Archive for the ‘transportation’ category
Nov 14, 2018
New methane fuel cell fixes temperature issue
Posted by Genevieve O’Hagan in categories: energy, transportation
Nov 14, 2018
Tesla confirms Model 3 is getting a CCS plug in Europe, adapter coming for Model S and Model X
Posted by Genevieve O’Hagan in categories: sustainability, transportation
After years of speculation, Tesla finally confirmed today that Model 3 is getting a CCS Combo 2 plug in Europe and an adapter is coming for Model S and Model X.
With growing third-party fast-charging infrastructure in Europe, electric vehicle owners are starting to have many options.
Tesla owners have access to those networks on top of Tesla’s own Supercharger networks, but they had to use an expensive CHAdeMO adapter, which has its own limitations and isn’t yet compatible with Model 3.
Nov 14, 2018
Volkswagen announces 2 new factories to go electric, partners with SK Innovation for battery cells
Posted by Genevieve O’Hagan in categories: sustainability, transportation
Today, Volkswagen is announcing that it is converting two more factories to electric vehicle production and it is partnering with SK Innovation for battery cells.
Earlier this year, VW announced that its Zwickau factory will be the first to go all-electric.
The German automaker plans to produce 1,500 electric cars per day at the plant.
Nov 11, 2018
How Singles’ Day has helped Alibaba ascend on an AI-powered cloud in China
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The technology and innovation that Alibaba has developed to serve the needs that arise from Singles’ Day have allowed Alibaba to expand into a variety of services, including Alibaba Cloud, logistics, and artificial intelligence.
Within minutes of the clock striking midnight on November 11 this year, consumers across China will be racking up billions in purchases on Alibaba’s e-commerce marketplaces. Alibaba engineers and employees watching the transaction numbers on big screens will whoop as the figure instantly crosses the hundred million yuan mark, then zooms into the billions.
As the orders start to roll in, the company’s proprietary cloud computing platform Alibaba Cloud will, at its peak, process hundreds of thousands in transactions and payments per second. Robots in the automated warehouses of Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao will begin sorting and packing the orders that come in, readying them for the battalion of trucks, scooters and millions of deliverymen that will send an estimated 1 billion packages to their rightful owners within days of November 11.
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Nov 10, 2018
Elon Musk authorizes Tesla employees to provide assistance for the California wildfires and ‘not worry about payment’
Posted by Genevieve O’Hagan in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
California, Tesla’s home state, is currently on fire as the current wildfire season is proving to be particularly devastating.
CEO Elon Musk has authorized Tesla employees to provide assistance for the wildfires and not worry about payment.
Nov 10, 2018
NASA’s Restored Mission Control Consoles Touch Down in Houston
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: transportation
Nov 7, 2018
With this New Superhighway you can Travel with Car from USA to Europe
Posted by Mary Jain in category: transportation
A road stretching to more than 80% of the world – russia proposes a superhighway that will take you from europe to the united states!
According to a report in The Siberian Times, Russian Railways president has proposed a plan for a massive trans-Siberian highway.
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Nov 5, 2018
Scientists Are About to Redefine the Kilogram
Posted by Genevieve O’Hagan in categories: engineering, particle physics, transportation
The kilogram is one of the most important and widely used units of measure in the world — unless you live in the US. For everyone else, having an accurate reading on what a kilogram is can be vitally important in fields like manufacturing, engineering, and transportation. Of course, a kilogram is 1,000 grams or 2.2 pounds if you want to get imperial. That doesn’t help you define a kilogram, though. The kilogram is currently controlled by a metal slug in a French vault, but its days of importance are numbered. Scientists are preparing to re define the kilogram using science.
It’s actually harder than you’d expect to know when a measurement matches the intended standard, even when it’s one of the well–define d Systéme International (SI) units. For example, the meter was originally define d in 1793 as one ten-millionth the distance from the equator to the north pole. That value was wrong, but the meter has since been re define d in more exact terms like krypton-86 wavelength emissions and most recently the speed of light in a vacuum. The second was previously define d as a tiny fraction of how long it takes the Earth to orbit the sun. Now, it’s pegged to the amount of time it takes a cesium-133 atom to oscillate 9,192,631,770 times. Again, this is immutable and extremely precise.
That brings us to the kilogram, which is a measurement of mass. Weight is different and changes based on gravity, but a kilogram is always a kilogram because it comes from measurements of density and volume. The definition of the kilogram is tied to the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK, see above), a small cylinder of platinum and iridium kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. Scientists have created dozens of copies of the IPK so individual nations can standardize their measurements, but that’s a dangerous way to go about it. If anything happened to the IPK, we wouldn’t have a standard kilogram anymore.
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