Caterpillar Makes One Gigantic Electric Truck To Rule Them All
The new 793 electric truck from Caterpillar is just the tip of the iceberg as the global mining industry pivots into electrification and interoperability.
Search Results for: battery swap
Tesla’s New Referral Program: Earn Points to Get Tesla Merch
Today, Tesla updated its referral program once again. Instead of the previous cash bonus for buyers and referrers of Tesla solar panels and Solar Roof, now both the Tesla customer who makes the referral and the new customer who signs up for a Tesla solar power system get credits of … [continued]
Harley-Davidson LiveWire Conquers Nullarbor
What do you do to scratch that itch for challenge and adventure? After his epic journey from Sydney, New South Wales, to Cape Tribulation in Northern Queensland, Ed Darmanin decided to ride his Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle across the Nullarbor Plain from Perth to Sydney. Here are some highlights of the … [continued]
New Measurements Quantifying Qudits Provide Glimpse Of Quantum Future
Using existing experimental and computational resources, a multi-institutional team has developed an effective method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs, which are a type of photon source, on a single optical chip. Although the word “qudit” might look like a typo, this lesser-known cousin of the qubit, … [continued]
UK BEV Volume Up YoY Despite Tesla Mid-Quarter Restocking
The UK auto market saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.5% share in October, with growing year on year volumes. Despite volume gain, YoY plugin share saw a slight dip (from 23.1%), against greater YoY gains in overall auto volume, up 26% to 134,344 units (from a record low baseline). October … [continued]
New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
Eviation Sells More Alice Electric Aircraft For Underserved Routes
Aviation contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. In the United States, commercial flights produce about 805 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, which is about 2% of all US emissions and 3.5% of global aviation emissions. The environmental fallout of air travel is a pressing issue because there … [continued]
Bandit9 Is The Perfect Vespa For A Terminator 2 Reboot
When the powers-that-be in Hollywood finally get around to rebooting the Terminator franchise (again), the all-electric Bandit9 Nano is the moped that tweenage John Connor will try to escape the liquid metal T1000 on. The Vietnamese Bandit9 brand is pushing an art deco, Metropolis-y aesthetic with its 904L polished steel … [continued]
BMW Group Opening 8 New EV Parts Lines in Leipzig
EV battery production gets a lot of attention, and largely because it’s the biggest challenge right now. As more and more EVs get sold, we’re going to have to come up with enough raw materials, refining capacity, and cell production lines–and that’s all before a manufacturer puts the cells in … [continued]
Volvo Trucks Levels Up Its Electric Trucks Sales Process With End-To-End Fleet Electrification Consulting
Volvo Trucks North America spent a week bringing customers, partners, and media out to its customer center in Dublin, Virginia as part of its 2022 Electromobility Summit to showcase the work it has done to lead the electrification of the heavy trucking space. The flagship of Volvo Trucks’ efforts in … [continued]
