No More Dealer Markups: Ford Wants To Move To Online-Only Sales For EVs
by Jonathan Gitlin: Ford thinks its distribution model costs $2,000 more per car than Tesla’s… […]
Geothermal Plants Could Solve America’s Lithium Supply – Boost the EV Battery Industry
bt Bryant Jones, Michael McKibben: Geothermal energy has long been the forgotten member of the clean energy family, […]
Social Media Break Improves Mental Health, Study Suggests
Asking people to stop using social media for just one week could lead to significant improvements in their wellbeing, depression and anxiety and could, in the future… […]
Wickedly Fast Frontier Supercomputer Officially Ushers in the Next Era of Computing
by Jason Dorrier: Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer was crowned fastest on the planet in the semiannual Top500 list… […]
Ireland’s ‘Hydrogen Valley’ Adds to European Clean Energy Achievements
by Jemma King: Another week, another step forward for European renewables dominance. […]
Tesla Rival Says it Will Build $30K Electric SUV in Ohio
by Veronika Bondarenko: Now that a star-crossed deal has closed, new plans are being rolled out to compete with the sector’s king… […]
Lunar Soil Has The Potential To Generate Oxygen And Fuel
Soil on the moon contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, scientists in China report May 5 in the journal Joule… […]
Tesla’s Recycled Batteries: Almost 92% Reuse Of Raw Materials
by Johnna Crider: Tesla’s recycled batteries have provided almost 92% of their original raw materials back to Tesla for future use, according to new information in Tesla’s 2021 Impact Report… […]
These Upcoming Cancer Vaccines May Prevent Tumors Before They Appear
by B. David Zarley: A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials. […]
Al Gore Says Climate’s Best Hope Lies In Cities And Solar Power
by Annie Sneed: In an exclusive interview Al Gore also maintains that the Trump administration is relinquishing U.S. climate leadership to China and India… […]
Climate Change: Al Gore Gets Inconvenient Again
by Michael Mann: Michael Mann views the US statesman’s second film probing climate change… […]
Al Gore At Cannes: ‘Trump Cannot Stop The Solutions To The Climate Crisis’
by Gwilym Mumford: The former US vice-president and environmental activist said there was hope in the fight against climate change – but the world and the US had to act… […]
The New Optimism Of Al Gore
by Josh Schwartz: Al Gore wants to make a point about cellphones, and he has a helpful set of slides on his laptop… […]
Rivian Wins $1.5 Billion Incentive Package For Georgia Plant
Electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. will receive $1.5 billion in state and local incentives to build a massive plant near Atlanta, bolstering the company’s production efforts despite local resistance to the project… […]
Bye, Be, Biopsy? Handheld Device Could Painlessly Identify Skin Cancers
Skin biopsies are no fun: doctors carve away small lumps of tissue for laboratory testing, […]
VanMoof’s New Ebikes Are Part Of A Masterplan To Become The Tesla Of Two-Wheelers
by Collum Booth: The S5 and A5 are the company’s newest electric bikes… […]
Mercedes Opens Battery Plant for Alabama-Made Electric SUVs
Mercedes-Benz Group AG opened a battery factory in Alabama months before the luxury-car maker starts assembling electric SUVs […]
Colorado Encourages Residents To Drive Electric
by Elizabeth Elkins: Drive Electric Colorado is a new initiative designed to educate residents about the positive reasons to make the switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV)… […]
Electric Vehicles, Not Luxury Cars, Dominate the New York Auto Show
The auto show, expected after two years of lockdowns to drive off into an irrelevant sunset, isn’t dead yet… […]
Nissan and NASA Are Teaming Up to Make a Metal-Free Solid-State Battery
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: The slow but steady transition to renewable energy was already underway when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, […]
Scientists Used Cellular Rejuvenation Therapy to Rewind Aging in Mice
by Shelly Fan: At roughly 70 years human age, the mice looked elderly and unremarkable… […]
Aquas, A Flying Ship That Moves Passengers And Cargo At Speed Up To 200 km/h
by Ashwini Sakharkar: RDC Aqualines announced its future plan to move the design and manufacture of its Aquas ekranoplan to the Basque Country, Spain… […]
The Tesla Model 2 Is Coming – Here’s What to Expect
by Josh Ko: With the Tesla Model 2, electric car ownership looks set to become more affordable. But what else can be expected from this upcoming electric vehicle? […]
The UK May Build a £16 Billion Solar Power Station in Space.
