Today, you’d be hard pressed to find an major automaker that’s still in denial about electrification. Even vocal skeptics like Volkswagen and Mazda have come around to the idea that tomorrow’s cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs will run on electricity, not gasoline or diesel.
U.S. biofuels regulations, which mandate mixing corn-based ethanol into gasoline, have lately drawn together a diverse cast of political opponents.
The vehicle will be aimed at buyers in North America, Europe, and China and will come in passenger and cargo van models. VW also says the bus will be a strong part of its strategy for autonomous transportation.
The chokepoint, near where Sunday’s collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker occurred, is one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
Today’s solar eclipse is expected to have an important impact on productivity and solar energy generation, but all the travel to optimize the viewing experience also has another less obvious impact.
The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning.
While automakers would love to rip up some regulations, they’re not tearing up long-term plans for higher-mileage cars
Many of us share some dim apprehension that the world is flying out of control, that the center cannot hold.
A tanker carrying a cargo of about 1 million barrels of Venezuelan heavy crude has been stranded for more than a month off the coast of Louisiana for lack of a bank letter of credit to discharge, three sources have told Reuters.
Zelectric Motors, the company that electrifies old air-cooled Volkswagens, was taking its lightning bugs out to Pebble Beach when they happened to see this other electron-powered VW: the I.D. Buzz neo-Type 2 concept.
