The first of three fast-charging stations for all-electric vehicles traveling in the corridor between Alberta’s two largest cities was announced in Calgary on Tuesday. The province lags behinds Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia in electric car use — with...
A major automotive manufacturing company, Continental AG, released its vision of “the mobility of the future,” which includes fleets of driverless electric vehicles. Although its 19th century roots are in rubber manufacturing, and its tires remain a staple...
Battery-powered cars will make up about half of the global automotive market by 2030, as environmental regulations, falling prices and the deployment of driverless taxis fuel demand, according to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group. “The timing of the market’s...
When I moved into the 4th floor of Project One a couple of pods down from Apples Daycare with a musician friend in the late summer of 1973, I had no idea that Project One had any connection to Buckminster Fuller [1] though the story goes Project One was the brainchild...
After nearly a century of building vehicles powered by fossil fuels, General Motors — one of the world’s largest automakers — announced Monday that the end of GM producing internal combustion engines is fast approaching. The acceleration to an all-electric future will...
A group of architects and engineers in Ottawa are building a tiny, totally self-sufficient house that people might actually want to live in. In a small alcove at the rear of the Architecture Building at Carleton University in Ottawa, the future of zero-energy housing...