by Jovana Radulovic: The UK government is reportedly considering a £16 billion proposal to build a solar power station in space… […]
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Achieves Near Perfect Focus
by William Harwood: After weeks of microscopic adjustments, NASA unveiled the first fully focused image from the James Webb Space Telescope Wednesday, […]
Why Should You Care About Abundance?
by Peter Diamandis: These are turbulent times… […]
NASA’s Rollout Of Mega Moon Rocket Inches Closer
Yesterday, engineers and technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida drove Crawler Transporter-2, which will carry NASA’s Moon rocket to the launch pad, […]
Tesla’s 4680 Battery Ramp May Experience A “Death Valley” Start
by Simon Alvarez: To state that Tesla’s future lies in the success or failure of the 4680 battery is not an understatement… […]
Ford To Separate EV And Legacy Auto Business Units
by John Engel: In yet another sign of the changing auto industry, and the growing penetration of electric vehicles, Ford said it will split its EV and internal combustion divisions into two distinct units within [...]
Drug Cocktail Regrows Frog Legs In Regenerative Medicine Breakthrough
by Michael Irving: After losing a limb, animals like axolotls have the amazing ability to regrow a fully functional replacement, while most other creatures can only look on in envy… […]
Airbus Will Test Hydrogen Combustion Technology On The A380 Jet
by Amit Malewar: Airbus has partnered with CFM International, a joint company of GE and Safran Aircraft Engines, to collaborate on a hydrogen demonstration program that will take flight around the middle of this decade… [...]
Volvo Will Test Wireless EV Charging In Sweden For 3 Years
by Andrew Krok: The chargers will be able to provide 40 kilowatts, which is almost as much as some wired DC fast chargers… […]
Virgin Hyperloop Switches Focus From Passengers To Cargo As It Lays Off Half Its Staff
by James Vincent: Moving freight has less of a regulatory and safety burden… […]
“Drug Factory” Beads Implanted In Mice Takeout Tumors Within A Week
by Nick Lavars: Among the many challenges in treating tumors is the difficulty in getting anti-cancer drugs to the right locations, and in the right amounts… […]
Biden Takes Step To Cut Into China’s Electric Battery Dominance
by Kathleen Ronayne: The pandemic has highlighted supply chain issues, including the United States’ reliance on Chinese mines for materials to power cars and other goods… […]
What God, Quantum Mechanics And Consciousness Have In Common
by John Horgan: Theories that try to explain these big metaphysical mysteries fall short, making agnosticism the only sensible stance… […]
5 Discoveries The Webb Telescope Will Make – Peter Diamandis
by Peter Diamandis: Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, has over 100 thousand million stars. And based on data from NASA’s New Horizons space probe, we now estimate that our Universe contains roughly 200 billion galaxies… […]
Drones As Big As 747s Will Fly Cargo Around The World With Low Emissions
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: The global supply chain is currently experiencing all kinds of glitches, from material shortages to labor shortages and beyond… […]
Solar Panel Canal Project Advances In California
by John Engel: A canopy of solar panels over an irrigation canal, working to generate clean energy and conserve water supply, […]
The Falcon 9 May Now Be The Safest Rocket Ever Launched
by Eric Berger: The Falcon 9 also recently surpassed the space shuttle in total flights… […]
The Cost of Linear Thinking – Peter Diamandis
by Peter Diamandis: What’s the cost of linear thinking in an exponential world? […]
Battery-Powered Trains Are Picking Up Speed
by Khari Johnson: Electric locomotives could cut emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic pollutants… […]
Australia-Asia PowerLink Will Be The Largest Solar Project
With global emissions targets set for the coming decades throughout much of the world, […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Turns On Cameras to look at First Star Target
Spacecraft controllers started powering up the four cutting-edge instruments on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope […]
GM Makes Largest-Ever Investment, Spending $7 Billion on EV Manufacturing Capacity
General Motors is spending $7 billion to erect a new battery plant and overhaul an existing assembly plant to produce electric trucks… […]