This year’s EVangelise takes the competition to the next level with the introduction of funding opportunities, apart from cash prizes and incubation support. New Delhi: iCreate (International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology), a leading innovation-based startup incubator in India, hosts the 5-day Bootcamp of India’s largest EV innovation challenge, EVangelise ’23 at its campus near…
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. Their work enabled potent Covid vaccines to be made in less than a year, averting tens of millions of deaths and helping the world recover from the worst pandemic in…
The list of individual companies that have a meaningful impact on global greenhouse gas emissions is relatively short, and dominated by oil and gas producers. Think Exxon, Shell, Chevron and BP. But there is another company that belongs in that conversation: JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, which has annual revenues of more than $50…
Updated user manuals released by Nio include a new 150-kilowatt-hour semi-solid state battery pack alongside the existing battery types. The solid-state batteries will be available on the Nio ES6 in China starting in July, as per Nio CEO William Li. In solid-state batteries, solid electrolytes – the charge-carrying components between the two electrodes – are…
Everybody knows that electric vehicles are generally quieter than combustion cars, thanks to not having millions of explosions going on under the hood. But Volvo, with its all-new EM90 electric minivan, wants to take quietness to the next level, or at least that’s what we’re getting from the official press material. Unveiled in all its…
The new Mercedes-Benz eCitan is now available to order for UK customers, spearheading premium electric vehicles in the small van segment. Production and delivery of the L1 panel van variant are anticipated to take place next month, with orders for L2 versions following later this year and crew van models early next year. Designed with…
For more than two decades, workers at a factory in Perrysburg, Ohio, near Toledo, have been making something that other businesses stopped producing in the United States long ago: solar panels. How the company that owns the factory, First Solar, managed to hang on when most solar panel manufacturing left the United States for China…
The battery-operated, environment-friendly e-rickshaws, deployed by NGO, come as a relief for the pilgrims in that regard. Baltal (JK), A Kanpur-based NGO has introduced free e-rickshaw services to make the final leg of the arduous journey of Amarnath Yatra comfortable for the pilgrims. The e-rickshaws have been deployed to ferry pilgrims from Domail to the…
DAS is just the latest company to announce that it will supply Hyundai’s USD 7.5 billion plant to assemble electric vehicles and batteries in Ellabell, near Savannah. The Hyundai plant, which was announced last year, could grow to 8,500 employees and is scheduled to begin producing vehicles in 2025. A South Korean company that makes…
Tesla chief Elon Musk has given the clearest indication yet that prices of its electric cars could get even cheaper in future. Off the back of multiple price decreases that have seen Tesla demand surge, the world’s dominant electric car brand has hinted that more price drops could be in the wings if economic conditions…
