Electric
Pacific Gas and Electric power line broke before Kincade Fire ignited in Sonoma County
Although PG&E cut power in the area on Wednesday afternoon amid dangerous weather conditions, stretches of the company’s high voltage power transmission lines — which were responsible for the state’s deadliest wildfire ever — were still operating in the area when the fire broke out, the utility said in a statement. In the report it …
Electric Shocks Provide Baking Recipe for Success
Electric shocks are used to heat gluten free bread from the inside – successful baking while saving energy and time compared to conventional baking applying heat from the outside. A recent study from the Institute of Food Technology of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna was just published in an …
World-famous black cabs go green with launch of fully electric vehicle
A fully electric version of London’s iconic black cab was launched Wednesday. The zero-emission vehicle, called the Dynamo Taxi, is based on the Nissan e-NV200 Evalia. It has a range of as much as 187 miles on a single charge, can carry a maximum of five passengers and is wheelchair accessible. London’s connection to fully …
Are electric cars as ‘green’ as you think?
It’s predicted that by 2030, over 125 million electric vehicles will be owned by people worldwide. But where’s the lithium that powers their batteries coming from? Most of the world’s stocks of this lightest of metals are found in brine deep beneath salt flats, high in the Andes. In Argentina, in Jujuy – the province …
UK’s Vertical Aerospace Flies Electric Air Taxi Developed Using F1 Technology
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vertical Aerospace has revealed flight footage of an electric vertical take off and landing aircraft (eVTOL). The prototype, named Seraph, completed its maiden flight at Llanbedr Airfield in Wales on August 22. It follows the successful flight of Vertical Aerospace’s first full-scale prototype in May 2018, the UK’s first eVTOL aircraft to be granted …
Harley-Davidson pulls plug temporarily on electric motorcycle production
Harley-Davidson Chief Marketing Officer Heather Malenshek on the company’s new electric motorcycle, the LiveWire and the growing use of technology used in motorcycles. A charging problem has caused Harley-Davidson to temporarily idle production of its LiveWire electric motorcycle. The company is conducting tests to investigate the problem in what is seen as a major setback …
GE pension freeze: General Electric freezing pension plan for 20,000 U.S. employees
General Electric is freezing the pensions of 20,000 U.S. salaried workers to reduce billions in future pension obligations and trim debt. About 700 employees in its supplemental pension program, geared toward executives, will also have their pension benefits frozen. The company said the change won’t impact already retired GE workers. General Electric announced it will freeze …
Tesla’s Q3 electric car deliveries set another record
And crucially, these are newcomers adding to Tesla’s ranks. Much like in Q2, “nearly all” of the 79,600 Model 3s delivered in the period went to customers who didn’t hold a reservation. That’s a sign of “strong organic demand,” if you ask Tesla. Not everything is rosy. Model S and X deliveries were down ever …
Technology leads to the electric scooter invasion
What do the names Beam; Bird; Bolt; Circ; Dott; Jump; Lime; Poppi; Scoot; Skip and Trotti have in common? With less than seven years of history in this market, not many of these are household names…yet. This is despite the fact that some of these companies are worth over US$2 billion. One of the aspects …
Low-cost fracking offers boon to oil producers, headaches for suppliers
SMILEY, Texas (Reuters) – At a dusty drilling site east of San Antonio, shale producer EOG Resources Inc recently completed its latest well using a new technology developed by a small services firm that promises to slash the cost of each by $200,000. The technology, called electric fracking and powered by natural gas from EOG’s …
