Energy & Green Tech
The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit global warming, according to a new study that counters concerns about ...
Jan 27, 2023
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Much money and time has been spent recently persuading people not to be so reliant on cars. And there are certainly good reasons—for our health and the environment—to move about more on foot, by bike or on trains.
May 29, 2024
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Automotive
The breathless hype around driverless electric vehicles once promised an urban transport "revolution," with claims that new technologies would ease congestion and eliminate harmful emissions. The potential benefits of these ...
Oct 18, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Sales of new electric cars in Norway hit a record high last year, sector experts said Friday, reaching 42.4 percent of all nearly-registered cars in 2019, mostly thanks to strong demand for Tesla's Model 3.
Jan 3, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Tesla chief Elon Musk has promised "insane" battery news at a streamed event after the company's annual shareholders' meeting on Tuesday.
Sep 22, 2020
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Anyone who's ever watched the classic 1960s cartoon "The Jetsons" will recall the flying cars everyone used. Ever since, people have wondered when the day might come that flying cars could become reality.
Apr 24, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A new study led by Dr. Xuekun Lu from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with an international team of researchers from the UK and U.S. has found a way to prevent lithium plating in electric vehicle batteries, ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Automotive
Self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles, have long been earmarked as the next generation mode of transport. To enable the autonomous navigation of such vehicles in different environments, many different technologies relating ...
Dec 12, 2022
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Sales of new cars in Germany increased in 2023, official data showed Thursday, but an end to government subsidy programs saw electric vehicles lose ground on fossil-fuel models.
Jan 4, 2024
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Electric cars, trains, trams and boats already exist. That logically leads to the question: why are we not seeing large electric aircraft? And will we see them any time soon?
Sep 20, 2019
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An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.
As of 2002, there were 590 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people). Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.
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