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Bollinger Motors announces plans to produce and sell the all-electric B2 Chassis Cab. The Bollinger B2CC is the worldโs first and only Class 3 all-electric chassis-cab tr...
TRL, the UKโs Transport Research Laboratory, has recently authored a report โ commissioned by IAM Roadsmart, FIA Road Safety and Rees Jeffreys Road Fund โ into the impact...
Volvo Construction Equipmentโs (Volvo CE) Load Assist is the umbrella term for a series of machine control applications that are designed specifically for Volvo CE wheel...
Plans for a UK-built, 3,000-strong hydrogen bus fleet across the country, have been revealed by JCB heir Jo Bamford in a move he hopes can lead the nationsโ economic reco...
i.safe MOBILE GmbH, one of the world’s leading developers of mobile communication devices in the hazardous zone 1/21, today presents the IS930.1. The IS930.1 combin...
Last June, researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released a startling report estimating that the amount of power required for training and searching a...
has announced the release of its Fleet 2020 report, examining the pressure to accelerate innovation in the mobility sector to respond to the climate crisis. The report ou...
A coalition of leading researchers and scientists have released the findings of a year-long study into the impacts of sourcing metals to produce battery cathodes and wiri...
recent survey undertaken by Motorbike insurer Bikesure of 1,000 commuters in London set out to find how the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) had impacted them, in reflectio...
Sharing the Green Deal vision of sustainable transport and a carbon neutral Europe by 2050, two leading companies in the commercial vehicle industry, Daimler Truck AG and...
Honda Motor Europe is expanding its battery recycling partnership with SNAM (Sociรฉtรฉ Nouvelle dโAffinage des Mรฉtaux) to advance the sustainable usability of its end-of-li...
Dusty Alexander, CEO & President of Global Shop Solutions ERP/MRP Software takes a look at the current situation: “Weโre in a different kind of war against the...
The average wind turbine generatesย 6 million kilowatts of energyย in a year. Thatโs enough to power 1,500 households. Entrepreneurs Kerem Deveci and Sarp Papatya have inte...
Deep in the heart of the Bentley factory in Crewe is a large, airy and air-conditioned workshop that visitors, even out of a government lockdown, will never see. ย Itโs pa...
recent announcement that the British Government will push forward with HS2 has led to renewed calls for an improved connectivity on the railways. Prime Minister Boris Joh...
the next four years, over 70% of all cars sold worldwide will possess internet connectivity. The connected car revolution shows no sign of stopping as self-driving cars l...
Ferrying visitors from tram stop to exhibition center, supplementing public transport routes, moving containers full of packages in a logistics center: all these are poss...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a โฌ480 million loan agreement with LG Chem Wroclaw Energy, the Polish subsidiary of the LG Chem Group that was established t...
Weโre used to chatting with computers nowadays. We talk to Siri and Alexa, for example, in our homes and our cars. But for many companies, services of this kind arenโt an...
Specialist shelter provider Zappshelter have come up with an innovative product to assist the NHS, emergency services, essential services and anyone faced with needing to...
Developing alternative powertrain technologies is a top priority for the BMW Group. The premium carmaker offers first virtual insights into the powertrain system for the...
Hyundai Motor Groupโs latest exoskeleton wearable robot, Vest Exoskeleton (VEX), has won the Product Design category (Innovative Product field) at the Red Dot Design Awar...
Motorcycle theft numbers on the rise: Here is what you should do Did you know that over one single day, 130 motorcycles will be stolen in the UK, the same number in the U...
Just three years after it was built, Normandyโs 0.6 mile solar-powered road was deemed a total failure. Consisting of 30,000 square feet of solar panels, the solar road w...
Worrying results from a new study released today show that the latest in-vehicle infotainment systems, designed to improve road safety, are failing and impair reactions t...
Actemium e-mobility consultant Giles Benbow explains how we can support the EV revolution through a diverse and extensive charging infrastructure. The UK is the worldโs f...
Caterpillar announces the release of Cat Command for Compaction, an operator-assisted technology that automates the soil compaction process and helps contractors achieve...
Although the industry is still years away from delivering driverless vehicles on public roads en masse, there are significant developments being made on vehicle connectiv...
Tackling common road safety issues, and delivering an ongoing sales opportunity, the Beissbarth EasyTread automated tyre wear measurement system from Everard allows works...
Trimble has announced Trimbleยฎ Earthworks Grade Control Platform version 2.0 with groundbreaking new features for all machine types, along with the release of the Trimble...
Colas has launched the Exopush in its UK business. Exopush is an exoskeleton designed to give power assistance to operatives working on levelling with a rake. Amongst eme...
Generalย Motors is gathering hundreds of employees, dealers, investors, analysts, media and policymakers to share details of its strategy to grow the companyโs electric ve...
MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate โbreadboardsโ โ flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping โ directly onto physical products. The aim is to p...
Five, the UK self-driving company, has raised $41M in a Series B round of equity funding. New investors are Trustbridge Partners, Direct Line Group and Sistema VC. Existi...
Parking Sense, the creator of parking solutions reshaping the industry, today announced the company has merged with ParkHelp, and the combined company will soon rebrand a...
The worldโs most power dense permanent magnet electric motor is under development in the UK. Expert electrification company, Equipmake, has teamed up with leading additiv...
Over the last century, scientists have developed methods to map the structures within the Earthโs crust, in order to identify resources such as oil reserves, geothermal s...
Boston Dynamics, a world leader in mobile manipulation robots, and OTTO Motors, leader in industrial autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), today unveiled a demo of the future...
Energy Systems Catapult is launching an innovator challenge call in collaboration with Places for People, Geovation and Pineapple Partners, inviting SMEs developing produ...
ConTech, or technology created specifically for the construction industry, is a burgeoning sector that has the potential to benefit every stage of the building process. A...
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