by admin | Nov 10, 2024 | Africa, electric vehicles, EVs, Motoring News, News, South Africa, The Conversation
In sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions cause poor health, developmental stunting, and even death. Vehicle emissions also contribute to global warming. Electric vehicles could help solve these...
by admin | Nov 3, 2024 | EVs, Mining, News, sustainability, The Conversation
If you visit a commercial mining operation anywhere in the world today, some sights and sounds – workers descending in elevators to underground shafts, the roar of truck engines – will be much the same as they have been for decades. But, like many other industries,...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | driverless cars, electric cars, EVs, Motoring News, News, robovehicles, Tesla, The Conversation
Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety and energy consumption, my colleagues and I found. Robot vehicles are no longer a sci-fi concept: Cities around...
by admin | Feb 13, 2024 | Batteries, EVs, Motoring News, News, Nissan, Other Tech News, The Conversation
In a newly published study, we describe our design for a self-extinguishing rechargeable battery. It replaces the most commonly used electrolyte, which is highly combustible – a medium composed of a lithium salt and an organic solvent – with materials found in a...
by admin | Jan 28, 2024 | EVs, Hilux, hybrid cars, Motoring News, News, SOMI 2024, Toyota
Today, at its seventh annual State of the Motor Industry event, Toyota South Africa Motors announced its strategy for the next few years. But not before enthusiastically patting itself on the back for the progress it made last year, despite the challenges it faced –...
by admin | Nov 8, 2023 | App News, e-bikes, EVs, Motoring News, News, Uber, Uber One
Transportation app Uber has marked its ten-year anniversary in South Africa by launching Uber Package. The service intends to offer same-day deliveries in the country using electrified bikes. Two of them, in fact. There won’t just be two bikes, obviously. You won’t...
