Wheels: EVs in the news

I know, electric vehicles aren’t everyone’s idea of excitement, but regardless of individual opinion a lot of time, effort and money has gone into an EV future. Just when that future will be fully realized is another topic fraught with speculation, and a cold dose of reality, but we can at least agree that the EV train has left the station and it’s not coming back. With so many small and large developments in the industry rolling out on a daily basis I thought I’d cover a few here, in no particular order.

A while back, I wrote about the number of autonomous trucks on the roads in various stages of testing. Most are navigating highly traveled trucking corridors comprised of wide and fast interstate highways. But what happens when one of these autonomous big rigs has a mechanical fault? I don’t mean a software problem but a good old-fashioned mechanical breakdown.