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In Germany, the FastCharge research consortium ( earlier post ) has presented a prototype for a charging station with an output of up to 450 kW in Jettingen-Scheppach, located near Continue Reading
Autonomous vehicle trial runs are growing in real numbers in California, and so are the crashes coming from the self-driving cars. The California Department of Motor Vehicles has increased the Continue Reading
China’s output of new energy vehicles rose to 173,000 units in November, up 18.5% year on year, according to the latest monthly report from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers Continue Reading
Daimler will buy more than €20 billion (US$23 billion) of battery cells for electric drive vehicles by 2030, the company announced . The suppliers are already producing battery cells in Continue Reading
Amprius, Inc., a manufacturer and developer of high energy and high capacity lithium-ion batteries, announced that the company is supplying advanced lithium-ion cells to the Airbus Defence and Space Zephyr Continue Reading
South Korea-based SK Innovation, a developer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, will invest $1.67 billion to build a new electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant in Georgia. SK innovation Continue Reading
A sign is pictured next to an electric car charging station in a Paris street, France, September 12, 2017. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday the United Continue Reading
“China is the only one in the race; it’s all Chinese manufacturers,” said Sandra Retzer, the Beijing-based head of sustainable mobility at the German Agency for International Cooperation, which is Continue Reading
Volkswagen plans to build a factory for affordable electric vehicles in the United States, the company’s new head of North American operations, Scott Keogh told media at an industry event, Continue Reading
Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco ( TSCO.L ) and German car maker Volkswagen ( VOWG_p.DE ) have teamed up to develop an electric vehicle charging network in the UK, they said Continue Reading
Flying cars were thought to be coming as soon as four years from now , but actually commercial models are coming up sooner than what had been thought. Air taxi Continue Reading
A continued weaker oil price could hinder progress of the electric vehicle revolution, as the costs of investment become unattractive, a panel discussion said Wednesday. Speaking at the annual Mines Continue Reading
Oil supermajor Shell sees electric vehicle (EV) enthusiasts buying into the ‘cool factor’ of zero emission vehicles, driving EVs fleet growth regardless of the oil price fluctuations, the head of Continue Reading
Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Promoting renewable Continue Reading
You may not have heard, but electric vehicles are just another one-percenter boondoggle, Jay Gatsby’s cream-colored Rolls Royce reincarnated and partly paid for by you, the toiling masses, via various Continue Reading
MIT researchers have demonstrated that an aircraft with a 5-meter wingspan can sustain steady-level flight using ionic-wind propulsion. The aircraft has no moving parts, does not depend on fossil fuels Continue Reading
Drax, operator of the UK’s largest power station, is partnering with the Smart Green Shipping Alliance ( SSGA ), leading dry bulk cargo transporter Ultrabulk, and Humphreys Yacht Design to Continue Reading
New York State announced a series of broad-scale initiatives to encourage the purchase and to increase the convenience and accessibility of electric vehicles (EV). EVolve NY to Install Charging Stations Continue Reading
The International Energy Agency published its World Energy Outlook this week, its annual effort at revising assessments of future demand for and supply of fuels and electricity. 1 There’s a Continue Reading
When China first announced its plans to slap EV production quotas on local carmakers back in 2017, the news got a lot of coverage. The media placed emphasis on the Continue Reading
The AP Moeller Maersk Group will focus on low sulfur marine fuels under the new regime from 2020, though it will also install scrubbers in some of its ships just Continue Reading
Volkswagen expects to become the most profitable manufacturer of electric cars thanks to a multi-billion euro expansion plan to mass produce battery drive battery-driven Executive Herbert Diess said on Friday. Continue Reading
There is little space for argument that the biggest problem with mass EV adoption is the high cost and insufficient reliability of lithium-ion batteries. While it’s true that costs have Continue Reading
Sales of used hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles (EVs) in the UK jumped by 28.6 percent annually in the third quarter of 2018, the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Continue Reading
Cobalt’s essential role in lithium-ion batteries has and will continue to make it increasingly important for the global consumer economy. Cobalt serves as a key component in battery-based devices by Continue Reading
