The Vice President of Finance and Controlling at Mercedes-Benz Cars, Frank Lindenberg, was recently quoted at one of Daimler’s investor meetings as saying that electric vehicles may be only half as profitable as diesel or petrol/gas-powered cars at first.
The largest auto parts supplier in the world, Bosch, will see its annual sales of semi-autonomous “driver assistance” tech total €2 billion as soon as 2019, company execs have predicted.
The electric vehicle fast-charging station firm Fastned has been granted a total of €4.1 million by the German government, to be used for the development of 25 fast-charging stations in Germany, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica.
In a bid to reduce waste and associated greenhouse gas emissions, Jaguar Land Rover Automotive is now working to expand its use of recycled aluminum in car bodies — as part of a £2 million project dubbed “REALITY” — according to recent reports.
Honda’s decisions as regards the 2018 Clarity Electric remain a complete mystery (why release such an uncompetitive offering?), but the situation with the plug-in hybrid version of the 2018 Clarity is very different.
What does a large hurricane look like when seen from the near-earth orbit of the International Space Station?
Astronaut Randy Bresnik, who is currently stationed onboard the ISS, was nice enough to share some new images — which give a bird’s eye view of the enormous Hurricane Irma when it was near its peak.
As those tracking the situation will now be aware, Hurricane Irma has weakened substantially since its high point last week when it achieved sustained wind speeds of around 185 mph.
It’s no longer even a hurricane as of the time of writing this. This is the result of the hurricane scraping large land masses such as Cuba and its fated landfall on Sunday in Florida. Hurricanes thrive on warm water and its evaporative potential. In other words, they feed on cheap, easily accessed energy. When they travel overland, they rapidly lose power.
On the way back from Colombia, Pope Francis gave a press conference on a plane that included some interesting comments. Amongst them was the statement that humanity will “go down” if strong action to address climate change isn’t taken.
GM & Cruise Automation now have a design ready for a mass-production self-driving vehicle, the world’s first according to Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt.
Electric vehicle and renewable energy technologies aren’t enough on their own to give countries a means of achieving the goals of the Paris climate change accord, according to the CEO of DNV GL’s energy consulting business, Ditlev Engel.
