The Marriage Between Sony & Honda Is Now Official
Sony and Honda have agreed to form a new company to build connected battery-electric cars together starting in 2025.
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Honda & Sony Will Build Electric Cars Together
Apple may never get around to selling electric cars — that project has been on again/off again for years. Honda is another company that has been dancing around the electric car question. First it embraced hydrogen fuel cells with the Clarity sedan, then converted that car into a plug-in hybrid … [continued]
Is Sony Really Going To Produce Electric Cars?
Two years ago, Sony unveiled the Vision-S electric concept car, and I excitedly wrote up the news. Here are some pics of the Vision-S concept at the time: A year later, we found out that Sony wasn’t entirely fooling around, and it had created a test mule out of the … [continued]
Porsche Vision Gran Turismo: More Than A Concept?
Porsche builds a next-gen, all-electric hypercar for the track — the virtual track!
Just One Year Later, Sony Vision-S Electric Car Hits The Road
They said it was just a concept. No plans for production. Nothing to see here, in other words. And that’s fine — but here we are, just one year after Sony shocked the automotive community with the launch of its Vision-S electric car at CES 2020, and there is a … [continued]
Digital Cockpits Becoming Industry Norm As Copycat Tesla Interiors Proliferate
When the Tesla Model S hit the streets in 2012, the feature that seemed to draw the most attention from the press and the public was its enormous touchscreen.
Sony Consumer EV, Panasonic Getting Maxwell Tech, 2 Non-Tesla European Gigafactories — CleanTech News Show…
This is the 19th broadcast of CleanTechnica’s weekly news show. We now also have a Patreon page! This week’s show covers Panasonic claims regarding future batteries, whether Sony’s concept EV might reach the market after all, two non-Tesla Gigafactory wannabees, a green skyscraper (half of which is made out of wood), the ITER fusion reactor entering the assembly phase — and much more!
Responsible Battery Coalition Applauds University of Michigan Research on Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation Calls Research “Important…
The Responsible Battery Coalition (RBC) — a leading coalition of companies, academics and organizations dedicated to the responsible management and environmental sustainability of batteries — applauded research published today by the University of Michigan (U-M) in the Journal of Energy Storage on best practices for consumers for extending the life of lithium-ion batteries, as well as the cost savings associated with minimizing degradation.
Sony Shocks — Announces Electric Car
There have been rumors or expectations for years about Apple electric cars, Google electric cars, and Samsung electric cars outside of the Samsung–Renault partnership in South Korea. Though, I don’t recall any rumors about a Sony electric car. I guess Sony is good at keeping a secret, because it just unveiled an electric car concept at CES 2020 that has shocked the world.
World’s Greenest Companies Are Consistently Outperforming Their Non-Green Peers
The world’s greenest and most sustainable companies have been highlighted in two parallel reports published this week by CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform, and Canadian media and research company Corporate Knights, with the common thread in both lists being the consistent economic performance of companies committed to fighting climate change and addressing environmental issues.