Ford, the company that pioneered the motor car and announced earlier this year that it would focus its US business on trucks and sports utility vehicles, has decided to embrace Continue Reading
Two of the world’s biggest carmakers, Ford Motor Company and Germany’s Volkswagen AG, are in discussion to set up a joint venture to develop self-driving cars, and could announce a Continue Reading
To study the potential benefits of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a simulation framework that analyzes the impact of partial market penetration of Continue Reading
Nearly half of the world’s electric vehicles are in 25 cities, according to a new briefing by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). As of the end of 2017, Continue Reading
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has so far resisted pressure to soften or postpone the implementation of new regulations requiring ships to use bunker fuels with a lower sulfur content Continue Reading
Kia Motors and Hyundai Motor plan to introduce solar roof charging technology on selected Hyundai Motor Group vehicles. Electricity-generating solar panels will be incorporated into the roof or the hood Continue Reading
Alphabet’s Waymo has been granted California’s first permit to test fully driverless vehicles on public roads as it races towards commercialising autonomous technology. The permit from the state’s Department of Continue Reading
In an effort to address growing traffic congestion and air quality concerns, UPS and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the deployment of an innovative downtown delivery pilot project using pedal-assist Continue Reading
Volvo Cars has acquired a stake in mobile EV rapid charging company FreeWire Technologies ( earlier post ) via the Volvo Cars Tech Fund. BP’s venturing business invested $5 million Continue Reading
Private hire taxi business Adison Lee and British self-driving software specialist Oxbotica said on Monday that they struck a strategic alliance aiming to deploy and operate self-driving services in London Continue Reading
The BMW Group, Northvolt and Umicore have formed a joint technology consortium in order to work closely together on the continued development of a complete and sustainable value chain for Continue Reading
As the global population increases, so does the number of cars in our city streets and roads. Engineers, policy makers, scientists, and urban planners around the globe have been brainstorming Continue Reading
Audi unveiled last month its first fully electric SUV, the e-tron, at an event on Tesla’s home turf in San Francisco—the electric vehicle industry’s latest step toward mass adoption of Continue Reading
Researchers at North Carolina State University have built an electric vehicle fast charger that is at least 10 times smaller than existing systems and wastes 60% less power during the Continue Reading
Fully self-driving cars may be on the fast lane to U.S. roads under a pilot program the Trump administration said on Tuesday it was considering, which would allow real-world road Continue Reading
Tesla’s competition is about to get more crowded next year with many legacy automakers and luxury brands launching a record number of battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. All EV Continue Reading
Boeing- and JetBlue-backed Zunum Aero has selected Safran Helicopter Engines as the turbine provider for its hybrid electric commercial aircraft, which will be available in the early 2020s. ( Earlier Continue Reading
In the race to develop self-driving cars, winning does not necessarily mean coming first. General Motors has bolstered its claim to be the leading carmaker developing self-driving systems after Honda Continue Reading
After 12 years developing hydrogen propulsion systems for small unmanned aircraft ( earlier post ), HES Energy Systems is unveiled its plans for Element One, the first regional hydrogen-electric passenger Continue Reading
Automakers are launching a race to build electric cars that can charge as fast filling a gas tank. When the first electric cars launched in 2011, buyers and fans were Continue Reading
Tesla will release its biggest software update in two years by the end of the week, chief executive Elon Musk, true to himself, said in a tweet in response to Continue Reading
The volume of traffic on U.S. highways has stopped growing, and with it gasoline consumption, as rising prices curb driving behavior. Traffic volumes in July were 0.3 percent lower than Continue Reading
The entry into effect of tighter emission rules for bunkering fuel will cause a temporary spike in crude oil demand as refineries increase their daily runs by around 400,000 bpd, Continue Reading
The taste for tiny EVs has become a quirky subplot in China’s push to become a world leader in electric cars. Roughly 1.75 million micro-EVs were sold in China last Continue Reading
Continental and Knorr-Bremse AG have entered into a partnership to develop a complete system solution for highly automated driving (HAD) in commercial vehicles, initially focused on automated convoy driving (platooning). Continue Reading