159 ARTICLES
“The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles” (Oren Harari, business professor at the University of San Francisco)
18 Mar 2023, 16:34 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Did you know that there are excavators out there that rely on telescopic and tilting booms instead of conventional knuckle booms? The American manufacturer Gradall Industries is making this kind of weird machinery. And now it partnered with Volvo P...
18 Mar 2023, 10:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Every carmaker is praised by the crowds when a new concept car emerges. But what about construction vehicle manufacturers? Are they capable to surprise us the same way? Bobcat hopes so. This news should be about the world’s first all-elect...
17 Mar 2023, 10:34 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The race for electric passenger cars with bigger batteries and longer ranges is fierce. In the shadows, the same competition is emerging in the e-bike world. Well, now, is a more-than-200-mile-range e-bike an overkill? Does it really make sense? ...
17 Mar 2023, 07:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / There’s no secret that Lexus NX is Toyota RAV4’s posh sibling. And now the prices make it clear that NX is playing in the compact luxury league. Achtung! This is the Germans’ playground, where the Audi Q5, BMW X3, or Mercedes-Benz...
12 Mar 2023, 17:28 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Out of nowhere, this report from Kayrros – a company that I have never heard of, so it’s something veeeery suspicious about it – is warning us against so-called “super-emitting methane leaks.” If it’s methane, th...
12 Mar 2023, 13:52 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Elon’s ‘secret master plan’ hit two important milestones in 2022. Firstly, battery-electric vehicles sold in the U.S. passed the critical 5% of the overall new car market. This is half of the theoretical critical mass needed for a...
11 Mar 2023, 17:37 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / The new generation GLC Coupe will use a well-known recipe: chop the compact GLC SUV and make it look more like a high-ground four-door-coupe-ish. The people will love it because it's a hot trend. It doesn't matter that it will be less roo...
11 Mar 2023, 17:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Blaming the U.S. for luring many battery manufacturers from Europe is more like a lousy excuse. Almost a year after the Inflation Reduction Act came into effect in the United States, the EU Commission will respond with the new Net Zero Industrial A...
10 Mar 2023, 16:24 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In December 2022, SAE International published the first standardization guidelines for wireless power transfer up to 500 kW power, aimed at heavy-duty vehicles. A few months later, Chalmers University in Sweden has already developed a high-power in...
10 Mar 2023, 09:52 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Just like in the story with the boy and the wolf, the ‘Tesla-killer’ is no longer an exciting collocation. But in China, it looks like Tesla Model 3 is finally getting some shivers in the spine. That’s because Toyota bZ3, co-devel...
5 Mar 2023, 20:17 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Big changes face big opposition. And ditching fossil fuels is surely going to change our societybig time. In theory, it’s a change for the better. But in the process, some interest groups are poised to set the world on fire if their privilege...
5 Mar 2023, 16:49 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / As you know, hydrogen is touted by Big Oil as the zero-emissions technology we should bet on in the long run. Now, China brags it’s taking the lead in terms of behemoth renewable H2 projects. However, projections show that China won’t j...
5 Mar 2023, 09:31 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Building towers for wind turbines 10 times faster and up to twice as tall as today’s conventional technology is something for prime-time news. The new technology can help speed up the deployment of new wind farm projects, on- and offshore. Th...
4 Mar 2023, 10:26 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Elon Musk should be proud of Twitter because it’s the first social media to release videos featuring a sort of drag race between the most weird-looking Teslas: the Cybertruck electric pickup truck and the Semi electric freight tractor. Tw...
3 Mar 2023, 17:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / J.D. Power is probably the first source that comes to mind for good advice when buying a new or used car. There’s nothing like clients’ opinions and overall satisfaction with their cars. Winning top spots is also free publicity for carm...
3 Mar 2023, 12:22 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / Major carmakers are advancing self-driving technology at a fast pace. Still, many people are reluctant to vehicles that drive by themselves. We’ll see if these new driverless vehicles will spark a fierce debate on the “robots are steali...
26 Feb 2023, 17:37 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / I’m not a smoker. I never was and I’ll never be. However, I was a petrolhead. I still have a little devilish petrolhead hidden in my brain. But the engineer in me understood perfectly the big issues of burning fossil fuels in internal c...
26 Feb 2023, 14:14 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / In the first two parts of this series, we briefly looked at battery-swapping technology and conductive charging using pantographs or electric rails. They both have pros and cons, but in the near future, the disadvantages seem to weigh more. The wir...
25 Feb 2023, 19:38 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / 2023 will see the 101st running of the legendary Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) held just outside Colorado Springs. Blue Oval’s vehicles have been competing in America’s Mountain race for over 100 years, so Ford Performance...
25 Feb 2023, 17:12 UTC · By: Oraan Marc / We started the discussion in the previous part based on EVs’ main drawbacks for most car owners. It’s their short ranges and long charging times compared to internal combustion engine cars. Let’s take a look at the pro and cons of...