Swiss-designed Elextra EV supercar will be quick and rare
With a combined peak 680 horsepower, the car will sprint from a stop to 62 miles per hour in under 2.3 seconds (look out, Tesla). Top speed is limited, though, to 155 miles per hour.
Archive for year: 2017
Why Tesla could become the next Apple
Tesla is betting that it can create a fully automated manufacturing process that will be as revolutionary as Henry Ford’s continuous assembly line.
Daan Roosegaarde introduces smog-sucking, air-cleaning bikes
These bikes could work much like his Smog Free Tower does, absorbing dirty air, cleaning it, and pouring it back out as fresh air.
EPA asked the public which regulations to gut — and got an earful about leaving them alone
More than 55,100 responses rolled in by the time the comment period closed on Monday — but they were full of Americans sharing their experiences of growing up with dirty air and water, and with pleas for the agency not to undo safeguards that could return the country to more a more polluted era.
‘They’re everywhere’: Oil, gas wells dot developments, raising potential dangers
A few weeks ago Julia Chapman’s daughter was heading to a playdate across the street in their recently built suburb in Firestone, Colo. Suddenly, the friend’s house exploded, killing two of the friend’s relatives who were in the basement.
Merkel admits Germany won’t meet 1 million electric-car target
German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged that a plan to have 1 million electric cars on the country’s roads by 2020 won’t work out, even as the automakers that make up the nation’s biggest manufacturing sector prepare a slew of emissions-free models.
Automakers are realizing maybe they don’t want Trump’s deregulation after all
The relationship between U.S. automakers and Donald Trump has been weird from the outset of his presidency.
38,000 people a year die early because of diesel emissions testing failures
Researchers have created the first global inventory of the emissions pumped out by cars and trucks on the road, over and above the legal limits which are monitored by lab-based tests.
Amid gas-tax revenue decline, new fees on fuel-efficient cars
As the revenue from gasoline taxes decreases with the rise of fuel-efficient vehicles, many states are looking for alternative sources of money to build and maintain their roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
Will Trump EPA target CA electric-car, emissions rules? Not yet, maybe; here’s why
That could happen, though it would be a major court battle that might last the entire remainder of Trump’s first four-year presidential term.
