QuantumScape unveiled the data about its new solid-state battery technology today, revealing some impressive results with fast-charging and long-range capacity. It received praise from many battery experts, including Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, who described the result as “a major breakthrough.” QuantumScape QuantumScape is a San Jose-based battery company founded 10 years ago by Jagdeep Singh,
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Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about climate change during a campaign event at the Delaware Museum of Natural History in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., September 14, 2020. Leah Millis | Reuters In the past four years, preventing climate change and saving the environment have not been high priorities in the
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses as he arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Awards ceremony, in Berlin, on December 1, 2020. Britta Pedersen | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk said Tuesday that while SpaceX and Tesla maintain major operations in California today, he has personally moved to Texas.
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways is selling two of its newest aircraft to raise tens of millions of pounds that will help it to navigate through the bleakest winter in the recent history of commercial aviation. Sky News has learnt that the carrier, which concluded a £1.2bn rescue deal during the summer, is to
December 8th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan A couple of months ago, I talked with Roger Atkins of Electric Vehicles Outlook about the impressive “Electric Forecourts” that British firm Gridserve is developing and planning, starting with one that was under development at the time and has just now been completed. There are a few elements to
Organisers of the Bad Sex In Fiction award have called this year’s ceremony off – saying people have suffered enough in 2020. Set up in 1993 by the Literary Review, the annual prize honours the “most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel”. But as the world remains in the grip
“I knew he was a little bit out of the ordinary, a little bit weird.” Lorenzo Rosa, unlike his father Georgio, says he never had ambitions to create his own micronation. In fact, he’s admits it was “a crazy thing to do… but those years were kind of crazy years”. Bolognese engineer Georgio Rosa founded
The government will drop parts of legislation that could have seen the UK break international law after reaching an “agreement in principle” on Brexit divorce issues. Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said he was “delighted” to have reached an agreement, including on post-Brexit arrangements for the Irish border. As a result, the government said it
They are the history makers – the first people in the UK and the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine outside a clinical trial. People aged over 80, as well as care home workers and NHS staff, have been given the first batches as the mass vaccination programme is rolled out nationwide. So who are
Lexus is teasing an upcoming new electric SUV powered by the automaker’s new “DIRECT4” drivetrain technology. Like its parent company, Toyota, Lexus has been lagging behind in electrification. You could argue that the market disruption is even more important for the luxury brand since premium segments are being electrified much faster than the lower end
Exxon Mobil could become the most interesting target of a combined attack from activist hedge funds and long-term impact investors focused on sustainability and carbon emissions. A newly formed activist investor group, Engine No. 1, announced plans on Monday to seek four board seats at the oil and gas giant, and underlying the effort are
Farmers have gone on strike across India in a dispute over new agriculture laws, with thousands continuing to block key roads on the edge of New Delhi in protest. Heavy security is in place across the country to try to prevent any violence. In Delhi, the capital, police are out in strength and have warned
Britain’s jobs outlook is the weakest in Europe according to a survey by recruitment firm Manpower. The global poll, which included 1,300 UK employers, found the picture had improved slightly since the summer but remained behind that on the continent. In London, the outlook for the first quarter of 2021 is at an all-time low,
Margaret Keenan came into hospital last Wednesday for a routine appointment. She will be discharged later today after making history. At 6.31am the 90-year-old grandmother-of-four became the first patient in the world to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccination outside of a trial. Mrs Keenan, who lives in Coventry but is originally from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, was
President-elect Joe Biden is poised to nominate retired four-star army general Lloyd J Austin to be secretary of defence – making him the first black leader of the Pentagon. Mr Biden has selected General Austin over long-time front-running candidate Michele Flournoy, sources have said. Ms Flournoy is a former senior Pentagon official and supporter of
December 8th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan Well, this is a new one. A bankruptcy auction is taking place in which of hundreds of mobile solar generator trailers are being auctioned off for, well, the best price. You can find the products and bid on them at BidIndustrial.com. The auctions are taking place in California, Nevada,
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