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UPS collaborating with Workhorse to deploy 50 electric trucks; rivaling acquisition cost of conventional; no subsidies

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Our goal is to make it easy for UPS and others to go electric by removing prior roadblocks to large scale acceptance such as cost. UPS will test the vehicles primarily on urban routes across the country, including Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. —Steve Burns, CEO of Workhorse Group.

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Ford and Newlab announce startups to pilot new EV tech in mobility innovation program

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In its first year, the Mobility Studio will help the companies pilot the development of a range of transformative services and technologies to spur more widespread commercial adoption of electric vehicles. Currently is operating in Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with plans to expand to several more cities soon.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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IBM's large commercial customers faced the implications of this emerging technology: Who would maintain the equipment and its software? It could run various software packages and a nice collection of commercial and consumer tools, including the accessible BASIC programming language. Tom Munnecke/Getty Images. Then disaster struck.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. potential to substantially reduce the costs of an electric. The plant will incorporate features that. This will allow a.

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