A PepsiCo Tesla Semi covered over 1,000 miles on a single work day, as recorded by the monitoring equipment installed as part of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) Run On Less program that aims to discover the real-world efficiency of zero-emissions work trucks. During the 17th day of the program – the…
VINFAST to Enter India Vietnam-based electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast, a tough competitor to Tesla, is eyeing the Indian market with plans to establish a manufacturing unit, potentially in Gujarat or Tamil Nadu, as recently reported. The company’s intentions regarding export or catering primarily to the Indian market remain unclear at this stage. Reports from Various…
JSW Cement has procured the current electric trucks from Murugappa Group. New Delhi:JSW Cement, a leading green cement company and part of USD 23 billion JSW Group, has commenced a pilot of electric truck trials as part of its plan to reduce carbon footprint in logistics operations. The company plans to achieve this by replacing…
Construction of Volvo Cars and Northvolt’s joint Li-on battery gigafactory in Gothenburg, Sweden, is now underway. Once complete, it will be among the largest in Europe, with over 3,000 employees and potential to produce batteries for around half a million cars per year. During the summer, Novo Energy, the joint company, had its environmental permit…
The all-electric Honda N-Van e: was revealed in Japan yesterday, retaining most of the ICE model’s characteristics while adding the benefit of a zero-emissions powertrain. Set to go on display during the Japan Mobility Show 2023 at the end of October, the battery-powered small commercial vehicle will go on sale in the spring of next…
Tata Nexon EV: V2V and V2L Technology India’s most popular electric car Tata Nexon EV again relaunched in September 2023 in two variants Long range and Medium range which have six different exciting colors. Long Range which has 40.5 kWh of battery capacity giving a range of 465 km and Medium Range which has 30…
StoreDot, the pioneer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles, has signed a landmark multi-year agreement with Volvo Cars to develop an optimized battery for next generation Volvo cars. This collaboration, with experts from Volvo Cars and StoreDot working together, will lead to the development of XFC cells which will be optimized…
The world spends at least $22 billion every year to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, dengue and other devastating diseases. That money buys billions of liters of insecticides, millions of kilograms of larvicides and 75 million insecticide-treated bed nets. Hundreds of millions more dollars are poured into research each year on new ways to kill…
On a muggy evening in July on the island of Príncipe, part of a volcanic archipelago 200 miles off the West African mainland, 11,000 mosquitoes dusted in fluorescent green powder flew together into the heavy equatorial air, tiny volunteers in the service of science. Over the next 10 nights, another group of volunteers, human ones,…
The narrow wooden benches in the student health clinic at Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia’s second-largest city began to fill up in March last year: feverish students slumped against their friends, cradling aching heads in their hands. Helen Asaminew, the presiding nurse, was baffled. The students had the hallmark symptoms of malaria. But people didn’t…
