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The question that Impossible Aerospace wanted to answer was: “What happens if you take the electric vehicle revolution and apply it to other industries?” That’s according to CEO Spencer Gore, who is taking his company and unveiling a new battery-powered quadcopter drone in Las Vegas today. The reason Gore and his team approach flying drones […]

A Saturday drive in an electric vehicle at Danville’s Community Market yielded a smooth and quiet but peppy ride with surprisingly powerful performance. The Nissan Leaf was so silent it was hard to tell when the car started and nothing but the wind could be heard as it traveled down Goodyear Boulevard. Held by Danville […]

Clean and sustainable! These are the two words which will define mobility in the near future. Most automotive manufacturers and countries too have begun putting in efforts in the right earnest towards mobility which is electric/makes use of alternative fuel. The situation in India is a little different, though. While many countries have a proper […]

Mercedes-Benz is going “all in” on electric cars says Dieter Zetshe, CEO of Mercedes’ parent-company Daimler, according to Bloomberg. The details: Production on the first car in a new series of battery-powered vehicles, called the Mercedes EQC, starts next year. Mercedes plans to invest $12 billion in its move towards electric vehicles. The vehicles will […]

China sustained a surge in aluminum shipments to world markets in August as buyers sought supplies from the largest producer to replace metal from United Co. Rusal, which has been hit by U.S. sanctions. Exports of unwrought aluminum and products reached 517,000 metric tons, almost the same as the 520,000 tons in July, which was […]

Graphene has a lot of potential for many industries, and this is due to its vast amount of properties that make it an excellent material for so many different applications. One area where graphene shows a significant amount of promise, and has been extensively studied in the academic world, is its use within various types […]

To overcome storage capacity and recharge-time limitations of conventional batteries, a Cornell team developed a self-assembling battery with twisted “ribbons.” Users of rechargeable batteries have two ongoing complaints: They don’t provide enough capacity (run time), and they take too long to recharge. A research team at Cornell University hopes to fix that with an approach […]

Researchers from Brown University have discovered a method to guide nanoscale self-assembly as well as analyze DNA and other biomolecules. The researchers found that by slightly laterally compressing single atom thick layers of graphene, sharp crinkles are formed in the material and they carry an electrical charge. The results come after a study published ‘Proceedings […]

Researchers from Virginia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a new way to 3D print with graphene. Graphene has previously been used in extrusion-based processes to print single sheets and basic structures at a resolution of around 100 microns, but this latest research shows it is also possible to use a stereolithography-based technique […]

Can industries with big environmental footprints, like mining, operate sustainably? That’s the question at the heart of a host of new mineral and ore discoveries that – if extracted, applied, consumed and recycled wisely – can lead to sustainability achievements and allow us to set even loftier environmental goals. Take lithium, or the “white metal.” […]