The California Legislature this week passed a landmark bill that would require major companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, a move with national and global repercussions in governments’ efforts to fight climate change. A spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, declined on Wednesday to say whether he would sign the bill. If…
Aston Martin’s high-performance electrification strategy has been awarded £9million of government funding through the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC), further supplementing the research and development of Aston Martin’s innovative modular battery electric vehicle (BEV) platform. Awarded following a competitive process, the government grant will support the development of Aston Martin’s luxury BEV platform and enable…
If the area around Jackson, Wyo., boasts two things, they’re natural resources and very rich locals. Nathan Wendt is trying to use the Biden administration’s clean energy incentives to bring the two together. Mr. Wendt, the president of the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs, has spent years working on issues related to climate change…
Burglars sometimes choose good-looking cars like Teslas to steal things from inside homes. And, I’ve been wondering if it’s even possible to steal a Tesla or not. Well, a Tesla car can be stolen using old-fashioned tricks like using a relay attack device or breaking the glass and door, but this doesn’t happen very often….
Cruise last month said it would halt operations nationwide after California regulators suspended the robotaxi operator’s license. More than two dozen unions urged U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday to open an industry-wide probe into driverless vehicles including Alphabet’s Waymo and Amazon.com’s Zoox. The unions, including the Transportation Trades Department, Transport Workers Union of America,…
The Rivian R1T is quite different from the majority of internal combustion pickups out there, not only because it has an all-electric powertrain but also because it has a hybrid construction that mates a unibody shell to a skateboard platform that’s similar to a traditional ladder frame chassis. This has its benefits: more load-sharing points…
Endel Tulving, whose insights into the structure of human memory and the way we recall the past revolutionized the field of cognitive psychology, died on Sept. 11 in Mississauga, Ontario. He was 96. His daughters, Linda Tulving and Elo Tulving-Blais, said his death, at an assisted living home, was caused by complications of a stroke….
Days after starting production of its most expensive model yet, the $249,000 Air Sapphire, Lucid has also announced the launch of the base Air Pure RWD. Available at a starting price of $78,900 (including a $1,500 destination fee), the Lucid Air Pure RWD is the only single-motor model in the Air lineup, featuring a rear-mounted…
Confirmed in March, the BMW iX2 all-electric compact crossover will make its world debut at the Japan Mobility Show 2023 in Tokyo on October 25 as a new member of the second-generation X2 model family. BMW will first reveal the all-new X2 and iX2 on October 10 as part of a digital world premiere, followed…
Rachel Culin considered herself a Toyota loyalist, one of millions of people who appreciated the company’s reliable and fuel-efficient hybrids. But she recently bought an electric Chevrolet Bolt to replace her Toyota Prius because the Japanese automaker had been too slow when it came to selling electric vehicles. “Where are the options for those people…
