Sales increase 43% globally in 2020 as plunging battery costs mean the cars will soon be the cheapest vehicles to buy

A thriving industry looks promising if consumer aversion can be overcome.

Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles

But there are lessons from the current crisis that should guide our response to the next one.

For some, the current crisis is a dummy run for long-term lockdown. Across the world, luxury bunkers are being built for a lucky few to survive calamity and collapse.

What are the biggest, boldest things that humanity could engineer? From planet lifters to space cannons, Anders Sandberg explores some of history's most ambitious visions.

New eco-friendly project launched by the crown prince panned on social media as 'nonsense' and 'dreamed up from a sci-fi movie'

The future of the world's largest rainforest looks bleak. A report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development concluded that the Amazon rainforest will collapse and largely become a dry, shrubby plain by 2064. Development, deforestation and the climate crisis are to blame, study author and geologist Robert Toovey Walker found.

China plans a digital version of its currency, which some say could become a big global payment system.

United Parcel Service Inc said on Tuesday it is buying 125 Tesla Inc all-electric semi-trucks, the largest known order for the big rig so far, as the package delivery company expands its fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles.

Companies are pledging to sell you more plant-based meat and dairy to fight climate change (and cash in on a growing trend).

The government must reckon with the impact of artificial intelligence on human employment by amending the tax regime.

A Korean fusion device has set a record by running for 20 seconds at 180 million degrees.

Within the next decade, trend forecaster Dr Morgaine Gaye predicts we will have moved beyond the current protein craze, be eating food made from ‘the biggest ingredient of the future’, and variety will play a greater role in all things fruit and veg.

Zoox, Amazon’s self-driving vehicle startup, revealed a prototype of its robotaxi Monday that could one day spend 16 hours a day offering rides in cities.

BloombergNEF predicts that by 2023, batteries will drop near the $100-per-kilowatt-hour threshold—good news for EV companies and electric-car shoppers.

Synthetic voices have become ubiquitous. They feed us directions in the morning, shepherd us through phone calls by day and broadcast the news on smart speakers at night. And as the technology used to make them improves, these voices are becoming more and more human-sounding. This is the final frontier in synthetic speech: replicating not just what we say but how we say it.

'I was confident that we would succeed when I launched this company, now I'm completely confident. It's game over for the incumbent industry'

An extremely odd project is planning to hold a remote-controlled car race next October ... On the surface of the Moon. What's more, the two racecars will be partially designed by high school kids, and McLaren P1 designer Frank Stephenson is involved.

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