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Oahu is a unique place. It’s the home of one of the largest clean tech incubators in the world, Elemental Impact, for a reason. Exorbitantly high electricity rates combined with ample natural resources make it an incredible laboratory to bring clean tech solutions to market.
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Oahu is a unique place.
It’s the home of one of the largest clean tech incubators in the world, Elemental Impact, for a reason.
Exorbitantly high electricity rates combined with ample natural resources make it an incredible laboratory to bring clean tech solutions to market.
As the world is on track to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, climate action must double down but also go beyond emissions cuts to prioritize adaptation, respond to loss and damage, and confront growing inequality. For decades, climate policy has been dominated by a central question: How do we avoid exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming above preindustrial levels?
In the topsy-turvy world of today’s federal energy policy, solar power is a bad thing. Various members of the President’s cabinet have advised that solar is “unreliable,” and that solar power plants routinely experience “catastrophic failure” with every sunset . So why does the US Department of Defense continue to pursue solar-enabled microgrids at its facilities?
Toyota has the new, rear-seat-less GRMN Corolla , Hyundai has its big-winged Elantra N TCR , and soon Honda will be bringing an even nuttier version of its Civic Type R to the party. On Friday, Honda confirmed that a Honda Racing Corporation version of its high-performance hatchback "is in development for the U.S.
Hero MotoCorp’s electric mobility brand VIDA has unveiled the UBX at EICMA 2026, presenting a further evolution of its urban electric motorcycle project. Described as a “proto-vehicle” and a “neo-naked urban explorer” , the motorcycle appears more developed than the earlier UBEX concept . The new unveiling follows our earlier report on an Indian design registration resembling a more production-oriented version of the UBEX concept.
Cadillac will give Colton Herta another practice outing at the Brazilian Grand Prix to earn him the last point he needs to finally secure his Formula 1 superlicence. This will be Herta's sixth FP1 outing of the season with Cadillac and he'll replace Sergio Perez.
In a move that follows industry trends and is likely due to increased production costs, Toyota has increased prices of its popular MPV, the Innova Crysta. The price hike is in the range of Rs 22,000 to Rs 33,000, depending on the variant. There are no major updates since the facelift version was launched earlier this year in June.
Due to a litany of misguided decisions on behalf of the Trump administration, gas is ridiculously expensive right now, corporate fuel economy requirements are worryingly low, and we're in an affordability crisis . In totally unrelated news, the oil and gas companies that spent millions to elect Trump are raking in record profits that are more than double what they were at this time last year .
BYD wasted no time, with sales of its new flagship electric sedan reaching 4,000 in just 19 days since its launch. With a record of more than 300,000 electric vehicles sold last month, BYD sold more EVs than the US did in the entire third quarter, combined.
NIO’s October sales were nothing like XPENG’s . Rather than soaring to record heights, they drooped. Rather than surpassing 50,000 sales (something NIO is yet to do and XPENG has done only this once), NIO scored 34,246 vehicle deliveries, the company’s lowest delivery total since April.
Nissan's SEMA concept count is up to six, and the topless Armada is, by far, the most extreme Nissan definitely has its hands full at this year's SEMA Show in Las Vegas. In addition to revealing a special Sentra concept and a pair of exciting Z cars , Nissan has presented a trio of wild off-road concepts based on the Frontier, Pathfinder, and Armada.
Although an entire tourism industry has grown around climbing Mount Everest, summiting the world's tallest mountain remains a tremendously dangerous endeavor. Two helicopters collided in mid-air while attempting to land at the same spot below the Everest base camp. Helicopter company Fishtail Air stated that the crash killed an Indian tourist, and the chopper's captain and another passenger were injured.
Why get a new NSX when you can just factory restore the best one? Honda wants to keep as many original NSXs on U.S. roads as possible and has just begun selling more than 3,000 reproduction parts to owners nationwide through the Honda Heritage Parts program .
XPENG had a fantabulous sales month in October. We can give you the numbers, but as you can see well enough in the chart above and below, the company’s sales soared to a whole new level last month. Reaching 50,237 vehicle deliveries, that meant 22% sales growth month over month and 20% sales growth year over year.
The Haas F1 team has decided Esteban Ocon will not race again for the squad, with 2027 debutant Rafa Camara getting an early debut this weekend on home soil. Following increasingly strained relations between Ocon and the team, a heated argument in Mexico proved the final straw that made team principal Ayao Komatsu decide to bench the Frenchman.
Esteban Ocon has been permanently dropped by Haas for the remainder of the Formula 1 season and will be replaced by Rafa Camara for this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix. Ocon was unexpectedly benched in the middle of last weekend’s Mexico event after a reported confrontation with team boss Ayao Komatsu on Friday after practice.
Electric pickup trucks are still a relatively new idea, but they've now been along long enough to gather some data on how they're selling. We totaled sales numbers from 2024, 2025, and 2026 so far to see which electric pickup trucks have had the biggest impact on the market in the past few years.
Pennsylvania is putting $37 million in federal NEVI funding toward what PennDOT says will be 515 new public EV charging ports across the Philadelphia region, including curbside chargers. The awards cover Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. PennDOT says the projects will expand public charging availability by 27% across the region and 53% in Philadelphia.
