The all-electric 2024 Mini Countryman crossover made its first appearance in North America yesterday, with deliveries expected to begin in the US in the fall of next year. Initially unveiled in Europe at the beginning of the month at IAA Mobility in Munich, Germany, the third-generation Countryman, now fully electrified, marked this year’s Climate Week…
Volta Trucks, the all-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, has completed an initial life cycle assessment of the all-new 16-tonne Volta Zero. The company appointed Global Environmental and Engineering specialist, Ricardo, to undertake a cradle-to-grave Life Cycle Assessment of its pre-production 16-tonne ambient cargo box all-electric Volta Zero. Manufacturers have previously published Life Cycle…
“Reshoring is increasingly viewed as a way to address the challenges of disruptive supply chains and uncertainty, but it can introduce complexities of its own,” Joerg Reger, Managing Director of ABB Robotics Automotive Business Line. New Delhi: ABB’s YuMi cobots are enabling the reshoring of production and helping to address challenges presented by workforce shortages…
By 2030, Bosch plans to generate sales of roughly EUR 5 billion with hydrogen technology. Stuttgart: In the landscape of changing energy mix for the mobility industry, Bosch will invest nearly EUR 2.5 billion in H2 (Hydrogen) technology by 2026. It has employed around 3,000 people for this. Bosch has also started commercial production of…
About a week after the European deliveries of the updated Tesla Model 3 “Highland” started, the first owners who got their hands on the facelifted EV went on Reddit to tell the world how the car drives, how its interior looks like, and what annoying bits come with the package. A thread was started on…
Polestar has published the first Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Polestar 4. The LCA reveals that Polestar 4 has the lowest carbon footprint of all Polestar cars to date – as low as 19.4 tonnes of CO2e at launch. Polestar 4 is produced in Geely Holdings’ SEA factory in Hangzhou Bay, China, which combines green…
The e-rickshaws were donated by alumni Onkar Pahwa, a city-based manufacturer under his company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative. The free of cost e-rickshaw service at Punjab Agricultural University, which was introduced in 2018, is allegedly costing the drivers dear. Meant to facilitate transportation of students, faculty, and guests and reduce air and noise pollution,…
We have discovered a lot in this universe. Planets that orbit stars at right angles. Forbidden worlds that have cheated death. Space explosions that defy explanation. Yet the cosmos continues to surprise us. The latest spectacle, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, is an agglomeration of nearly 150 free-floating objects amid the Orion Nebula,…
July appears to be the first month ever when new all-electric car registrations in the United States exceeded 100,000 units. According to the registration data from Experian (via Automotive News), the total number of BEV registrations, during the first seven months of 2023, amounted to 655,986, which is about 67 percent more than a year…
Kia America confirmed on Wednesday that the starting price of the 2024 EV9 will be just over $56,000. That’s for the EV9 Light, in single-motor rear-wheel-drive form, seating up to seven in three rows. The Light starts at $54,900, Kia says, but it hasn’t yet confirmed an exact destination fee. Assuming $1,365, that amounts to…
