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Slate’s $25K Electric Pickup Will Shake Up The Auto Industry

“It’s a real truck.” That was my first thought as a $24,950 2027 Slate electric pickup accelerated down Figueroa Street on a cool Los Angeles morning this week. I didn’t realize...

Spacex Launches Starfall Mission For In-Space Manufacturing

SpaceX launched a demonstration mission Tuesday to send a reusable capsule into space and then recover it, part of a new program that may allow the Elon Musk-led company to tap...

Astemo Engineering Careers Tour Meets Marcis Jansons, Wayne State University

The Global Auto Mobility and Smart Mobility Today team spent the day on campus at Detroit’s Wayne State University just before winter break. During our visit, Cindy Polakowski...

EVs Can Power The Grid; Why Aren’t More Of Them Doing It?

When some EV owners in California and Massachusetts plug in their cars, the large batteries inside now serve a second purpose: sending power back to the grid when the vehicles do...

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Experts Gather for Inaugural NA SPICE Conference

The inaugural North American SPICE Conference took place on September 23–24, 2025, in Novi, Michigan. https://youtu.be/umkt1MHXhM8?si=g2KzOh1h3xWjLn4E Chad Kymal, NA Spice Chair and Omnex Founder and CTO, talks about his vision for the first SPICE conference to be...

Smart Mobility Today: 29 September 2025

There is a Japanese philosophy called Kaizen which is often associated with business tactics, but the origin is much older and has a deeper meaning. Kaizen requires us to connect with who we want to be, and then align our actions in that direction to reach our goals....

LG Chem Opens Autonomous Robotic Lab

South Korea's largest chemical company, LG Chem, said Monday it has launched an autonomous robotic lab at its research center to perform hazardous tests without human intervention. The Seoul-based company said that the new lab at the Daejeon Technology Research...