Rep. Cindy Axne votes for Bipartisan Bill to increase American manufacturing and jobs
Rep. Cindy Axne has voted to increase semi-conductor manufacturing in America to help supply chains create jobs, and save lowans money. Semiconductors are chips that are now found in a wide range of consumer goods, and are critical to the production of cars, computers, and...
New Jersey to lower electric vehicle incentive and spread $35M among more buyers
New Jersey’s electric vehicle incentive plan enters its next phase, the state’s Board of Public Utilities wants more mileage out of its money. The state board’s Charge Up program plans to reduce its maximum incentive for the 2023 fiscal year to $4000 in an...
Honda plans for North America EV rollout
Honda has been slow in the electrification race unlike other major brands, in fact the automaker does not currently offer an electric vehicle in its line up. However, this year it has made plans to introduce 30 EVs globally by 2030, aiming to hit global...
General Motors producing only 12 new electric vehicles a day
The waiting list for the General Motors new electric Hummer is now up to 77,000 buyers and despite this, General Motors are only producing 12 vehicles a day. Production began more than six months ago, and is therefore, taking an unusually slow pace. GM first...
The Colorado Smart City Alliance has launched the C2 Challenge
The Colorado Smart City Alliance has recently launched the C2 Challenge, that aims to address four specific problems faced by the residents of Colorado: housing stability, safe streets, community resilience, and civic engagement. It is said that communities are still struggling to rebuild and think...
Tesco to use the UK’s first fully electric heavy trucks
The UK’s leading supermarket chain Tesco is to take delivery of the county’s first commercial fully electric heavy freight articulated trucks. Two 37 tonne DAF trucks will carry food and other products from Wentloog rail terminal outside Cardiff to Tesco’s distribution centre at Magor, near...
Audi realises its novel urban charging concept in Nuremberg
German car maker Audi has opened the first of its unique charging cubes, conceptually first revealed in May last year, that utilise second-life batteries and low-voltage grid connections. The new facility at an exhibition centre in Nuremberg is built using containers equipped with second-life batteries...
Independently tested Volvo truck exceeds official range
Trucking journalist Jan Burgdorf has put a Volvo FH Electric truck through its paces on an independent test using Germany’s Green Truck Route, a 343 km long route that includes a variety of motorways, hilly terrains, and tighter roads that is used for testing different...
Indian investment accelerates UK sodium-ion battery technology
Reliance New Energy Solar, a subsidiary of India’s largest private sector company Reliance Industries, is to acquire British company Faradion, a world leader in Sodium-ion battery technology for £100 million. In addition, Reliance will also invest £25 million as growth capital to accelerate commercial roll...
No human intervention truck completes 80-mile run in Arizona
San Diego head-quartered autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, according to the company. TuSimple’s Autonomous Driving System (ADS) navigated the 80-mile run along surface streets and highways between a railyard...
