The Innovation Report
New Recycling Techniques Set to Make EVs Greener
Researchers in Britain and the United States have found ways to recycle electric vehicle batteries that can drastically cut costs and carbon emissions, shoring up sustainable supplies for an expected surge in demand. The techniques, which involve retrieving parts of...
Electric Vehicles: The Hidden Costs To You And The Environment
The electric-car transition is here. Car maker after car maker is committing to selling electric vehicles. General Motors will go all-electric by 2035. Volkswagen has said it will increase its proportion of electric vehicles to 70% by 2030. Audi will stop designing...
Nissan to Make New EV, Batteries in Britain
Japanese carmaker Nissan and its partners plan to invest 1 billion ($1.4 billion) pounds to expand production of electric vehicles and batteries in northeast England, a major victory for the U.K. government’s efforts to attract jobs and investment following the...
GM Pours Even More Cash Into Its Electric Vehicle Plans
General Motors' plan back in March 2020 was to invest $20 billion over five years in electric and autonomous vehicles. That money would go toward building and equipping factories, engineering expenses, and other development costs. At the time, GM aimed to sell more...
Airspeeder Wants to Make Electric Flying Racing Cars a Reality in 2021
While much of the eVTOL industry has its sights set on urban air taxis or cargo transportation, entrepreneur Matthew Pearson had another idea: electric flying race cars. So in 2019, he founded two companies, Alauda Aeronautics to manufacture the aircraft and...
UK in Talks to Build Battery ‘Gigafactories’ for EVs
The UK government has held talks with six manufacturers about building “gigafactory” electric car battery plants as part of its efforts to improve the prospects of the British automotive industry. The US carmaker Ford and the Korean electronics conglomerates LG and...
FedEx to Test Nuro’s Autonomous Robot Cars for Package Delivery
FedEx says it will test package deliveries using autonomous vehicles under a new multi-year partnership with Nuro, a leading self-driving startup. Why it matters: The explosion of e-commerce has accelerated demand for reliable, autonomous transportation throughout the...
Fusion of AI and Nanopore Technology Enables Rapid Point-of-Care COVID Test
A team of scientists headed by SANKEN (The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research) at Osaka University demonstrated that single virus particles passing through a nanopore could be accurately identified using machine learning. The test platform they created...
Chinese Surveillance Cameras Targeted by FCC Over Security
U.S. regulators are poised to ban products from Huawei Technologies Co. and four other Chinese electronics companies, including surveillance cameras widely used by American schools but linked to oppression in western China, stepping up pressure on tech suppliers...
Scientists Teaching Drones to Hunt Down Human Screams
If someone created a flying machine capable of tracking you down by listening for your voice, you might be creeped out. But what if you were pinned under a pile of rubble after a natural disaster and first responders couldn’t locate you? Maybe then a human-seeking...
