The notion known as sustainability is all about making the moves to help protect the environment. In the case of automakers—reducing harmful emissions from their vehicles and manufacturing plants and producing zero emission electric vehicles.
But a new study from Capgemini Invent reveals many automakers have a long way go to use their sustainab...
Domino’s and Nuro are kicking off a robotic pizza delivery pilot in Houston this week, giving customers there the option to have orders brought to them by the Silicon Valley autonomous driving tech developer’s small vehicles that look a bit like toasters on wheels.
The program involves just one Domino’s shop, located in Houston’s Woodland Heights...
According to Elon Musk in addition to a host of automotive and transportation experts, autonomous vehicles were supposed to be a familiar feature of the modern-day cityscape by now.
Such ambitious predictions have since proved to be significantly premature.
The autonomous vehicle hype bubble appears to have burst around 2015 and many in the ind...
Turn a wrench.
As you might know, that is the customary parlance used to refer to a car enthusiast (they can “turn a wrench” or mechanically work on a car). Such devotees are often characterized as so-called motorheads or in other countries a revered petrol-head (there is an ongoing debate about whether this “petrol” reference is going to be fitti...
Volkswagen used to be the mass market carmaker everyone loved for its mainstream vehicles that anyone could afford, like the Beetle, Golf and split-screen camper van. But then Dieselgate tarnished its reputation. Now the German behemoth appears to be back – this time in electric form. In Europe, we had the ID. 3 compact car last year, which has alr...
It’s been a long year. Our latest 30 Under 30 Europe Manufacturing & honorees gives us hope for a more sustainable future.
For many young entrepreneurs, the sky's the limit. Ehsanullah Ekhlas decided to get there by digging holes in the ground.
As cofounder and CEO of Unicontrol ApS, a Denmark-based startup with a user-friendly machine c...
UPS plans to buy up to 150 small electric aircraft from startup BETA Technologies that the delivery giant thinks can help get goods to customers in small and mid-size markets faster and with less carbon emissions.
Deliveries of the first 10 BETA electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing, or EVTOL, vehicles begin in 2024, says UPS, which h...
As his electric vehicle and space exploration companies fired on all cylinders, Elon Musk’s fortune increased by more than $126 billion in just one year.
Even amid a record year for billionaire wealth, no one in the world has had a better twelve months than Elon Musk. The Tesla cofounder and CEO’s fortune has grown an unprecedented amount, making...
The headlines proclaiming the emergence of self-driving cars are usually soaked in high praise for the advent of these technological marvels.
This heralding of such wonderment in innovation is certainly understandable.
Getting a car to be driven entirely by automation and altogether absent of human hand at the wheel is an enormous feat, let t...
It’s Spring time!
Makes one hark back to visiting local county fairs and doing all the usual things that one does at such events, including eating scrumptious cotton candy, going on the dizzying whirly rides, and of course watching the annual car-smashing demolition derbies.
Demolition derbies were first popularized in the 1960s and 1970s and ...