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Volvo Cars, POC and Ericsson to demo connected car and bike helmet prototype at International CES 2015

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars, protective gravity sports gear manufacturer POC and Ericsson will present an innovative safety technology connecting drivers and cyclists at the International CES in Las Vegas next month. The cyclist will be warned via a helmet-mounted alert light. Some select cycling statistics: Globally, 132.3

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Electric Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept pickup truck revealed at CES

Charged EVs

Ram Trucks, the US truck arm of global automaker Stellantis , took the wraps off what it called the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept truck on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Paradigm breaker’ plug-in hybrid to come.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Cars That Think

They’re used in the phosphors that make white-light and other LEDs possible, and they’re in compounds used to purify key semiconductor materials such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride, to indicate just a couple of their scores of applications in technology. But what are the statistics on that? in Western countries. Sanderson: Yes.

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