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Wabtec’s FLXdrive Heavy Haul locomotive, the world’s first 100% battery-electric heavy-haul locomotive for mainline service, is headed to Australia to transport iron ore. World’s first electric heavy-haul locomotive Iron ore mining company Roy Hill is piloting the FLXdrive commercially in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. It has a max battery capacity of 7 megawatt hours (MWh). (To put…

The all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup found its second European home just in time for the upcoming alpine winter. Ford F-150 Lightning finds second European home Ford is bringing its electric truck to Switzerland as its second European market, the automaker announced Tuesday. The news comes after Ford launched the F-150 Lightning in Norway in April, spearheading its European offensive.

Tesla is ramping up hiring for its humanoid robot program, Optimus, including some reinforcement learning engineers. It was hard to take Tesla Bot seriously when Elon Musk announced it by having someone dressed as a robot dance on stage. To this day, many people are taking the project seriously, but Tesla certainly is. The latest demonstration of Tesla Optimus prototypes was way more impressive…

Electric motorcycles have demonstrated superior performance in many areas from acceleration to speed and even towing, but they’ve long trailed behind ICE-bikes when it comes to range. That’s set to change with the launch of the new 2024 Evoke 6061-GT electric motorcycle, now preaparing to make its North American debut. Evoke Motorcycles has built urban-oriented naked bikes for years, focusing…