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Airtel and Jio are rapidly rolling out 5G networks nationallyThe Biden administration does not plan to extend a July 1 deadline for airlines to upgrade airplane altimeters, the measuring instruments that are crucial for bad-weather landings, to address potential interference from 5G wireless technology, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. Buttigieg in a call on Tuesday told airlines that the deadline will not be moved. He said airlines had made progress but urged them to work aggressively to continue…

Tesla has announced the price of the needed retrofit for older Tesla vehicles to use the CCS adapter and access other charging stations. For the past year, Tesla has been working to open its Supercharger network to non-Tesla electric vehicles in North America. This has been a concern for Tesla owners since it will increase traffic at Supercharger stations. On top of that, it doesn’t work both ways, since Tesla owners don’t have access to most non-Tesla charging stations due to them being…

Iron and steel form the structural backbone of modern life, but they're responsible for somewhere around 8% of global carbon emissions, making them the single biggest source of industrial greenhouse gases.The path to a 100% clean future is clear enough; ditch the blast furnaces and baked-coal coke reductants, and replace them with electric arc furnaces running on clean energy, and green hydrogen reductants. Boom: green steel with water as the only by-product.Here's the problem: humanity is now producing somewhere around…

VR may still be struggling to find its “killer app,” but let no one claim that developers haven’t gotten pretty clever in trying. Holoride promises to turn the back seat of your car into an amusement park with VR synced to the motion of the car. After emerging in 2019 as an offshoot of Audi, the company arrived at CES 2023 with one major advancement: it now works in any car. And to prove that point in the most dramatic way possible, they let me try it out in a 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood. Since the Holoride system…

Tesla is starting to offer a $700 round steering wheel retrofit for people who bought a Model S or Model X with a yoke steering wheel. Yesterday, we reported on Tesla finally offering round steering as an option on Model S and Model X vehicles, which the automaker was only offering with its “yoke” steering wheel for the last two years. It was confusing to some why Tesla wouldn’t offer a regular steering wheel as an option in the first place. Now it is finally an option for new buyers, and…

Four years after , Holoride’s in-car VR technology is finally poised to go mainstream. Starting today, the startup has begun selling Retrofit, an all-in-one system you can install in your car to access Holoride content, in the US and Germany. The company designed Retrofit to work with vehicles of any make, model or year. The device is about the size of a smart speaker and weighs less than half a pound. Installing Retrofit involves attaching it to the windshield of your car with the included mounting arm, which features a…

UNSW researchers have prototyped and tested a retrofit system that converts diesel engines to run on 90% hydrogen, radically reducing both carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions while boosting efficiency by an impressive 26% in the process.Running 10% diesel, the process is not a full green conversion for diesel engines, but it does offer a way for certain businesses to hugely reduce their emissions output without wastefully junking existing assets that could still remain useful for a long time. The retrofit system…

Electric vehicles are getting an overwhelming reception from people not only in India but across the globe. Several countries are pushing hard for electrification in public transport to replace the ICE-powered vehicles. Going a step ahead in the same direction, engineers at University of New South Wales (UNSW) have found success in retrofitting a diesel powertrain to use hydrogen as a fuel in order to reduce carbon emissions. It might sound a bit unrealistic but the team’s hard work of 18 months has paid off in style. The…

EV maker Omega Seiki Mobility is setting up a retrofit facility to convert internal combustion engine (ICE)-powered vehicles into electric vehicles near Chandigarh at an investment of USD 25 million, which is expected to be operational by the December quarter, the company's founder and chairman, Uday Narang, has said. Narang also said that as the financing remains a challenge for the EV customers, retrofitting these vehicles within the reach of those customers who want to move to such vehicles from ICE, particularly at a…

The scars and pockmarks of the aging apartments and housing units under the purview of the New York City Housing Authority don’t immediately communicate the idea of innovation. The largest landlord in the city, housing nearly 1 in 16 New Yorkers, NYCHA has seen its buildings literally crumble after decades of deferred maintenance and poor stewardship. All told, this forsaken subsidized housing is in the midst of what local planners have called “demolition by neglect.” It would require an estimated $40 billion or more, at…