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Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale’s Toyota Innova Crysta was recently involved in an accident in Maharashtra. According to reports, the minister was traveling from Satara district’s Wai region toward Mumbai. The front of the Toyota Innova Crysta was heavily damaged in the accident, but thankfully, the minister and other occupants, including the driver, escaped without any major injuries. What Happened? According to reports circulating online on various media websites, the…

There’s definitely more than one way to destroy a relationship. Classics involve cheating, lying, immaturity, and, probably the best of them all—stupidity.More can be thrown in there, but, regardless, it would be a tad bit difficult to categorize throwing $87,000 into a truck without consulting your partner of 2 years right before you’re due to move in.While it is tempting to buy a new toy to drive around in, it’s important to not lose sight of one’s financial priorities tooShare iconImage credits:…

An illustration of Blue Ring in orbit. Illustration: Blue OriginJeff Bezos’ space venture is ready to test its Blue Ring orbital platform, which could become a pivotal pitstop for missions journeying to the Moon and beyond. William Shatner on Jeff BezosBlue Origin is set to launch its Blue Ring as part of the DarkSky-1 (DS-1) mission, which is sponsored by the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, the company announced on Tuesday. The exact launch date has not been specified, nor has the launch provider been announced. “The…

Photo: Hitachi Energy Hitachi and Penske Truck Leasing have launched a high-capacity electric truck charging pilot at a major commercial truck depot in California. Penske’s electric truck charging pilot with Hitachi America and Hitachi Energy supports deployments in the Stockton, California, area. Hitachi Energy has supplied Penske with its Grid-eMotion Fleet EV charging system. Its DC fast chargers are scalable, modular, and available from 50 to 600 kW power. Hitachi says its compact…

Elon Musk says that Tesla will bring Tesla Semi, its electric semi truck, to production at Gigafactory Berlin. However, it will be important to start volume production in the US first. The CEO attended the reopening of Gigafactory Berlin after it had to shut down for just over a week following an arson attack that crippled its power supply. Tesla is currently only making the Model Y at Gigafactory Berlin. Local German media are reporting that Musk mentioned at the event that Tesla is looking…

Photo: Ashford International Truckstop bp’s EV charging brand, bp pulse, will electrify one of Europe’s largest and busiest truck stops to power up electric heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). Ashford International Truckstop is in Kent, England. The 21-acre Ashford International Truckstop currently offers 660 parking bays and convenience services for HGV drivers, and it’s got restaurants, shops, bars, and a gym. It’s close to Dover, the UK’s busiest ferry port, and LeShuttle Freight via the…

Remember how the Bluth family drove that airplane staircase truck in the TV series Arrested Development? My apologies if not, since that’s a bit critical to the lead image gag above. But either way, you can surely appreciate how ridiculous it would be to actually own and drive one of those as a real vehicle. And now thanks to Alibaba, you might not have to purely imagine it anymore. That’s right! This week’s entry in the future Pulitzer Prize-winning column Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the…

A new Swedish-designed front end for transport trucks could help reduce driver deaths in collisions with passenger cars. The structure is designed to both spread and absorb the force of impact between the two vehicles.According to scientists at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology, when fatalities occur as a result of collisions between cars and trucks, it is the driver of the car who dies in over 90% of the incidents. That figure applies to both head-on collisions and rear-endings in which the truck hits the…

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have developed a new truck front concept to significantly reduce fatal crashes in car-truck collisions. The new truck front comes after the EU regulations for the maximum length of a truck were lifted. Crash tests on the new truck front were carried out by the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket, and show that better truck designs can reduce passenger car compartment deformations…

Something much closer to home may be behind the seismic signals purported to be caused by an interstellar meteor falling to Earth 10 years ago.Last year, the meteor made headlines when a team of scientists visited what they considered to be the impact location of the space rock and dredged tiny spherules from the seafloor; debris, they speculated, that contains evidence of alien technology.A new problem with that claim has now arisen. Seismic monitoring data used to track the hypothetical object's path into the sea off…