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Ram 1500 REV locked in for Australia: Mega electric pickup truck to deliver 800km driving range

EV Central

But the brand is also pursuing from-factory right-hand drive production, both for the 1500 REV and for future product, as part of a broader push to go global. Historically, Ram brand sales have been predominantly in North America. “If you look at the numbers of South America, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand….this

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Lots of Italy, on Many Collectible Plates

Baua Electric

The group, which has about 400 members in Europe and South America, is planning an exhibition of the plates at the Fondazione Sant Elia , a museum in Palermo. These days, patrons of the restaurants receive the plates only if they order the house specialty as part of a multicourse Buon Ricordo tasting menu.)

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

Cars That Think

The Assembling of IBM’s Parts Back in the late 19th century, as the U.S. Time-recording devices tracked when workers arrived and left, while scales weighed everything from meat at a butcher shop to industrial machine parts. The end of the war opened up Europe’s huge market, and smaller ones in South America and parts of Asia.

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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

Green Car Congress

from 35,000 parts per million (ppm) to 5,000 ppm. The study was led by University of Delaware’s James Corbett, and included an international team of researchers from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York and Energy and Environmental Research Associates. —i.e.,

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

Green Car Congress

In his CES talk, Fields said that rapidly advancing connectivity; software and sensor technology; and big data were the enablers behind the Smart Mobility projects—eight in North America, nine in Europe and Africa, seven in Asia and one in South America. Dynamic Social Shuttle, New York and London.

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Best EV To Own To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?

My Energi

The roll out of electric vehicles to supersede fossil fuel vehicles will play an almighty part in our quest to save the one thing that gives us life. Equally, trying to visualise a swarm of zombies chasing this vehicle through the streets of New York is actually quite a comical thought. Meet The Contenders.

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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

Baua Electric

Darwin mentions slavery only briefly in his Santiago journals — he suspected a “very pretty schooner” in the harbor of being “a slaver in disguise” — but was repulsed by the cruelty he soon witnessed in South America. Their juice, called calabaceira, is thick, velvety and slightly sour — and was my favorite part of breakfast in Praia.)