handle Heavy EVs
Crash tests indicate nation's guardrail system can't handle heavy electric vehicles Battery weights are too much for current road safety equipment, since EVs are 25 percent to 50 percent heavier than gas-powered cars. Electric vehicles that typically weigh more...
