The Innovation Report
Global EV Sales Up 35% In October, Europe Ekes Out A Gain
Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose 35% in October from the same month last year, led by a 54% jump in sales in China, market research firm Rho Motion said on Wednesday. European sales rose just 0.8%, but were up in annual terms for the...
SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites On 2nd Leg Of Spaceflight Doubleheader
SpaceX launched 24 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida early this morning (Nov. 14) in the second half of a spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 24 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral...
California Agency Boosts Reporting Requirements For AV Incidents
A California state agency said on Thursday it is mandating enhanced data reporting requirements for autonomous vehicles including reports for incidents where self-driving cars get stuck. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is requiring companies to file...
Watch Autonomous Cars Do Doughnuts And Drift Sideways Round Corners
Toyota is teaching driverless cars to deliberately skid sideways at high speed while still safely navigating a course. The company says the technique wouldn’t be used on the road as part of the normal driving experience, but could give an autonomous car the ability to...
How The Built World Is Using Smart Building Systems To Get Greener
In the world’s major cities, they’re looking to smart building systems—systems that combine the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to drive up efficiency, reduce waste, and gain knowledge and insights. For the uninitiated, here’s how it works: a building...
Is The Future Of Trucking Autonomous And Electric?
In 2023, freight trucks moved $15 trillion worth of goods in the United States. Trucking is what keeps America's economy moving, plain and simple. Yet this workhorse of consumerism is now ripe for disruption. Advances in artificial intelligence, lasers, radar, and...
Wave-Predicting Robots Could Cut Green Energy Costs
New technology that enables robots to work stably in turbulent seas could make it cheaper, faster and safer to maintain offshore wind farms and tidal turbines, researchers say. Until now, the unpredictable nature of waves—which make it difficult for machines to remain...
End Of Year Opportunities: The DTE Energy Commercial and Industrial Program
Smart Mobility Today had a conversation with Jeremy Mondrella and learned about the DTE Commercial and Industrial Energy Efficiency Program. Jeremy, welcome to the show! Can you start the conversation by describing your role in DTE’s Commercial and Industrial Energy...
Naval Ships Go Autonomous With Saab-Designed Artificial Mind
Saab announced this week the arrival of something called the Autonomous Ocean Core. Technically a hardware and software suite, the tech is described as a ready-to-use autonomous control system meant to turn surface and subsurface ships into autonomous platforms...
Compute for Climate Fellowship Announces Eight New Startups Selected to Build Their Proof-of-Concepts for Free on AWS
Compute for Climate Fellowship Announces Eight New Startups Selected to Build Their Proof-of-Concepts for Free on AWS LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), an organization under the...
