Voyage Auto – A new contender in the autonomous ride-sharing market
Voyage Auto, a spin-off of Udacity, is now the newest contender in the autonomous ride-sharing business. The company does not aim at building new vehicles ...
Lyft receives $500 million in funding
Ride-hailing company Lyft, rival of Uber, has recently secured $500 million from funding that now values the Lyft at $6.9 billion. While it is not clear ...
London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone to be implemented sooner
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is fasttracking the introduction of an Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ). Instead of September 2020, new legislation will be ...
8 North American universities to compete in an autonomous vehicle competition
SAE International, SAE World Experience, and General Motors have recently announced the participants for the three-year AutoDrive Challenge. The primary ...
Wastewater as a valuable resource
The Marselisborg Wastewater Treatment Plant in Aarhus, a wasterwater plant in Denmark, generated 70 percent more energy than required to operate in 2016. ...
Scientists genetically engineer sugarcane to produce lipid-cane
Under the Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS) research product, a team of researchers has genetically engineered ...
GE Renewable Energy to realize $330 million wind energy project
Advancing in their existing partnership, GE Renewable Energy is building a 250 megawatt wind farm for Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE) in Willow Springs, Texas. ...
Storing solar energy in liquid form and delivering on demand
A team of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, has demonstrated efficient solar energy storage in liquid form. Using an ...
Saab Gripen fighter completes its first 100% biofuel powered test flights
Saab, the Swedish aerospace giant recently conducted its first flight tests with 100% biofuel. A Saab Gripen D (dual seat) fighter, used the fuel Catalytic ...
Turning salt water to drinking water with graphene
Researchers at the University of Manchester, England, have developed a method to make drinking water out of salt water using graphene. While the ...
