The Innovation Report
German Home Solar Power Firm Sees Bright Future as Demand Soars
Soaring demand for home solar power systems in Germany could boost revenues at Solarwatt by more than 50% this year to 500 million euros ($538 million) and lift them to 1 billion euros in 2025, its chief executive told Reuters. "Growth is strong and healthy," Detlef...
Walmart Launches Drone Delivery in Utah
Nearly a decade ago, commercial drone delivery was considered ambitious. Now, some Utahns can order from a list of 10,000 items like a bag of chips or toothpaste. "From the time the customer orders the product on the website to the delivery to their house is 30...
SpaceX Launches 40 OneWeb Broadband Satellites
SpaceX launched a second batch of OneWeb internet satellites late Monday, helping the London-based company fill out its orbital constellation after Russia blocked planned Soyuz launches last year in the wake of western sanctions. Liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Space...
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....
