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EDITOR'S PICK
20 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"the populace must have been stunned when Andreas Flocken first pulled the divinely-monikered Elektrowagen into the streets of Coburg in late 1888...the horseless carriage must have looked like it was pulled along by magic..."...Flocken ran out of power over 15 miles from home near the village of Redwitz...Elektrowagen weighed 900 pounds and achieved a blistering maximum speed of 9 mph.
20 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"...nine oil companies, including Exxon, Chevron, and Shell, may face a lawsuit in Puerto Rico based on an accusation that they suppressed clean energy initiatives and misled the public about the dangers of the changing climate"Major victory for climate accountability. Such accountability is vital for everyone to understand how abusing the planet's resources is having devastating consequences."
20 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"Spatial disorientation has been a deadly hazard since the dawn of aviation, and powered-lift aircraft pilots may be particularly vulnerable to it...ground-based simulators have a significant limitation: they cannot replicate real acceleration forces...rapid and substantial changes in acceleration can quickly trigger visual illusions and spatial disorientation...all powered-lift or eVTOL designs incorporate tilting rotors or wings to transition between flight modes, causing the thrust vector to change not only in magnitude but also in direction."20 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"Sized and priced to put the best-selling Tesla Model Y firmly in its crosshairs...starting at 'just' 176,800 yuan ($27,620USD)...G6 buyers will get the Xpeng-developed Turing AI intelligent driving system...33x the bandwidth, and 12x faster camera image processing than its main competitors.."Xpeng AI batteries 'bulletproof,' the company claims the battery is wrapped in a sort of armor that can withstand more than 1,000 degrees C of heat, up to 80 tons of collision force..."
19 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"Looking rather nice and packed with gadgetry, Chinese electric cars are clearly going to outsell Western brands on price...huge issue hanging over electric cars from China: are they four-wheeled Trojan horses packed with electronics to spy on myriad aspects of life in the West?...an electric car is always internet-connected, and acts like a giant, data-gobbling mobile phone."The sort of regulation in China that expands the power of the Party is not helpful to tech companies trying to become multinationals and convince the rest of the world that they're just profit-driven normal companies."
18 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"GSA directive implementing [White House] executive order said the 'policy allows GSA to support customer agency mission-critical vehicle charging using existing equipment at federally owned facilities under GSA's jurisdiction, custody, and control and to discontinue the use of non-mission critical EVSE [chargers]...result in many EVs being sold off at bargain prices, costing the government up to $1 billion..full federal picture is still somewhat chaotic."18 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"...critics point out that Trump's tariffs have prompted retaliatory tariffs from targeted countries...In 2018...Tim Cook had a very pointed outlook on [D.I.C.'s] tariff policy...popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor costs...China stopped being a low-labor-cost country many years ago"The reason (for moving jobs to China) is because of the skill. The quantity of skill in one location and the type of skill Chinese workers possess."
18 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
Saudi Arabia...is making significant strides in the electric vehicle ...market by investing heavily in building a comprehensive industry chain...The country has invested in U.S. EV startup Lucid Motors and launched its local brand, Ceer...The Saudi government plans to electrify 30% of Riyadh's vehicles by 2030...Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, is the largest shareholder of Lucid Motors"Saudi Arabia is transitioning from a traditional oil-based economy to a diversified one focused on renewable energy."
17 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"The partnership builds on an existing agreement between Joby and Delta Air Lines, which owns a 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic...electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft designed to carry a pilot and up to four passengers at speeds reaching 200 mph...vertical take-off and landing with significantly less noise than conventional helicopters..optimised for rapid, back-to-back flights and could operate on routes up to 100 miles."17 Mar 2025 | Synopsis
"Two autonomous electric minibuses are operating on a 2.2-kilometer (1.36-mile) open road loop in the heart of Barcelona's streets...With 1,000 km covered and nearly 700 people transported, this first full-scale test [in Valence, France] demonstrated the maturity of the technology"...the electric bus can run for 120 kilometers (74 miles) without a recharge and reach 40 kilometers per hour (25 mph). It is equipped with 10 cameras and eight lidars..."
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