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American eVTOL pioneer Joby Aviation is accelerating its path to FAA type certification, today unveiling a second pre-production prototype that’s already approved to join the company’s flight test program. It’ll take its first flights later this month…. Continue reading Joby accelerates certification effort with second pre-production eVTOL
American eVTOL pioneer Joby Aviation is accelerating its path to FAA type certification, today unveiling a second pre-production prototype that’s already approved to join the company’s flight test program. It’ll take its first flights later this month…. Continue reading Joby accelerates certification effort with second pre-production eVTOL
San Francisco startup Petra says its new contactless thermal drilling robot can make steady progress through the hardest rock on Earth – stuff that would normally destroy drilling equipment – so quickly and cheaply that it could make a lot of undergrou… Continue reading Watch as Petra’s remarkable thermal bore cuts through undrillable rock
San Francisco startup Petra says its new contactless thermal drilling robot can make steady progress through the hardest rock on Earth – stuff that would normally destroy drilling equipment – so quickly and cheaply that it could make a lot of undergrou… Continue reading Watch as Petra’s remarkable thermal bore cuts through undrillable rock
Horizon Aeronautics is prototyping an eVTOL hovercycle concept that uses a complex and interesting split-swashplate “Blainjett” variable pitch rotor system that only exposes half of each fan. Very odd, but Horizon says it’s highly efficient.Continue Re… Continue reading Horizon’s eVTOL hoverbike debuts fascinating hemispheric rotors
BMW has one-upped itself, rolling out one of the most jaw-dropping car exterior treatments ever. After unveiling the blackest car in the universe back in 2019, the company has just presented an iX Flow concept with color-changing E Ink panels.Continue … Continue reading BMW wraps a concept car in stunning color-changing E Ink
BMW has one-upped itself, rolling out one of the most jaw-dropping car exterior treatments ever. After unveiling the blackest car in the universe back in 2019, the company has just presented an iX Flow concept with color-changing E Ink panels.Continue … Continue reading BMW wraps a concept car in stunning color-changing E Ink
REE’s hyper-modular EV chassis looks like little more than a flat-bed trailer, but it’s the entire guts of an electric vehicle in a single, radically modular package. It stores a surprising amount of energy in a super-thin skateboard, and squeezes the … Continue reading REE starts testing a radically modular EV chassis for trucks and buses
Good news for fusion energy progress and a new world record for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), or “artifical sun,” maintains 70 million degrees Celsius (126 million °F) for 1,056 seconds.Co… Continue reading Chinese tokamak keeps plasma 2.6 times as hot as the Sun for 17 minutes
Miami custom shop Nmoto has a bit of a thing for the art deco era, and it’s now released a (very expensive) carbon bodykit that can transform a current-model BMW C 400 X scooter into a bulbous retro ride inspired by a little-known 1936 custom bike.Cont… Continue reading Nmoto takes BMW scooters back to the Golden Age with art deco bodykits