Brazil's Embraer plans to build electric flying taxi factory near Sao Paulo
Embraer says it will build electric aircraft with hopes they will take flight from 2026. Source link
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Russia’s Luna-25 Mission Launches to the Moon
For the first time in nearly half a century, Russia has launched a spacecraft that is headed to the moon. On Friday morning at a spaceport in the far eastern part of Russia, a rocket lifted Luna-25, a robotic lander of moderate size, to Earth orbit. It will try to land in the moon’s south…
Mercedes-Benz Crashed The EQS SUV And EQA Head-On, Here’s What Happened
Two 49-kilogram female dummies, around 1.5-meters tall, wearing red t-shirts and white shoes escaped relatively unscathed after the electric vehicles they were driving collided head-on. Mercedes-Benz claims it was the world’s first crash test involving two pure EVs. The automaker wanted to go “above and beyond” the legal requirements to discover what happens when two…
ChargePoint introduces new 500kW ultra-fast DC charger
EV charging provider ChargePoint announced the first large scale deployment of its new Express Plus Power Link 2000 DC fast charging platform. The Power Link system, capable of delivering charging speeds up to 500kW, debuted on Wednesday as the charging hardware and software driving the fastest public charging network in North America: Mercedes-Benz HPC NA….
High Fall Temperatures to Drop, With Cold and Frost Forecast in Eastern U.S.
Oct. 1 should have been a cool and crisp Sunday in the Twin Cities, the kind in which a temperature reading around the daily average high of 56.7 degrees would have been perfect for finding the right pumpkin to carve or getting lost in a corn maze. Instead, the region sweltered in summerlike temperatures that…
Grid battery storage projects get INR 3,760 crore support, Auto News, ET Auto
“Today a big decision has been taken in that direction to facilitate viability gap funding (VGF) for setting up battery energy storage system. For this INR 3,760 crore will be spent. ” said Anurag Thakur, Union Minister New Delhi: The government on Wednesday approved INR 3,760 crore Central support for 4,000 MWh (megawatt-hour) battery storage…
US BEV Registrations Up 53% In August 2023 To Almost 100,000
In August, new all-electric car registrations in the United States continued to grow at a healthy rate but slightly missed the 100,000 mark, which was exceeded in July for the first time. According to the registration data from Experian (via Automotive News), the total number of BEV registrations, during the first eight months of 2023,…
Tesla plans to make $27,000 EV in Germany
Tesla plans to build a $25,000-euro (just under $27,000 at current exchange rates) EV at its factor near Berlin, according to a Reuters report published Monday. The report, cites an anonymous source with knowledge of the matter, but the source did not say when production would begin. CEO Elon Musk announced plans for the lower-priced…
First all-electric Munro Series-M 4×4 leaves production line
Munro Vehicles, a manufacturer of all-electric 4x4s, and Scotland’s only volume car company, has today announced the completion of its first pre-production model. The white Series-M Utility, a hard top five-seater 4×4, leaves the factory in East Kilbride just ten months after Munro unveiled the MK_1 prototype model in Edinburgh in December 2022. The start…
Accelerating digital transformation through simulation, ET Auto
SAE India’s International Automotive CAE Conference 2023, themed ‘Road to Virtual World’was moderated by ETAuto’s Consulting Editor Sumantra Bibhuti Barooah. New Delhi: As the scale and the scope of work are increasing and the speed at which change is happening, the requirement of product development is going to be enormous for the engineers. It becomes…