If you’ve followed the topic of electric aircraft, you know that the smaller unmanned variety is currently dominating the segment. Small aircraft need less energy, and that has made powering them with electricity instead of fossil fuels possible. Plus, they displace fossil fuel-powered manned aircraft in many cases, so they’re … [continued]
Luxury EV manufacturer Faraday Future recently announced that it is going to open its first retail location on posh Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California. The company is going to be working with the ASTOUND group to design and build the store. “Designing FF’s flagship brand experience center, working with … [continued]
onsemi, a Phoenix-based maker of high efficiency traction power modules, recently announced that it has inked a deal to sell its batteries to NIO, a Chinese EV manufacturer with plans to expand globally (including the United States). “From all the solutions we considered, the VE-Trac Direct SiC traction power modules … [continued]
Michigan State University is very proud of its Solar Racing Team, and they want everyone to know about the team’s accomplishments this year. In a time when automakers are all going electric, college racing teams are still trying to push the limits of technology (which may end up in future … [continued]
CarMax recently released a report on its EV customer interest and sales, and one thing is pretty clear: EV sales are going up, and today’s nasty gas prices are definitely driving it. Here’s the heavy-hitting part of the report: “From February 2022 to March 2022, CarMax.com received 1.5 times the … [continued]
Students at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school’s vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste. The little car even has a name: Gemma, but we’ll get to why that … [continued]
I recently came across a company called FreeWire on social media, and it looks like they have a pretty good solution to something that keeps rural charging stations from happening in the United States. Before I get to how the company is doing this, let’s take a look at the … [continued]
In a previous article, we covered the Stella Vita experimental camper van. Unlike nearly every other camper on the face of the planet (this is the other exception I know of), the Stella Vita runs on sunlight. It doesn’t need to charge from the electrical grid, which still uses fossil … [continued]
While coming up with cleaner sources for raw materials is great, the environmental impact of that often can’t come close to just reusing materials we already took from nature. For example, Ford’s looking for better ways to produce aluminum, but it notes that simply recycling the stuff takes only 5% … [continued]
I really like camping, hiking, and occasionally taking an e-bike out for a nice ride in the mountains. It would take a truly dull mind to not start wondering, even a little, what caused the terrain to form like it did. Since college, I’ve known just enough about geology to … [continued]
