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Drone pilots don’t need to be told about the wonders of electric flight.  But Scientific American believes electric aviation for passengers may be here sooner than we think as the industry struggles to decarbonize. It’s one of the top ten emerging technologies the magazine highlights in its most recent issue. In an article co-written by Katherine Hamilton and Tammy Ma, the authors point…

BMW has unveiled its highly-anticipated iNEXT electric SUV, which now becomes the ‘BMW iX’. It features a range of more than 300 miles of range and strong performance. BMW has been hyping the production version of the iNext as Tesla competitor for years now. Now they finally unveiled the production version, which they are now calling the BMW iX, but the vehicle is still about a year away…

Tesla hires the former head of a Mercedes-Benz factory near Berlin just after having fired the head of its Gigafactory Berlin project. The local union behind the Daimler factory is getting weirdly mad about it. René Reif was the head of the Mercedes-Benz factory in Marienfelde near Berlin until October of last year. Now IG Metall, a powerful union in the auto industry in Germany, reports that…