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Ten Tesla Owners Walked Into a Beijing Court This Week to Get Their Money Back. The Week Before, Tesla Had Quietly Handed Them the One Piece of Evidence They Needed
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (449+ words) Ten Tesla owners just had their day in court over in Beijing, seeking $583, 000 in damages in a consumer fraud lawsuit against Tesla's Full Self-Driving system. Elon Musk promised autonomous driving over 10 years ago, but finally admitted earlier this year that…...
Hyundai Just Hired 25, 000 Workers for Its US Car Factories Who Run 24 Hours a Day, Never Take a Break, and Aren't Human. The First of Them Clock In in 2028
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (496+ words) The US auto industry just took another large step towards automation with Hyundai importing 25, 000 humanoid robots to work in its factories. The bots in question are built by Boston Dynamics, a company you may recognize for building "Spot" a robot…...
Gas Just Hit Its Highest Price in Four Years. The Cheapest Way to Burn Less of It Isn't a Fuel Additive or New Tires " It's a Law of Physics Hiding Under Your Right Foot
12+ hour, 23+ min ago (399+ words) Every car has a window where the engine, the gearing, and the air all line up in your favor. For most gas cars that's somewhere between 50 and 55 mph, though the exact number shifts around by vehicle. Drop below it and…...
A Billionaire Ordered a 114-Meter Superyacht Built Entirely Around Hydrogen Fuel Cells. It Just Set Sail on Diesel, Because Even at Nine Figures the Fuel Cells Still Aren't Ready to Install
10+ hour, 23+ min ago (186+ words) CEO Peter L'rssen called Nausica" one of the yachts that "leave an indelible mark on our history." Coming from a 150-year-old shipbuilder with hundreds of hulls behind it, that's not throwaway PR " but the mark, for now, is the design…...
Twenty-Five Years Ago an MIT Professor Used Hardware-Store Glass-Etching Cream to Frost His Bathroom Windows. The Same Chemical Just Halved the Cost of Getting Lithium From Rock " the Reason China Controls Refining
14+ hour, 47+ min ago (556+ words) The MIT spinout commercializing it is called Rock Zero, and it has already designed a pilot plant. The team also came to spodumene sideways. That same etching-cream chemistry is useful for making the highly reactive silica that goes into low-carbon…...
Hydrogen Cars Didn't Stall Because of the Engine " They Stalled Because Moving the Fuel Is Brutally Expensive. Stanford and Seoul National Just Cut That Cost's Platinum by 90%
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (130+ words) Their result, published in Science on May 29, is a platinum catalyst that releases hydrogen from a liquid carrier using one-tenth the platinum of today's commercial versions " while lasting longer and producing more hydrogen, not less. And the reason it works…...
For Decades the Royal Air Force Ran Its Bases on Diesel Generators. It Just Signed a Contract to Replace Them With Transportable Hydrogen Microgrids That Charge Electric Cars Anywhere, Off the Grid
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (442+ words) Military bases needing reliable power is hardly a new concern. Diesel generators have been the default backstop on RAF runways and Army garrisons for decades, humming away whenever the grid hiccups or a deployment sets up shop somewhere with no…...
Tesla Says Its Full Self-Driving Is Ten Times Safer Than a Human Driver. The People Who Train It Just Admitted They Wouldn't Get in a Robotaxi 'Even If You Paid Me"
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (145+ words) Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally admitted that Full Self-Driving mode is not anywhere near what he claimed it was capable of, but that hasn't stopped him or the automaker from making dangerous claims about FSD's abilities and safety. It's concerning…...
A Chinese Lab Just Claimed a Lithium-Metal Battery With Double the Energy Density and a 3-Minute Charge. If the Numbers Hold, the Lithium-Ion Era Is Over
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (227+ words) For context on where the industry is heading commercially, Interesting Engineering notes that multiple developers in China aim to bring commercial solid-state systems to market at roughly 400-500 Wh/kg sometime in 2026 or 2027. So the lab number lines up with where…...
Germany Is Pulling Its Hydrogen Trains. Japan Never Scaled Its Own. India Just Built the World's Longest One " Five Times the Length of the German Original " From Scratch
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (290+ words) The pilot route is short. The hardware is not. And the supporting infrastructure, including a 3, 000 kg green hydrogen plant at Jind, is being built around it rather than borrowed from anyone else. That last part is the bit worth paying…...