GM Dealers Want Hybrids For Customers Who Aren’t Ready For EVs

GM Dealers Want Hybrids For Customers Who Aren’t Ready For EVs

GM is all in on electric vehicles. Through 2025, the company plans to spend some $35 billion on bringing more EVs to market. While that plan has had a bit of a rough start, GM’s dealers are thinking about a segment GM has essentially abandoned: hybrids. New York Joins California, Banning Non-Electric Vehicles After 2035 … Read more

World’s largest cruise ship sets sail from Miami

World’s largest cruise ship sets sail from Miami

Royal Caribbean’s “Icon of the Seas,” billed as the world’s largest cruise ship, sails from the Port of Miami in Miami, Florida, on its maiden cruise, January 27, 2024. Marco Bello | Afp | Getty Images The world’s largest cruise ship set sail from Miami, Florida over the weekend, embarking on a seven-day island-hopping trip … Read more

Norway defends deep-sea mining as a necessary step into the unknown

Norway defends deep-sea mining as a necessary step into the unknown

ROTTERDAM, SOUTH HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS – 2022/02/08: The deep-sea creatures on board the Luciana and the mining vessel Hidden Gem seen in the background, during the demonstration. Ocean Rebellions protest The Deep Sea Says No Why the deep sea? The deep seabed is largely unexplored, many areas have unique marine life (an estimated 10-million life forms … Read more

Texas Is Already Running Out of Water

Texas Is Already Running Out of Water

“However, if a system is permanently impaired it is also possible that recovery will not reach former levels,” Montagna said. Studies suggest that systems around Corpus Christi may already be “permanently impaired,” Montagna said, largely due to a sustained lack of fresh water. Similar problems span the lower Texas coast. The Rio Grande hasn’t flowed … Read more

This Grinning Hybrid Lamborghini Urus Prototype Isn’t Plotting Anything Sinister, We Promise

This Grinning Hybrid Lamborghini Urus Prototype Isn’t Plotting Anything Sinister, We Promise

Screenshot: Varryx on YouTube This big boy is likely the Lamborghini ’s new plug-in hybrid variant of its extremely popular Urus crossover. Sure, it’s hidden under a few layers of grim, gray billowy nightgown and seems to have a sardonic grin, but all the better to hide the newly-redesigned headlights. It’s Time To Upgrade To Four-Door … Read more

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Is Dead, So Pour One Out For Ingenuity

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Is Dead, So Pour One Out For Ingenuity

After nearly 3 years on the surface of Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is dead. NASA is investigating the cause of the helicopter’s death, but the agency says that the Ingenuity clipped one of its wings, so to speak, having struck one of its rotor blades on the ground, which means the Mars helicopter can no … Read more

CEOs bemoan archaic systems in Europe that curb climate solutions

CEOs bemoan archaic systems in Europe that curb climate solutions

Steam rises from the Niederaussem coal-fired power plant operated by German utility RWE, which stands near open-pit coal mines that feed it with coal, on November 13, 2017 near Bergheim, Germany. Lukas Schulze | Getty Images News | Getty Images In order to drive the progress and development of innovative solutions that tackle climate change … Read more

China’s financial institutions urged to support property developers

China’s financial institutions urged to support property developers

An artwork juxtaposing Chinese yuan cash bills with the China’s flag Javier Ghersi | Moment | Getty Images China’s financial institutions should provide strong support to the country’s beleaguered real estate sector and not “blindly withdraw” financing for projects facing difficulties, according to a senior Chinese financial regulatory official. His strongly worded comments follow the … Read more

Commodity markets are in a ‘super squeeze’— higher prices may continue

Commodity markets are in a ‘super squeeze’— higher prices may continue

SUIXI, CHINA – DECEMBER 30: An employee works on the production line of aluminum foil at a workshop of Anhui Limu New Material Technology Co., Ltd on December 30, 2023 in Suixi County, Huaibei City, Anhui Province of China. (Photo by Li Xin/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Global … Read more