The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) updated the EV tax credit rules today with new requirements that should enable more electric cars to become eligible. Even though it has been in effect for over a year, the US has still been frequently updating its reformed federal incentive for electric vehicles. […]
Philips received a warning letter from the FDA in February, which the Agency posted on Tuesday, stating that an inspection of the tech giant’s manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China, that makes CT and ultrasonography systems revealed it was not in compliance with the Quality System Regulation’s good manufacturing requirements. The FDA said an inspection of […]
Voodin Blade Technology In a first, German startup Voodin Blade Technology just installed wooden blades on a prototype wind turbine. Voodin Blade Technology made the 9.3-meter (63.3-foot) wooden blades specifically out of laminated veneer lumber (LVL), and installed them on an existing wind turbine in Breuna, Germany, near the city of Kassel. According to the National Renewable Energy […]
Tesla has revealed that the Cybertruck’s frunk is using a ‘learning algorithm,’ which explains some of the inconsistent results in finger-pinching tests. Many people have had concerns about the Cybertruck’s sharp corners being a liability for users and pedestrians. If you have the Cybertruck in your algorithm, you must have seen some of the countless […]
Earlier today, UK-based regulator the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved Voxelotor for use across the NHS to treat over 4,000 Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patients. After years of setbacks in its approval, with support from novel data generation firm Sanius Health, the therapy will provide thousands of patients with SCD across […]
Listen to this article 00:00 06:47 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. When Kathleen Walker-Meikle, a historian at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, ponders the Middle Ages, her mind tends to drift not to religious conquest or Viking raids, but to squirrels. Tawny-backed, white-bellied, tufted-eared red squirrels, to be […]
The Albemarle lithium processing facility in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Logan Cyrus | Bloomberg | Getty Images Albemarle‘s plans to reopen a resource-rich lithium mine in North Carolina will take longer than originally expected as a collapse in lithium prices weighs on the company. Albemarle, a top lithium producer, […]
Thousands of patients with sickle cell disorder are to be offered a new “life-changing” treatment on the NHS from today following the approval and roll-out of a new drug that could significantly improve their quality of life. Up to 4,000 people with sickle cell disease in England could benefit from the drug Voxelotor if recommended […]
With an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths in 2020, cancer is a major global health threat”. This, quoted in the European Patent Office (EPO) “Patents and innovation against cancer” report of February 2024, highlights the scale of the challenge to researchers in the fight against this devastating disease. Reassuringly, the […]
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new electric bike models launched by Pedego, a discussion of the rising trend of potted e-bike batteries, Bosch-powered e-bikes enter Taiwan, I also entered Taiwan to test Gogoro’s new […]
