Vancouver based Damon Motors is showcasing its HyperDrive and HyperSport EV platforms at Los Angeles based Petersen Automotive Museum's "Electric Revolutionaries" exhibit.
Porsche, Siemens Energy and a line-up of international companies are starting a pilot project in Chile to build the world's first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (e-fuels). Around 130,000 l of e-fuels will be produced as early as this year. Capacity is then to be increased to about 55m l a year by 2024, and to 550m l by 2026. The project will use wind energy in southern Chile. The fuel will allow vehicles with combustion engines, including motorcycles, to be operated almost climate-neutrally. Porsche has also increased its stake in e-fuels group HIF Global, which is planning a potential A$1bn production facility in Australia that will be modelled on southern Chile.
A project by the Politecnico di Milano has set a new World Record for a self-driving car - on the strait of the Space Shuttle airstrip at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 'PoliMOVE' recorded 192.2 mph/309.3 kph - "never before has a car driven by artificial intelligence alone been this fast". The previous record held by Roborace was 175.49 mph/282.42 kph. The speed was obtained as an average of over 1 km in two consecutive attempts in opposite directions (to eliminate the effects of the wind).
Electrek reports that Miami-based electric scooter company Fluid FreeRide has paid to have 1 million trees planted. Partnering with 'Trees for the Future', a non-profit, the company says it has been funding the planting of 100 trees for each electric scooter sold.
It has been reported that a new type of battery technology could reduce the charge times of electric vehicles from hours to minutes. Calculations made by scientists at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea revealed that so-called quantum batteries would reduce typical home charging times of electric cars from 10 hours to just three minutes.
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