Dyson pulls the plug on electric cars. The billionaire businessman had hoped to harness his group’s expertise in battery systems, aerodynamics and high-tech manufacturing to break into a fiercely competitive industry. Weekly meetings of the auto team run by former BMW and Nissan executive Roland Krueger, who joined Dyson in January 2019, reviewed the outlook…
John Goodenough of the University of Texas in Austin, who is still active in research to lead the development of rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries that power everything mobile phones to laptops and even electric vehicles, at the age of 97. John Goodenough was the oldest laureate in any discipline in the 118-year history of Nobel Prizes,…
A motorist has been filmed fast asleep at the wheel of his “self-drive” Tesla on a busy highway Interstate 5 near San Diego in California. The car driver who was with his wife and children said “we were going about 35 or 40 miles per hour when we saw him. The traffic had just started…
Nearly 3 million people in UK uses Vaping and e-cigarettes, which is inhailing a mix of nicotine and heated oil which is often seen as an alternative to smoking which can help you quite but its safety is still very much in the dark. In the US however, the potential risks are in the…
Audemars Piguet’s new presence in London’s Bond Street with brass plague and a small flag is tapping into the value of discretion that is inherent in the concept of luxury, like a private member’s club than conventional watch shop. Wealthy customers invited to the venue for dinner and drinks will find plasma screens and deep…
Porsche which took 10 per cent stake in Rimac Automobil, the Coratian electric car group has raised its holdings to 15.5 per cent stake to push into battery technology. Rimac builds its own cars but also supplies battery and hybrid technology to high-performance car makers across the industry. The German brand plans to spend €6bn…
Singapore has unleashed a self-driving robot bus and tentatively stated to test a fleet of shuttles inits coastal district of Sentosa this week. Tan Nai Kwan, chief robotics engineer at ST Engineering systems said safety was paramount duromg the testing phase and the company is taking no chances. On the first day of the trial …
Lithium Ion batteries were developed in 1980 at Oxford University but were first commercialised by Japan’s Sony in 1991 for use in its camcorders. Anil Srivastave CEO of Swiss Battery make Leclanche, said “UK needs to focus on how to commercialise innovations made in its universities and then scale them up quickly as their a…
A german driver set fire to her car after filling it up with petrol instead of diesel, then tryingto suck it out with a vaccum cleaner at a garage in Eschborn, Germany. The woman, 55, joined a hose to the vac, which burst into flames as it filled with petrol causing £27, 800 of damage.