Category: Electric Vehicles / Transportation
Faraday Future, the cutting-edge EV developer, announced on March 1 it has earned its first U.S. Patent, No. 9,241,428-B1, for a power inverter the company calls the “FF Echelon Inverter.” An inverter is an electronic device that changes direct current to alternating current and is an integral component in battery-powered vehicles. In […]
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Cheniere Energy expects the first-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) export from the lower 48 U.S. states will depart the company’s Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana today. The ship is headed to Petrobas, in Brazil. Cheniere has six LNG vessels under contract, and will use them to continue exporting gas in the
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China has announced that, in furtherance of upgrading its auto industry, curbing pollution, and reducing reliance on imported oil, it will rely on “mass entrepreneurship and innovation to make key technological breakthroughs” in electric vehicles (EVs) and related technologies. After falling short of its 2015 goals for EV adoption, the central
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The Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research report that in 2015, for the first time ever, solar beat out natural gas electricity generating capacity additions, with solar supplying 29.5 percent (equaling 7,286 MW) of all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. The residential solar market grew 66 percent
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Following an announcement in January that Aston Martin would incorporate into its luxury four-door Rapide S sports car the “Internet of the Vehicle” (IOV) system from technology innovator LeEco, the two companies yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a production version of the Aston Martin RapidE electric vehicle concept.
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