WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s military will receive about NZ$5.3 billion (U.S. $3.3 billion) under the country’s 2023/2024 defense budget, unveiled May 18.
Last year, the New Zealand Defence Force received about NZ$4.9 billion. Inflation to December 2022 was just over 7%, according to Statistics NZ.
New Zealand’s Army has the largest share of funding among the armed services…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force plans to award a contract for its Next Generation Air Dominance platform in 2024.
The service said in a Thursday release that it sent industry a classified solicitation for an engineering and manufacturing development contract for the…
WASHINGTON — A breach of the debt ceiling could do “long-lasting and profound damage” to the defense industrial base, the Air Force’s top acquisition official said Thursday.
The exact effects of a breach are hard to predict because it is “such uncharted…
Tesla is evidently still planning to make the Cyberquad as it files for a new trademark for the electric ATV.
When Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck in 2019, CEO Elon Musk had a little “one more thing” moment on stage when they brought out the Tesla Cyberquad, an electric ATV, to show the payload capacity of the Cybertruck’s bed. At the time, it wasn’t clear whether Tesla planned on making…
BMW i5 image leaked ahead of its official debut
May 18, 2023
BMW’s first electric 5 series sedan, the i5, is days away from making its global debut. Before its official release, a new image of the BMW i5 was leaked, and from the first look, the electric sedan is impressive.
BMW i5 finally comes alive as new image emerges
After…
The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced a Record of Decision for SunZia, the massive clean energy transmission project in the US Southwest.
BLM completed the review period for SunZia in less than two years – one of the final…
Believe it or not, a stranger in China sent a massive shipping crate to my house with what supposedly contained an electric micro-car. What would happen next was far from an ordinary Tuesday.
It all started with a strange message from someone in China. “Can we send you an electric car?”
For those who know me, that might not actually sound so strange.
If you don’t already follow my writing…
Chrysler says its first EV outshines the Airflow concept, hints at a future electric 300
May 18, 2023
Chrysler’s first fully electric vehicle will not look like or be called the Airflow concept officially unveiled at CES last year. According to the brand’s new chief designer, Chrysler will take a new, more modern direction with its first EV.
Chrysler’s first EV is a…
Volvo and Polestar owner Geely announced it had raised its stake in the iconic British luxury automaker Aston Martin to 17% as part of a new relationship agreement.
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd., or simply Geely to most, is China’s largest privately owned auto…
Elon Musk is hinting at the next-generation Tesla Roadster beating Rimac Nevara’s newly achieved performance records.
We are getting more news about the next-gen Roadster in the last few days than we have in over a year.
After many delays, CEO Elon Musk was asked about it by a Tesla shareholder at the company’s annual meeting yesterday, and he released a new timeline:
We expect to complete…
