San Francisco partially banned delivery robots because they obstructed pedestrians, so Postmates built one with eyes, turn signals and a mandate to yield.
Dyson is building an electric car, the company revealed last week, and now we know a bit more about their specific plan to bring one to market. Dyson
Tesla’s Semi is an all-electric semi truck, which itself is a major feat, but its powertrain isn’t the only technological innovation that the automaker is applying to trucking. One other key element of the new Semi is that it will automatically avoid one of the most notorious, and dangerous potential safety issues faced by big […]
BMW says that it’ll have a total of 25 electrified vehicles in its lineup by 2025, with a full dozen of those being full-electric cars. These should have a usable range of up to 435 miles, BMW CEO Harald Krueger told reporters, according to Reuters. That’s another brick in the wall for the ongoing automotive […]
Healthy oceans are on the minds of Marc and Lynne Benioff, and they showed it today with a $1.5 million donation to the Sustainable Oceans Alliance, a new non-profit attempting to promote and incubate conservation-focused startups. The money will considerably expand the organization's upcoming Ocean Solutions accelerator.
Volkswagen has been showing off its I.D. line of concept electric vehicles for a couple of years now, but we won't have to wait long for them to actually
When the hell did building a house become so complicated? Don’t let the folks on HGTV fool you. The process of building a home nowadays is incredibly
Audi's looking ahead to the what its vehicles will look like once true self-driving technology is available and on the roads with the Aicon, a new concept
Lyndon Rive, the CEO and co-founder of SolarCity prior to its acquisition by Tesla, will leave the automaker/energy company in June. Rive announced his departure on Monday, saying he's departing in order to spend more time with family and to spin up a new company sometime next year.
Sila Nanotechnologies and its battery materials manufacturing technology are now worth more than $1 billion. The company, which announced a $170 million
It's been hard to miss the scooter startup wars opening fresh, techno-fueled rifts in Valley society in recent months. Another flavor of ride-sharing
Over the past few years, Chinese automaker giant BYD has been on a partnership spree with cities across China to electrify their public transportation
Google today announced that it is renaming Skybox Imaging, the satellite startup it acquired in 2014, to Terra Bella. More than just a name change, though, the company says this switch is also about showing that Terra Bella is not only about putting small imaging satellites into orbit, but now also about analyzing these images.
What lies beneath the murky depths? SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive wants to help you and the scientific community find out. He's just led a $7 million
The days when you could simply grow a basil plant from a seed by placing it on your windowsill and watering it regularly are gone — there's no point now that machine learning-optimized hydroponic "cyber-agriculture" has produced a superior plant with more robust flavors. The future of pesto is here.
Another automaker is vowing to turn its entire lineup a little more green: Aston Martin told the Financial Times that it'll offer vehicles exclusively
While Elon Musk is preparing for this week's launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, his other company is also preparing for a launch. Tesla has made a deal
Swedish tech startup Einride has built a full-scale prototype of its T-Pod, the electric autonomous transport vehicle it hopes will eventually replace smaller heavy-duty trucks, featuring remote control operation and a 200 kWh energy capacity with a maximum range of around 124 miles.
Volvo tuner Polestar, which the carmaker acquired in 2015 to build its own race-ready Volve cars, is now being set up as its own separate company within
The Green New Deal has burst onto the American stage, spurring more conversation about – and aspiration for – ambitious climate policy than at any point in at least a decade.
Motorcycle giant Harley-Davidson is now a stakeholder in Alta Motors, the electric motorcycle and light vehicle EV drivetrain maker based in Brisbane, California. Harley-Davidson and Alta made the investment public today, and also announced that Alta Motors will collaborate with the legendary motorbike maker on building future electric motorcycles as part of the deal. This […]
Tesla is going to be working with its first pilot customers for its all-electric Semi truck to build charging stations at their shipping facilities, Reuters reports. We know relatively little about how Tesla will be piloting its truck thus far, but this new info sheds some light on the charging component of the puzzle. Tesla […]
Tesla will up its game in the renewable energy storage market with the largest lithium-ion battery storage facility in the world, to be built for Australia's Hornsdale Wind Farm. The facility will use Tesla's commercial battery storage Powerpack modules, which will store energy generated from the farm's turbines during peak generation hours and make it available when the grid needs it.
Tesla has a new way to demonstrate the possibilities of its home solar products to potential customers – using a 'tiny house' on wheels, which it can tow
Single-use plastics are the scourge of the environment, which is why many lawmakers are working to eliminate them. Today, a new brand is launching to try to eliminate single-use plastic in the area of personal care. With $4 million in seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau (with participation from Red Sea Ventures, BoxGroup, SV Angel, […]
The first car from Henrik Fisker's new electric vehicle company, the EMotion luxury sport sedan, will premiere at CES in January 2018. That's according to
Tesla is ramping up its deployment of Supercharger stations across the U.S. and internationally as part of its commitment to addressing growing demand, especially in light of the Model 3 beginning production. Now, it's moving to get Superchargers in more populated city centers, in addition to highway and travel destination spots outside of metropolitan areas.
BMW Group, Daimler, Ford Motor Company, and the Volkswagen Group (with subsidiaries Audi and Porsche) will join up to create a high-power charging network
Image 4 of 19 from gallery of Masquerade Photography Studio / 123 architects. Photograph by Weiqi Jin
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Solar installations are becoming a no-brainer for anyone with a roof in much of the country. But getting an estimate on how much it would cost and how much juice it would generate can be complicated and time consuming. Aurora Solar has made an automated process for doing this, and attracted $20 million in funding as a result.
Tesla is moving to turn around its output challenges with the Model 3, with a new acquisition reported by Bloomberg of a supplier whose focus is on
Automaker Volkswagen’s ramping up for its big EV push, with $25 billion in committed battery supplies and plans to outfit 16 factories to build electric cars by the end of 2022, up from three with that capacity in the VW stable right now. Thus far, Volkswagen’s focus is on battery suppliers in Europe and China, […]
We were promised flying cars but, as it turns out, flying boats were easier to build. SeaBubbles, a "flying" boat startup that uses electric power instead
