The MIT spinoff firm Optimus Ride, focused on the development of self-driving vehicle tech, recently closed an $18 million Series A funding round led by Greycroft Partners and accompanied by others including the director of MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito.
A planned community on the Boston’s South Shore will be a laboratory for sustainable cities worldwide, marrying internet of things technology with renewable energy to create a healthy environment for living and working.
A new study from the Boston Consulting Group predicts a somewhat slower uptake for all-electric vehicles than some earlier studies have — with the prediction being that all-electric vehicles (EVs) won’t gain “serious traction” in most global markets until after 2025, and that an only 14% of global new vehicle production will be EVs by 2030.
Charging infrastructure for urban areas is a problem. With open land at a premium in congested cities, finding room to install chargers can be a challenge. Tesla is aware of the issue and, as usual, is being proactive in its response. On September 11, Tesla posted on its blog that it has developed a new compact Tesla Supercharger specifically for use in cities.
A high-powered consortium that is proposing to build a battery storage gigafactory in Townsville in north Queensland says it is closer to choosing a site for the multi-billion dollar investment after meetings with the local council and state government officials.
Just one day after Trump kicks off his 2020 campaign in Florida to an adoring crowd, scientists flex their muscles in a rally against Trump in Boston.
A new report investigating the climate-related risk practices of 28 of the world’s largest banks has found that, while these risks have been assigned more priority, financial institutions are not adapting fast enough to a world with a fast-changing climate.
A selected entry from the Masdar blogging content for 2017: perhaps the most important action young people are ready to take is to choose public transit over private transportation
Riding public transportation is a vital means of saving money, money that can much more happily be spent on other things than on owning, driving, and maintaining a car. Transit riders can forget about auto insurance, car payments, fuel costs, tuneups at the mechanic, expensive broken car parts, etc.
NuTonomy, the company that grabbed quite a lot of headlines earlier this year when it launched a self-driving car pilot in Singapore, will begin testing of its self-driving tech in Boston before the end of 2016.
