The Innovation Report
Leased and Used EVs Qualify for Federal Tax Credits
The U.S. Department of Treasury’s gift to electric-vehicle shoppers (and global automakers) for the new year was to make many more EVs and plug-in hybrids eligible for the federal tax subsidy of up to $7,500 — including vehicles built outside North America — as long...
PennDOT Receives $171.5 M to Expand EV Infrastructure
This is part of the bipartisan infrastructure law, which will distribute those funds to PennDOT in the next five years. The money will be used for charging stations as well as workforce training, planning, and program management. More from CBS News
US Official Warns of Risks Posed by Heavy EVs
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board expressed concern Wednesday about the safety risks that heavy electric vehicles pose if they collide with lighter vehicles. The official, Jennifer Homendy, raised the issue in a speech in Washington to the...
New Lunar Satellites Will Enable Autonomous Space Travel to the Moon for Astronauts
NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis I mission will send the uncrewed spacecraft around the moon to test the vehicle’s...
Space Solar Power Satellite Could Help Realize Our Sci-Fi Dreams of Unlimited Energy
Harnessing the power of the sun is all the rage right now. At the end of 2022, US scientists announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough that could, in a few decades, see a clean, renewable and essentially unlimited energy source powering the world. In reality, we've...
These Robots Crawl Over Wind Turbines So Humans Don’t Have To
Aerones uses robots to repair, inspect, clean, and ice-proof wind turbines, and the Latvia-based startup just raised $38.9 million in funding. TechCrunch reported that the funding was raised this month “from dozens of undisclosed investors.” And according to...
Germany Breaks Record for Electricity Generation From Wind
Germany produced a record amount of electricity from wind on Wednesday, helping to reduce the need to burn fossil fuels as Europe battles an energy crisis. The nation’s wind farms generated 50,232 megawatts, according to data from the European Energy Exchange....
Plug Power Previews Potential of a Green Hydrogen Highway
About 100 miles from Niagara Falls, where Nikola Tesla’s hydroelectric power plant design—a landmark in renewable energy—was first implemented (way back in 1895), a hydrogen energy solutions provider called Plug Power is building out one of this century’s...
Why Fusion Energy is a Game Changer for Every Business
The news of a successful fusion energy test at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California was met with both fascination and trepidation. All this talk of nuclear energy and "unleashing the energy of the sun" makes people...
A Potentially Revolutionary Solar Harvester Just Left the Planet
Following over a decade of research, including two years of testing origami-inspired components, a small prototype satellite designed to harvest solar energy launched yesterday morning aboard SpaceX’s most recent Falcon 9 rocket...
