THE LITHIUM SPOT E-ZINE SPEAKS WITH OROCOBRE MD/CEO RICHARD SEVILLE
The Lithium Spot e-zine has spoken with Orocobre Limited (ORE:ASX ORL:TSX) MD / CEO Richard Seville on all things Lithium, including the recent Morgan Stanley downgrade of the lithium sector and much more.
Strong policy and falling battery costs drive another record year for electric cars
According to the latest edition of the International Energy Agency’s Global Electric Vehicles Outlook the number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017, a 54% increase compared with 2016. China remained by far the largest electric car market in the world, accounting for half sold last year.... View Article
Australia unplugged: why we’re still lagging behind on electric cars
For Brigid Niall and her daughter Queenie it was quite a road trip. Not because of the route they took on their weekend drive – around their inner-Melbourne suburb, through Melbourne’s CBD and up to East Brunswick in the inner-north – but for the reaction they received from other motorists and onlookers. Niall was at... View Article
April 12, 2018
The road to China’s autonomous-driving future is paved with solar panels, mapping sensors and electric-battery rechargers as the nation tests an “intelligent highway” that could speed the transformation of the global transportation industry.
The technologies will be embedded underneath transparent concrete used to build a 1,080-meter-long (3,540-foot-long) stretch of road in the eastern city of Jinan. About 45,000 vehicles barrel over the section every day, and the solar panels inside generate enough electricity to power highway lights and 800 homes.
Yet Qilu Transportation wants to do more than supply juice to the grid: it wants the road to be just as smart as the vehicles of the future. The government says 10 percent of all cars should be fully self-driving by 2030, and Qilu considers that an opportunity to deliver better traffic updates, more accurate mapping and on-the-go recharging of electric-vehicle batteries—all from the ground up.
FULL ARTICLE: China’s Built a Road So Smart It Will Be Able to Charge Your Car