Electric cars, batteries, charging and connected mobility.
Donut Lab, the Finnish company behind the CES-January solid-state battery billed as first for production vehicles, published a VTT report on 21 October on a −30 °C test. The headline: 93% energy retention. The figure is real; the document — confidential per VTT, released by Donut Lab — is complete, signed and legible. Page 10: … Read more
Waymo is heading north. The Alphabet-owned autonomous driving unit confirmed on 16 October that its vehicles will start appearing on the streets of Toronto in the coming days — but not as robotaxis. The first cars will be driven manually, sweeping the city to build high-definition maps of its road network, as the company works … Read more
Tesla’s driverless taxi program is drawing fresh federal scrutiny: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is evaluating a defect petition alleging that its robotaxis exceed posted speed limits in active school zones, an early-stage review that could complicate the company’s expansion plans in the United States. Roughly 1,000 vehicles in scope: The review covers model-year … Read more
The Kikou Maru is not a laboratory prototype. It is a working vessel of 4,800 deadweight tonnes and a 105-metre hull, and it has just completed a 20-nautical-mile crossing of Osaka Bay running exclusively on a hybrid propulsion chain built around hydrogen fuel cells, electric motors and lithium batteries. Operator Uyeno TransTec and the project’s … Read more
Honda has confirmed it will build a 300-metre stretch of Japanese expressway embedded with dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) hardware capable of feeding up to 150 kW into heavy commercial vehicles while they are moving. The demonstration project, developed with construction specialists Taisei and Taisei Rotec, is set to begin in the Japanese fiscal year … Read more
Honda R&D, together with construction group Taisei Corporation and its road-building subsidiary Taisei Rotec, is taking wireless EV charging out of the lab and onto public asphalt. The partners plan to demonstrate dynamic wireless power transfer (DWPT) on a 300-metre stretch of the Tateyama Expressway in Chiba Prefecture, outside Tokyo, from fiscal 2027. The system … Read more