It could be just a fender bender or an unforeseen rain shower, but a few seconds of disruption can translate to extra minutes or even hours of mind-numbing highway traffic. But how much of this […]
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CCTA Uses NVIDIA DRIVE for Federal Highway Pilot
It could be just a fender bender or an unforeseen rain shower, but a few seconds of disruption can translate to extra minutes or even hours of mind-numbing highway traffic. But how much of this […]
Ukrainian fighter jet hits road sign while landing on highway
Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 combat jet struck a highway sign during an exercise in Ukraine on August 27. The fighter jet and several others were practicing dispersed landings on a highway when the collision […]
50 Reasons We Still Love Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited
Gimme a Reason takes classic albums celebrating major anniversaries and breaks down song by song the reasons we still love them so many years later. This time we make like a rolling stone with Bob […]
Michigan sets 40-mile highway aside for self-driving infrastructure
Michigan announced this week plans to turn a busy stretch of interstate into a self-driving car corridor. An Alphabet-backed startup has been tasked with turning a stretch between Detroit and Ann Arbor into a connected […]
Tesla Model Y ‘surprises’ in highway speed test against rest of Tesla lineup
Tesla Model Y’s highway efficiency has been put to test against the rest of Tesla’s lineup, and it “surprises,” according to the firm behind the test. Nextmove, a German electric car rental company, has been […]
Michigan first U.S. state to dedicate highway lanes to automated vehicles - National
The state of Michigan and some private partners are taking steps toward building or assigning dedicated lanes for automated vehicles on a 40-mile (65-kilometer) stretch of highway between Detroit and Ann Arbor. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer […]
Dangers in the car: TxDOT’s new augmented reality game urges drivers to never drive distracted | Free
Despite stay at home orders and less traffic the past few months, Texas has continued to see about the same amount of fatalities on our state’s roadways. In an effort to reach drivers more creatively […]
12,000 Bottles of Templeton Rye Spill Onto Missouri Highway After Truck Overturns
If you are a fan of Templeton Rye you might be waiting a little longer for new bottles to hit the shelf. Last Wednesday, a truck carrying 12,000 bottles of the Iowa-produced rye whiskey overturned […]
Charged EVs | DC fast chargers in California’s Central Valley are a crucial link in the West Coast Electric Highway
DC fast chargers in California’s Central Valley are a crucial link in the West Coast Electric Highway Posted July 8, 2021 by Charles Morris & filed under Newswire, The Infrastructure. Three Love’s […]
Charged EVs | Swiss highway charging stations to feature ABB energy storage and management
Swiss highway charging stations to feature ABB energy storage and management Posted June 29, 2021 by Charles Morris & filed under Newswire, The Infrastructure. Swiss electric utilities Primeo Energie and Alpiq E-Mobility […]
Charged EVs | New highway charging station in Georgia has solar panels and 175 kW of power
New highway charging station in Georgia has solar panels and 175 kW of power Posted June 23, 2021 by Charles Morris & filed under Newswire, The Infrastructure. The Ray, a nonprofit transportation […]
Electric highway for trucks, Model 3 solar roof, Mullen EV plans: Today’s Car News
The Tesla Model 3 is serving as a test mule for Lightyear’s new solar roof. Public electric-vehicle charging expanded at a record rate in 2019 as EV sales themselves sputtered. Mullen is moving to the […]
Utilities aim to make I-5 a West Coast electric highway for commercial trucks
Commercial electric trucks ranging from regional delivery vans to big rigs will have places to plug in when they’re transporting goods up and down the West Coast, according to a plan announced Wednesday by electric […]
Electric Volvo XC90 will likely offer optional fully autonomous highway driving
An upcoming electric version of the Volvo XC90 could get what the automaker calls “fully autonomous highway driving” thanks to new sensors. Volvo announced Monday that, beginning in 2022, vehicles built on its SPA2 platform […]
Next-generation Volvo EVs will use lidar for hands-off highway driving by 2022
The Volvo brand is all about safety. Today the company announced that it will equip its next-generation vehicles with lidar, an expensive sensor that has almost entirely been reserved for fleet-based robotaxis — not passenger […]
Peer-to-peer highway EV charging would use telescoping cables between moving cars
Imagine a future where your EV was getting low on charge on a highway road trip – so you deploy a telescoping charging cable to another EV and borrow a few kilowatt-hours. An engineering professor […]
Bentley Bentayga plug-in hybrid rated for lower highway mpg than non-hybrid
Plug-in hybrids let you go mostly electric on the commute while also saving fuel—and gas money—en route to weekend destinations, without the charging infrastructure worries of a fully electric vehicle. Be forewarned, though: For those […]
Lucid Air electric sedan prototype covers 400+ highway miles, company teases
If you’ve ever taken a highway trip with an electric car, you understand that moving along even close to the flow of traffic can really put a dent in how much range you get from […]
World-first in-road charging test for trucks successful, highway speeds next
Initial tests of in-road charging for electric trucks on a stretch of Swedish road have been successful, according to project managers. The scope of testing will now increase, encompassing more vehicles, additional stretches of road, […]
Meetings and events | Agri News
MINNESOTA Freeborn County Feb. 26 — Economics of Soil Health and Cover Crops: What’s the Bottom Line, 8:30 a.m.- 3 p.m., Albert Lea Goodhue County March 14 — LSP Farm Transition Planning workshop, 9:30 a.m.-4 […]
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MINNESOTA Benton County Feb. 24 — Private pesticide applicator renewal workshop,12:30-4 p.m., City Hall, Foley Blue Earth County Feb. 21 — Renting It Out Right, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Sisters of Notre Dame, 170 Good Counsel, Mankato […]
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MINNESOTA Benson County Feb. 12 — Extension Land rent workshop, 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., West Central Outreach Center, 46352 Highway 326, Morris Benton County Feb. 24 — Private pesticide applicator renewal workshop,12:30-4 p.m., City […]
Meetings and events | Agri News
MINNESOTA Benson County Feb. 12 — Extension Land rent workshop, 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., West Central Outreach Center, 46352 Highway 326, Morris Benton County Jan. 24 — Private pesticide applicator renewal workshop, 9 a.m.-12:30 […]