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… […]
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… […]
Mercedes-Benz Foresees EV-Only Production Lines Within A Few Years
by Victoria Waldersee and Ilona Wissenbach: Mercedes-Benz expects to have factories producing exclusively electric vehicles (EVs) by the second half of the decade […]
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 […]
Hold On, Why Does Norway Get the World’s Fastest EV Charger!?
The Terra 360 can fully charge EVs in less than 15 minutes. […]
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… […]
Generating Electricity From Heat With No Moving Parts
by Charles Q. Choi: Just as solar cells generate electricity from sunlight, thermophotovoltaic cells do so from infrared light… […]
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, […]
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? […]
Transition To Zero-Emission Vehicles Would Deliver $1.2 trillion In Public Health Benefits
by Andrea Germanos: “The time to act on zero-emissions is now…” […]
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 [...]
Here’s the ‘Disappointing’ and ‘Prohibited’ Way Some American Airlines Flight Attendants Make Extra Money
by Bill Murphy: Be careful that you don’t create a marketplace by mistake… […]
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… [...]
8 Places With Awesome and Innovative Public Transportation
by Linnea Harris: In cities across the globe, urbanites rely on public transportation to get around… […]
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… […]
Battery-Powered Trains Are Picking Up Speed
by Khari Johnson: Electric locomotives could cut emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic pollutants… […]
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… […]
How Much Cheaper Is It To Own An Electric Car?
by Matt Pressman: It might be high-time to save some cash. Buying an electric car, instead of another gas-guzzler, might be a powerful (and easy) way to achieve that noble goal… […]
What’s The Deal With 5G And Plane Safety? Here’s What You Need to Know
by Sufian Yousef: Several international airlines recently cancelled flights into certain US airports over concerns the rollout of 5G mobile communication technology could interfere with some planes’ equipment… […]
Solar-Powered EVs More Possible Than Ever, Thanks To TMDs & Graphene
by Tina Casey: The race is on to build the solar-powered Evs of the future, and it looks like graphene and TMDs could get the ball rolling… […]
Why Electric Cars Will Take Over Sooner Than You Think
by Justin Rowlatt: I know, you probably haven’t even driven one yet, let alone seriously contemplated buying one, so the prediction may sound a bit bold, but bear with me… […]
Battery Storage: The Answer To Renewable Energy Intermittency
Renewable energy technologies play a major role in mitigating pressing societal challenges such as climate change and resource depletion… […]
Glasgow Disappointed, But It Inched The World Forward On Climate
by Fred Pearce: The UN climate agreement reached in Glasgow fell far short of what scientists say is needed, angering activists and many delegates. […]
EV Sales Rising Ahead Of Schedule In EU & UK, Predicted To Overtake Gasoline Vehicles By 2025
by Scooter Doll: Efforts by automakers and legislators overseas appear to be paying off, as a new study found that consumers’ transition to all-electric vehicles in the EU and UK is “inevitable…” […]
Germany’s Plugin EV Share At Record 36% In December
by Dr. Maximilian Holland: Germany, Europe’s largest auto market and the world’s 5th largest, saw plugin electric vehicle share hit a record of 35.7% in December, up from 26.6% year-on-year… […]
A Self-Driving Truck Got A Shipment Cross-Country 10 Hours Faster Than A Human Driver
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Self-driving cars are taking longer to come to market than many expected… […]
Mercedes Says Its Electric Concept Has 620 Miles Of Range And Seats Made With Mushrooms
by Peter Valdes-Dapena: Mercedes has unveiled a new all-electric concept car, the EQXX, that the company claims can go 620 miles on a single charge… […]
H2 Clipper Will Resurrect Hydrogen Airships To Haul Green Fuel Across The Planet
by Edd Gent: Airships might seem like a technology from a bygone era, but a startup says their new design could become a crucial cog in the green hydrogen supply chain… […]
New Wind Turbine Harvests The Energy From Passing Traffic
by Amir Malewar: When we talk about what kind of wasted energy could be utilized while driving, everyone first thinks of braking energy… […]
Solar Powered Cars Are Coming To Market
by Connor Long: Psychologist Paul Bloom on the importance of suffering, the shortcomings of hedonism, and why he would never plug into the Matrix… […]
EV Credit, Methane Fees: What $555 Billion Climate Plan Would Do
The spending bill House Democrats passed Friday and sent to the Senate calls for the largest-ever investment in fighting climate change: $555 billion on clean power, electric vehicles and resilience to global warming… […]
Automakers Are Electrifying The Family-Friendly SUV
by Marc Carter: It isn’t just small niche automakers that have released new electric vehicles at the 2021 LA Auto Show… […]
Mind-Blowing Tech Could Let Humans Travel From New York To Los Angeles In 1 second
by Joshua Hawkins: What if we could travel at the speed of light? […]
Rolls-Royce Says Its Electric Plane Just Smashed The World Record For Speed
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: The first electric plane took flight in 1973… […]
Behind The Wheel, Under The Hood Of World’s First 500-Mile EV
by Lawrence Ulrich: Whether Lucid Motors will succeed in the brutally competitive auto business remains an open question… […]
In Win For EV Supply Chain, U.S.’s First Anode Plant Opens In Tennessee
by John Engel: The U.S.’s first anode manufacturing facility opened in Chattanooga, Tennessee on Monday, a monumental step to enhance the domestic battery supply chain, as it faces increasing demand from electric vehicle makers… [...]
Texas Lands $1 Billion Investment In Solar And Battery Projects
Petroleum products firm Chem-Energy will invest more than $1 billion in solar and battery plant facilities in Central Texas… […]
GE’s New Autonomous Electric Pods Have No Steering Wheel, Pedals, Or Cab
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: Self-driving cars are taking longer to become a reality than many experts predicted… […]
Tesla Made $1.6 billion In Q3, Is Switching To LFP Batteries Globally
The lithium iron phosphate cells are less energy-dense but much longer-lived… […]
Wright Proposes A 100-seat Electric Airliner Powered By Aluminum
by (Fuenti Tech): US-based Light Electric has announced a 100-seat electric short-hop aircraft scheduled to enter service by 2026. It is powered by hydrogen or uses a recyclable metal that the company calls an “aluminum [...]