In a move that’s presumably intended to pave the way for commercialization, Google’s (Alphabet’s) self-driving car project has brought a top Airbnb executive onboard, according to recent reports. The new hire, Shaun Stewart, formerly led his earlier employer’s vacation rental team, and was formerly CEO at the travel firm Jetsetter … [continued]
One of the largest electric vehicle charging network companies in the world, ChargePoint, has hit a major new milestone, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica — the firm’s charging station network now includes more than 30,000 stations. As noted in the recent email, that means that there are now … [continued]
Following the opening of an investigation into Volkswagen’s use of a defeat device to fool emissions tests for the firm’s vehicles, the government of South Korea has decided to expand that investigation to include essentially all foreign car brands, according to recent reports. The South Korean government previously decided to … [continued]
While the US’s rail network — high-speed or otherwise — has been in something of a stagnant period as of late, there is some forward movement occurring. In particular, Amtrak recently provided details on the upgraded Acela Express service that’s expected to begin service in 2021. The upgraded service will feature a brand new … [continued]
GM’s Orion Assembly manufacturing plant, where the Chevy Bolt is being put together, now ranks as the 8th largest user of “green power” generated onsite in the US — out of the Environmental Protection Agency’s network of “Green Power Partnership Partners.” The Orion Assembly plant is currently home to a 350 … [continued]
One of the potential benefits of self-driving car technology, and certainly one of the benefits of mass transit options such as rail travel, is that auto collisions and fatalities can be reduced. How much they can be reduced is something of an open question, but considering how distracted, inebriated, and … [continued]
A new analysis of the electric vehicle market from the Union of Concerned Scientists has found that a major barrier to wider, faster adoption of the technology is simply that auto manufacturers aren’t bringing enough models to market. Also, the electric vehicle (EV) models that are available aren’t widely available … [continued]
In order to better explain to children and laypeople the complex mechanisms related to global warming and the Antarctic Ice Sheet, researchers have partnered with game developers to create a new game that illustrates the way that the Antarctic Ice Sheet will be affected by anthropogenic climate change, according to an … [continued]
With how often the topic of electric vehicles potentially running out of battery charge gets brought up in conversations about the limits of the technology, and so-called “range anxiety,” one would guess that electric vehicle owners must be getting stranded quite a bit. Is that actually the case, though? Going … [continued]
The world’s first all-electric line of sanitation trucks was recently launched in Beijing by BYD Company and the Beijing Environmental Sanitation Engineering Group, according to an email sent to CleanTechnica. The line of all-electric sanitation trucks was unveiled at the Beijing Convention Center. The launch event revealed that the partnership had … [continued]
