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Coal is unloaded onto large piles at the Ulan Coal mines near the central New South Wales rural town of Mudgee in Australia, March 8, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo MELBOURNE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Coal will be a major contributor to Australia's economy well beyond 2030 given growth in global...

GM to halt production at nearly all North America assembly plants due to new chip problem General Motors will idle the plants starting Monday for two weeks due to COVID-19 affecting the production of semiconductor chips Jamie L. LaReau General Motors will idle nearly all its assembly plants...

Nissan joins UN-backed ‘Race to Zero’ campaign, aiming for 100% EVs by… ‘the early 2030s’ Nissan has announced that it’s the first Japanese automaker to join a United Nations-supported “Race to Zero” campaign, which is focused on accelerating electric vehicle implementation and reaching carbon...

GM expands battery recall to ALL 2017-2022 Chevy Bolt EVs including EUV, blames supplier LG Seth Weintraub - Aug. 20th 2021 1:59 pm PT @llsethj GM Friday afternoon announced it would expand its Bolt recall to ALL Chevy Bolts including ones manufactured in the US and including the 2022...

US Government Rations Colorado River Water For First Time In History For the first time since the Hoover Dam was completed, the federal government has announced cuts in the amount of water some states will receive from the Colorado River We have been writing about it for years, the...

How ‘switched reluctance motors’ are being brought back, mainly to advance electric mobility M Ramesh | Updated on August 15, 2021 It is an age-old, simple and cheap technology, yet shelved for nearly two centuries because it was never easy to use. It is a technology centred around reluctance...

Auto suppliers weigh their paths forward in an increasingly electrified market BY JAYSON BUSSASunday, August 15, 2021 06:00pm Magna International Inc. CEO Seetarama Kotagiri got right to the point in discussing the implications of an increasingly electrified vehicle fleet on the global...

Hyperdrive In Russia’s Wild East, An Electric Car Proves Cheaper Than a Lada With Asia literally next door, Khabarovsk benefits from used EV imports and from market forces that make the second-hand plug-ins desirable. By Olga Tanas and Dina Khrennikova August 11, 2021, 11:00 PM CDT More than...

To every age dogged with pollution, accidents and congestion, the transport solution for the next generation seems obvious – but the same problems keep coming back by Tom Standage In the 1890s, the biggest cities of the western world faced a mounting problem. Horse-drawn vehicles had been in...

Washington — The Detroit automakers and the United Auto Workers are in discussions with officials in the Biden White House as it aims to broker a voluntary agreement to dramatically increase electric vehicle sales over the next decade. The White House is seeking to get General Motors Co., Ford...

Nanometer no more: Intel changes its process names to match TSMC By Dave James 3 days ago Promising to "innovate with the magic of silicon" Intel is pushing towards the sub-1nm 'angstrom era of semiconductors'. (Image credit: Intel) Intel is matching foundry rival, TSMC, node-for-node with...

Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles The company was an early adopter of electrified vehicles but has since fallen behind By Andrew J. Hawkins@andyjayhawk Jul 26, 2021, 12:05pm EDT Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The US is slowing moving...

Form Energy Reveals Iron-Air 100 Hour Storage Battery Form Energy says a pilot iron-air battery storage system will be operational by 2023. By Steve Hanley Boston-based Form Energy has been diligently working on an iron-air battery since 2017, but details of its research have been sparse …...

Mercedes-Benz to go all-electric by 2030 "We really want to go for it ... and be dominantly, if not all electric, by the end of the decade," said the head of Daimler, Mercedes-Benz's parent company. July 22, 2021, 7:52 AM CDT / Source: Reuters By Reuters Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler plans to...

KHARI JOHNSON BUSINESS 07.19.2021 07:00 AM Why Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers? Autonomous vehicles use the equivalent of 200 laptops to get around. Some want to tap that computing power to decode viruses or mine bitcoin. Some Tesla owners last year suggested allowing coronavirus...

TSMC reveals plans for further expansion, progress on 3nm process, evolving car tech, amid solid Q1 results Meanwhile Intel reportedly eyes off buying Global Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) has posted typically robust results, and revealed how it hopes to cope with the...

BOSTON, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Here come 600-mile electric cars and they will grab market share even as city cars. At last, you will be able to buy a car that lets you vacation in it wherever you wish. The detail is in the new IDTechEx report, "Routes to 1000 Mile (1600km) Battery...

Daikin plans to enter the automotive market with its new refrigerant, expecting changes to the supply chain with the shift to electric vehicles. (Source photos by AP and Reuters) Nikkei staff writersJuly 7, 2021 18:12 JST TOKYO -- Daikin Industries, Japan's top air conditioner maker, has...

Utilizing ABB's innovative battery technology, Hitachi Construction Machinery trucks can be transformed from diesel to full electric battery operation. Hitachi Construction Machinery and ABB announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to develop an engineless, full battery rigid...

Volvo Penta Starts Production Of E-driveline For EV Fire Truck Rosenbauer “Revolutionary Technology” (RT) is the world’s first serial electric fire truck. Volvo Penta (part of Volvo Group) announced that it has commenced production of bespoke electric drivelines for world’s first serial...