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Sponsored by TTI. Even without taking the transition from internal combustion engines to battery electric vehicles into account, the electrical power requirements of today’s vehicles have become daunting. Every device within a vehicle—from the air conditioner and seat heaters to the lighting and infotainment systems — requires power, and theContinue Reading

How to watch the NVIDIA CES 2026 presentation live

CFOTO via Getty Images During CES 2025, we watched NVIDIA tout its leading position in the artificial intelligence arena for the bulk of the presentation. But it did reveal some new hardware, including its RTX 5000-series GPUs and Project Digits desktop supercomputer (later redubbed Spark). This year…Continue Reading

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Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker SAIC Commercial Vehicle have formed a strategic partnership focused on joint technology research and development, commercial EV ecosystem building and global expansion. The collaboration will include jointly building an integrated smart battery swapping ecosystem and green transportation capacity system encompassing “vehicle, battery, station andContinue Reading

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Sponsored by Lumafield. EV-battery engineers wrestle with defects they can’t see until a pack fails. The Engineer’s Guide to Battery Defects lays out how industrial CT surfaces those threats in minutes. As the paper states, “Industrial CT scanning allows battery engineers to visualize and analyze specific issues related to anodesContinue Reading

Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft review

Space Verdict This Lego Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is a superb set for adult fans of this memorable but sadly now-retired space vessel. It’s a fun build, which can easily be shared, and once built it looks suitably impressive, displayed in any number of ways. I just wish it didn’t have as many stickers. ProsContinue Reading

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United Airlines has ferried another Boeing 777-200 widebody aircraft to Victorville. According to media reports and flight-tracking data, the aircraft is being stored rather than retired. The 25-year-old Boeing 777-200, registered as N212UA, operated a ferry flight from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Southern California Logistics Airport (VCV) inContinue Reading

China to enforce new EV energy consumption standard in 2026, capping 2-ton models at 15.1 kWh/100 km

China’s first mandatory national standard setting limits on energy consumption for electric vehicles will come into force on January 1, 2026, marking a major step toward improving efficiency in the country’s rapidly expanding EV market. The standard, Limits of Energy Consumption for Electric Vehicles – Part 1: Passenger Cars (GB 36980.1—2025…Continue Reading