Don’t let the rats fool you. Although the pizza-pilfering vagabonds — and a variety of other creatures — thrive in cities, for many wild animals urban environments are unappealing homes, covered in concrete and carved up by car traffic. As buildings go up and roads are laid down, some species seem to vanish from the…
Espen Finstad was trudging through mud in the Jotunheimen mountains of eastern Norway this month when he happened upon a wooden arrow, bound with a pointed tip made of quartzite. Complete with feathers, it was so well-preserved that it looked as if it could have been lost just recently. But Mr. Finstad, a glacial archaeologist…
Charlotte Banks lives in a house that just about anyone would envy. Hempnalls Hall, a pink structure dating to the 16th century, rises above an even older moat, dug to keep marauders away in ancient times. Now, a different type of threat looms. National Grid, Britain’s electricity system operator, proposes building a sprawling, 110-mile transmission…
EV Platforms What is an EV Platform? A platform is a primary vehicle frame without a power unit (an engine or a motor), a chassis, or a body. The basic structure is based on the concept that this platform will act as a fully autonomous system that consists of many components of an EV, such as…
The Tesla Cybertruck recently appeared on the NHTSA’s 2024 Model Year VIN Decoder, revealing some interesting details. The 17-digit VIN number in 2024 includes the Cybertruck, marked as “C” for digit 4 (“T” would be the Tesla Semi, while cars can be identified by “3”, “S”, “X”, “Y”). The major thing to look at is…
Japanese machinery company THK, which is known for being the first in the world to develop a linear motion method with rolling contact back in the 1970s, has revealed an electric vehicle concept that features things like in-wheel motors, wireless charging, and electric service brakes, making it quite a surprising appearance in the world of…
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…
LIB Partners with VoltUp To assemble 500,000 lib lithium-ion batteries over the subsequent 3 years LIB, a lithium-ion batteries manufacturer, is set to turbocharge India’s electric mobility transition with a major contract manufacturing deal. LIB has signed an agreement with VoltUp, a Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) start-up, to provide 50,000 lithium-ion batteries in 2024, followed by an…
Denso reiterated an October commitment to invest about 500 billion yen in semiconductors by 2030. Japanese automotive supplier Denso aims to increase its revenue from electrification to 1.2 trillion yen ($7.97 billion) by the 2025 business year and 1.7 trillion yen by the turn of the decade, the company said on Wednesday. Denso aimed to…
BMW Group has become the latest major global automaker to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) for its electric vehicles sold in the US and Canada. The German carmaker announced today that drivers of battery electric vehicles from the BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce brands featuring the Combined Charging System (CCS) in the US and Canada…
