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Boundary Layer Technologies reveals ELECTRA all-electric hydrofoiling ferry concept

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Boundary Layer Technologies, a California-based marine technology startup, revealed its concept design for a fully electric hydrofoiling ferry: ELECTRA. Hydrofoil technology is the key to enabling electrification of passenger ferries. —Ed Kearney, CEO of Boundary Layer Technologies.

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Hyundai Motor Group unveils TIGER uncrewed ultimate mobility vehicle concept

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TIGER is being developed by Hyundai Motor Group’s New Horizons Studio, headquartered in Mountain View, California. Vehicles like TIGER, and the technologies underpinning it, give us an opportunity to push our imaginations. New Horizons Studio has been focused on developing technologies to enable concept vehicles such as TIGER.

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Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept aircraft becomes NASA’s newest X-plane: X-66A

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Working with NASA, Boeing will build, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft with extra-long, thin wings stabilized by diagonal struts, known as a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept. To reach our goal of net zero aviation emissions by 2050, we need transformative aircraft concepts like the ones we’re flying on the X-66A.

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Fisker to establish new technology center in San Francisco

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announced details surrounding its first dedicated engineering and technology center, to be located in the Mission District of San Francisco. As a company born in California, we wanted to draw on all the diversity, creativity and technical capability this state is famous for. Fisker Inc. Fisker Ocean.

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Volvo Group collaborates with California stakeholders to showcase potential of connected vehicle technologies with a Volvo VNL

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In a coordinated effort to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for the transportation of goods while also reducing its impact on society, Volvo Group collaborated closely with several key California stakeholders to demonstrate Eco-Drive technology as part of its involvement in the Zero Emission Drayage Truck Demonstration Project.

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Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy to develop 75 MW green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California; Fusion Fuel’s first US project

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Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy have entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California. The companies have already entered into a land-lease agreement to secure 320 acres in Kern County, California for the project’s development.

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California Energy Commission awards follow-on funding to Sepion Technologies for advanced membranes for Li-metal batteries

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As part of $14 million in continuation grants, the California Energy Commission is awarding $450,000 in additional funding to Sepion Technologies , an Emeryville-based company developing battery membrane materials capable of supporting batteries that can power electric vehicles for 400 miles.

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