The Innovation Report
Electric-car Sales in China Expected to Double This Year
Sales of electric vehicles in China are likely to double this year, with Chinese EV makers sidestepping chips and parts shortages and getting creative around charging. That’s from analysts at Deutsche Bank in a note Monday highlighting June sales of what they called...
LG Chem to Invest $8.7 Billion in Boost to Battery Business
LG Chem Ltd. will spend 10 trillion won ($8.7 billion) through 2025 to accelerate a “sustainable growth” in its battery materials operations and other business lines, joining other South Korean industrial giants in a shift toward greener practices. The...
Electrify America to Double Number of Electric Vehicle Chargers in US by 2025
Electrify America will boost the number of electric vehicle chargers in North America to 10,000 by 2025. The companies, which are part of Volkswagen Group, already had plans in place to expand its footprint to 800 charging stations and 3,500 individual chargers the...
Tesla Captures Nearly Half Of Korean Electric Vehicle Market
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla saw its sales in South Korea jump 64.7 percent to 11,629 cars during the first six months of 2021 from a year before, according to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association. As the country's electric car market was...
Coventry Puts Forward ‘Mission Critical’ Plan For Electric Car Battery Plant
Plans for a “mission critical” electric car battery plant in Coventry have accelerated in a drive to keep automotive production at the heart of the West Midlands region. Coventry city council has put forward a blueprint for a 5.7m square feet “gigafactory”, which...
Climate Change: ‘One Of A Kind’ Research Buoy Launched Off Plymouth Coast
The most advanced autonomous buoy ever developed in the UK has been launched off the coast of Devon to monitor the health of our oceans. Plymouth Marine Laboratory has spent two years building the near nine-metre tall buoy, which is packed with sensors and...
Unmanned Aerial Systems For Forest Management
Airborne Light Detection and Ranging, called LiDAR, has used aircraft lasers to map large forested areas for over 30 years, but high costs and lack of color images have made it a less efficient resource for describing tree variation at smaller scales. Since 2010,...
Amtrak Invests $7.3 Billion in New Fleet of Modern Trains to Service Northeast
Amtrack is investing $7.3 billion in a new fleet of state-of-the-art trains, including some of its first hybrid-electric powered trains, to modernize its aging fleet and attract more travelers, the company said Wednesday. The company is buying up to 83 new trains that...
This Robot Fish Makes Seafood More Sustainable
Liane Thompson and her husband and business partner, Simeon Pieterkosky, were well ahead of the blue economy curve when they founded Aquaai in 2014. Simeon’s work was in robotics and climate change, but his daughter had the vision for their company’s priority. "I met...
Underwater Robot May Unearth Climate Mysteries
Two hundred meters under the sunny waves of the ocean lies the mesopelagic zone, a cold, dark section of water where humans rarely venture. This area, dubbed the “twilight zone,” houses animals like krill, squid, and jellyfish. Twilight zone animals play a major part...
