The Biden Administration is very clear in what it desires to achieve with its environmental policy: a complete transformation of the $21 trillion U.S. economy away from fossil fuels. The Administration is undertaking multiple actions to place the United States on what it calls an “irreversible path” to achieve a 50-52 percent reduction in greenhouse… Continue reading The EV Transition Explained: Local Policies Shape Global Competition
Author: IEEE_Spectrum
Amazon Shows Off Lofty Plans for Delivery by Drone
The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers. Every month, IEEE Spectrum selects the most stunning technology images recently captured by photographers around the world. We choose images that reflect an important advance, or a trend, or that are just mesmerizing to look at. We feature all images on our site, and one… Continue reading Amazon Shows Off Lofty Plans for Delivery by Drone
3 Ways to Help NASA’s All-Electric Aircraft Take Off
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The race for all-electric planes is underway, and some early designs are making headlines. This past September, a prototype of the Eviation Alice completed an 8-minute maiden flight, and more models, such as Heart Aerospace’s ES-30, are anticipated to… Continue reading 3 Ways to Help NASA’s All-Electric Aircraft Take Off
Where Power Meets the Road
Rohde & Schwarz, the only supplier of fast diode sensors for power measurements up to 67 GHz, is increasing the maximum measurable frequency of diode power sensors to 90 GHz, higher than any other diode sensor currently available. The diode technology enables extremely fast and accurate power measurements with the highest sensitivity from a compact… Continue reading Where Power Meets the Road
The EV Transition Explained: Converting Gasoline Superusers
“We’re never going back,” declare Jonathon and Cory Drayer of Fredericksburg, Va. Both recently traded their respective SUVs for electric vehicles (EVs), and happily swore off every buying another internal combustion engine (ICE) powered vehicle. Jonathon and Cory are among the vanguard of a much hoped-for change: the EV-only family. Their switch to EVs was… Continue reading The EV Transition Explained: Converting Gasoline Superusers
The EV Transition Explained: Charger Infrastructure
The ability to conveniently charge an EV away from home is a top concern for many EV owners. A 2022 survey of EV owners by Forbes indicates that 62 percent of respondents are so anxious about their EV range that travel plans have been affected. While “range anxiety” may be overblown, the need for an… Continue reading The EV Transition Explained: Charger Infrastructure
Chinese Joint Venture Will Begin Mass-Producing an Autonomous Electric Car
In October, a startup called Jidu Automotive, backed by Chinese AI giant Baidu and Chinese carmaker Geely, officially released an autonomous electric car, the Robo-01 Lunar Edition. In 2023, the car will go on sale. At roughly US $55,000, the Robo-01 Lunar Edition is a limited edition, cobranded with China’s Lunar Exploration Project. It has… Continue reading Chinese Joint Venture Will Begin Mass-Producing an Autonomous Electric Car
The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?
Why not? EVs lack tailpipe emissions, sure, but producing, operating, and disposing of these vehicles creates greenhouse-gas emissions and other environmental burdens. Driving an EV pushes these problems upstream, to the factory where the vehicle is made and beyond, as well as to the power plant where the electricity is generated. The entire life cycle… Continue reading The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?
The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges
The fundamental technology that these companies rely on is not new: Electroencephalography (EEG) has been around for about a century, and it’s commonly used today in both medicine and neuroscience research. For those applications, the subject may have up to 256 electrodes attached to their scalp with conductive gel to record electrical signals from neurons… Continue reading The EV Transition Explained: Battery Challenges
Industrial Functional Safety Training from UL Solutions
As Verne understood, the U.S. Civil War (during which 60,000 amputations were performed) inaugurated the modern prosthetics era in the United States, thanks to federal funding and a wave of design patents filed by entrepreneurial prosthetists. The two World Wars solidified the for-profit prosthetics industry in both the United States and Western Europe, and the… Continue reading Industrial Functional Safety Training from UL Solutions