The #electric #motorcycles revolution is coming and – shock! – it will be here to stay.
We know many of you out there will take a lot of convincing to convert, so here are some of the most convincing electric motorcycles available right now or coming soon that maybe – just maybe – will spark your interest
LiveWire ONE (1:03) LiveWire Del Mar (2:14) Zero SR/F (2:56) BMW CE.04 (3:48) Energica Ego (4:46) Energica Experia (5:45) Kymco RevoNEX (6:24) Damon HyperSport (7.20) Arc Vector (8:11) Ducati MotoE (9:17)
With AI and automation already displacing jobs in the United States, and the problem only expected to get worse, the idea of a Universal Basic Income is being touted as a solution to save us. But is it all it’s cracked up to be?
Blockchain, commonly associated with cryptocurrencies, has far more wide-reaching potential than digital money. IO Global Founder Charles Hoskinson joins Jill Malandrino on Nasdaq TradeTalks at Consensus2022 by CoinDesk to discuss.
We have a home heating and cooling (HVAC) solution that could move 3-5x more heat than the electricity we put into it. Air source and geothermal heat pumps are an amazing piece of counter-intuitive technology that can be 300-500% efficient. In the past they struggled in more extreme conditions, but things have come a long way since then. How well do heat pumps actually work? And should we be using them everywhere? Let’s see if we can come to a decision on this.
Exploring why an accidental discovery may have unlocked the holy grail in battery research: an energy dense, long lasting, and safe battery.
Lithium sulfur batteries may be the holy grail of energy storage. Besides fueling electric vehicles (EVs) adoption, they could turbocharge the integration of renewable energy into our electric grid. However, a technical fault has been holding back their economic feasibility…until now. Could this lithium sulfur discovery from Drexel University make it the future of battery storage?
Batteries are a triumph of science—they allow smartphones and other technologies to exist without anchoring us to an infernal tangle of power cables. Yet even the best batteries will diminish daily, slowly losing capacity until they finally die. Why does this happen, and how do our batteries even store so much charge in the first place? Adam Jacobson gives the basics on batteries.
Celebrities, sports people, politicians – anyone and everyone seems to be getting into NFTs. These non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have changed the business of buying, selling and owning art and digital property, and ‘collectibles’ like ‘Bored Apes’ have sold for millions online.
Many say they are buying these images to be part of a community and because they love the art. But, in reality, how much of this is a speculative bubble that could soon burst?
One of the guiding principles of the belief that electric vehicles will take over from internal combustion is the falling cost of batteries. From a pack price of around $1,200 per kWh in 2010, the prices had dropped to $137 per kWh by 2020 and £132 per kWh in 2021. There was an expectation of costs below $100 by 2023, by which point EVs would hit price parity with equivalent internal combustion vehicles and the game would be over for oil and gas. But the global surge in lithium prices have led some to question whether this dream would really become a reality.
Lithium carbonate prices had been dropping since a peak in 2018 of around $15,000 per ton to half that price by the end of 2020, according to Edison Group. But, in large part due to the demand for EVs, the price has been growing all through 2021, hitting over $25,000 per ton by the end of last year, and now reaching over $40,000 per ton. This looks like a dire situation, because EV demand is only going up and some are now saying that production can’t scale because lithium prices will hold it back, along with surging prices of other minerals. According to Trading Economics, cobalt has gone from $30,000 in 2020 to $80,000 per ton today and nickel has surged even more, relatively speaking, from $20,000 to $80,000 per ton.
