Rolls-Royce tests all electric aircraft
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Managed a 15-minute flight

Rolls-Royce's "Spirit of Innovation" all-electric airplane completed a 15 minute flight, marking "the beginning of an intensive flight-testing phase in which we will be collecting valuable performance data on the aircraft's electrical power and propulsion system".

GM advises Chevrolet Bolt owners socially distance
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In case they blow up

General Motors urged some owners of Chevrolet Bolt electric cars to park and store the vehicles at least 50 feet away from other cars to reduce the risk that a spontaneous fire could spread.

Oregan and Utah work out how to make electric vehicles a bad idea
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Increased road user fees and tracking your movements

US states Oregon and Utah are working on ways to screw income lost from petrol taxes from electric car users and the results do not look good.

Forget EVs - think H20, Le Mans and Bill Wyman
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It is a kind of internal combustion - trust me


A hydrogen fuelled vehicle may well be the winner in the 2025 Le Mans race, a senior semiconductor analyst said today.

Republicans try to block car chip sales to Huawei
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So the blacklisting was not really about security after all

After US trade officials said they could not see anything wrong with a deal for Huawei to buy automotive chips from the US, a group of 13 Republican lawmakers decided to fight the deal.