The Hyundai IONIQ 5 remains one of America’s most popular EVs outside Tesla, with October sales up 21%. While the Tesla Model Y and Model 3 still dominate the US electric vehicle market, accounting for about 50% of all sales through the third quarter , it was the Hyundai IONIQ 5 that ranked third.
Prepare to say goodbye to Range Rover’s two most affordable models, as the Evoque and Velar celebrate their final model year in production. The company has confirmed to British outlet Autocar that the volume sellers will cease production after 2027 and be replaced by the new Range Rover GT.
Ford has produced a diverse array of vehicles in its 123-year history, from workhorses like the bestselling F-series trucks to supercars like the GT supercar . Now, a small outfit seeks to blend the philosophies of those two vehicles. Fat Fender Garage, a restoration shop based in Arizona, has revealed the GT/FX at SEMA, taking the body of a 1956 F-100 truck and giving it performance chops meant to emulate the capabilities of the Ford GT.
The current trend of automakers "off-roadifying" their road cars has created a new breed of hiked up, black plastic-clad soft roaders that buyers can't seem to get enough of. Ford gave its Transit full-size van the treatment back in 2022 with the all-wheel-drive Transit Trail, but recalled all of them in early 2024 and replaced their 30.5-inch all-terrain tires that rubbed against the wheel wells with the same 28.5-inch tires on standard Transits, and owners were not pleased.
The entire Big Three will be battling for stock car supremacy in 2027. Dodge announced Monday that it will return to the NASCAR Cup Series next season. Kaulig Racing's pair of Dodge Chargers will be the first to compete in stock car racing's marquee series since the manufacturer's departure after the 2012 season .
" Grand Theft Auto VI " is set to be the biggest video game of the decade, if not one of the biggest games ever made. That distinction isn't just figurative either because it's set to be absolutely huge in the literal, bits and bytes sense, too.
The Luce, Ferrari’s first electric car and one of its most polarizing models, isn’t just selling. The five-seater EV designed by Jony Ive, Apple’s longtime design chief, was mocked and widely panned when it debuted in May, sending Ferrari’s stock price lower. But all that criticism hasn’t dampened demand, according to CEO Benedetto Vigna.
Jeep has just done something with the Wrangler that has never been done before: given it independent front suspension, and somehow, that's not even the wildest part of its latest concept vehicle. The automaker just pulled the covers off the Wrangler Scrambler SRT Concept at the 2026 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, and right away you can tell this thing is no ordinary Jeep truck.
Polo took the overall title of “German Car of the Year 2027,” starting at just €24,995 ($28,000). After winning in its class among entry-level models (up to €25,000), the VW ID. Polo beat out strong international competition to take the top spot as German Car of the Year for 2027 among all vehicles.
California startup Voya Energy announced a $35 million financing round in August 2026 for generators that use prepared scrap aluminum, air and water to produce electricity without combustion. Its immediate opportunity includes replacing diesel backup equipment at data centres, where exhaust, noise and permitting can be genuine obstacles.
Tesla’s driver-assistance system in Europe can no longer be set to drive 50% over the speed limit. The Netherlands’ RDW, which approved the system in April, confirmed today that it signed off on an update capping the speed margin at 10% and officially renaming “FSD Supervised” to Tesla Assisted Driving.
With Oliver Bearman firing on all cylinders in his sophomore Formula 1 campaign, it feels odd that Haas has been able to confirm the identity of Esteban Ocon's replacement in the second seat for 2027 before announcing Bearman is staying put for a third year.
BYD’s electric supercar delivers an insane nearly 3,000 hp from four electric motors. During a high-speed test, the Yangwang U9 Extreme crashed at about 280 mph, but the driver walked away unharmed. The Yangwang U9 Xtreme is a “dream car,” as BYD calls it, a souped-up, track-focused version of its electric hypercar.
Cities across the country have been dropping their Flock camera contracts left and right as people object to the surveillance state they enable. Canceling these contracts isn't always a straightforward process, however. The Verge reports that Flock is not only delaying the removal of their equipment from communities that have requested it, but also reactivating it when officials take matters into their own hands.
Sauber isn't a strange way to say Saab, also a defunct auto brand . Nor is it in any way related to the Sauber racing team that finally closed shop in 2025, giving way for Audi to take a seat at the Formula 1 table .
A base Ford Bronco makes 300 horsepower. Opt for the V-6 option, and it’ll add 30 horses; if that’s not enough, the Bronco Raptor reaches 418. Try doubling the Raptor’s output and adding a few hundred more horsepower. Ford’s most powerful crate engine ever is now on display for the first time at this year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Also, the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian in 2025, quietly started and then walked away from an electric two-wheeler pilot project in Kenya earlier this year, as it sought to focus its resources on its consumer e-bike and autonomous vehicle ambitions, TechCrunch has learned.
McLaren will introduce upgrades to its MCL40 Formula 1 car at this weekend’s Brazil Grand Prix, featuring a front wing concept which is expected to feature on its 2027 challenger.
As we all do occasionally, I found myself browsing BMW i8 listings over the weekend. A clean i8 passed me on the road, and it looked so good, I had to check prices. I mean, we're talking about a mid-engine sports car with butterfly doors and a sweet carbon-fiber chassis , so they can't be that cheap.
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