India’s truck makers to tackle pollution with electric trucks amid climate goals – pioneering initiatives in battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. India, the world’s most polluted country after Bangladesh, has a truck-sized problem to tackle if it wants to meet its climate goals: a greener commercial fleet in order to limit emissions that…
EV Connect, an American provider of electric vehicle charging management solutions, has partnered with Marriott International, which is one of the largest lodging companies in the world, to deploy EV chargers at up to 6,000 qualifying locations throughout the United States and Canada. With this being said, it doesn’t mean that 6,000 Marriott hotels in…
Green sea turtles had an exceptional nesting season on Florida’s beaches in 2023, with volunteers counting more than 74,300 nests, according to preliminary data. That beats the previous record, from 2017, by a staggering 40 percent. “The increase is an explosion” and a welcome surprise, said Simona Ceriani, a research scientist who coordinated the annual…
It turned out that some manufacturers were importing ready-to-use parts, mainly from China, and thus had little control over the quality of their end products, leaving customers vulnerable to life-threatening incidents. When India decided to make a concerted push to green the world’s biggest two-wheeler market, a slew of electric scooter startups emerged almost overnight….
SCL is the only government-owned semiconductor fabrication unit that produces chips for strategic purposes. India wants to enter its own old warhorse among global biggies in its semiconductor race. While the ground has been broken for Micron‘s semiconductor plant in Gujarat, India’s first, and two other big semiconductor proposals are under process. They are expected…
Japanese carmaker Subaru, which currently makes just one battery electric vehicle (BEV), the Solterra, will adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector from 2025, the company said in a statement today. Cars that came from the factory with the CCS inlet – that’s the Solterra – will get access to the 15,000+ Tesla Superchargers…
One of the thoughts that go through the mind of an EV owner has to do with the impact that DC fast charging will have on the vehicle’s high-voltage battery in the long run. In other words, how much will the battery degrade over time if fast charging is used predominantly? Well, according to a…
UK-based EV conversion specialist Everrati revealed the latest addition to its growing portfolio: a zero emission Mercedes-Benz SL W113 ‘Pagoda’. The new benchmark for understated sustainable luxury, the new model made its global debut at the renowned Fairmont Monte Carlo, just a stone’s throw from the famous Formula 1 Hairpin Curve and will be on…
“To expand production, we must ensure the stable procurement of materials. Thus, we will forge strategic partnerships with various companies,” Denso President Shinnosuke Hayashi said at the Japan Mobility Show. Japanese automotive supplier Denso will invest about 500 billion yen (USD 3.3 billion) in semiconductors by 2030 as aims to triple the scale of its…
StoreDot, the developer of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology, has confirmed that its silicon dominant battery cells have successfully passed an extended set of charging profile tests. The results show that consecutive extreme fast charging conditions did not degrade StoreDot’s cells, even after 1000 consecutive XFC cycles – a result that proves the unique…
