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How a carbon tax can fight inequality and climate change

Enlarge / Footprints made out of fresh green grass on a dry cracked earth base. (credit: Hype Photography / Getty Images ) Carbon taxes can attract a lot of flak. On one hand, some groups hate taxes and are indifferent to climate change—in Canada, various provincial governments actively fought (and ultimately lost ) against the […]

Ford is setting up a new EV battery center in southeast Michigan

Ford will spend $185 million on a new 200,000-square-foot “battery center of excellence” called Ion Park in Michigan. It will join Ford’s new Battery Benchmarking and Test Laboratory in Allen Park, Michigan, seen here. [credit: Ford ] The Ford Motor Company announced on Tuesday that it is creating a new “global battery center of excellence,” […]

Who will win the self-driving race? Here are eight possibilities

Enlarge (credit: Emanuel M Schwermer) The self-driving technology industry is in a strange state right now. A number of companies have been pouring millions of dollars into self-driving technology for years, and many of them have prototype self-driving vehicles that seem to work. Yet I know of only one company—Waymo—that has launched a fully driverless […]