The Rise of Battery Trains

The Rise of Battery Trains

Felicity Bradstock Felicity Bradstock is a freelance writer specialising in Energy and Finance. She has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Birmingham, UK. More Info Premium Content By Felicity Bradstock – Sep 06, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT Japan pioneered battery-powered passenger trains, cutting thousands of tonnes of CO? since 2016. The UK is testing battery trains on intercity routes and metro lines, aiming for fast-charging systems to bridge gaps in electrificatio...
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New details emerge about the iPhone 17 Pro: Brighter display, longer battery life

New details emerge about the iPhone 17 Pro: Brighter display, longer battery life

Image: Felipe Esposito / Foundry Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, expected to be anounced on Tuesday, could feature a more efficient display, improved thermal efficiency, and a larger battery. This is according to a report by a leaker who goes by Setsuna Digital on China-based Weibo. This leaker has made several reports in the past that have been accurate. Setsuna Digital states that the iPhone 17 Pro will have a higher peak brightness and be able to maintain a higher brightness level for a...
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South Korean president vows to support Koreans arrested in US Hyundai plant immigration raid

South Korean president vows to support Koreans arrested in US Hyundai plant immigration raid

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung ordered all-out efforts on Saturday to respond to the arrests of hundreds of the nation’s citizens in a United States immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor car battery factory. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said the government has set up a team to respond to Thursday’s arrest of over 300 Koreans at the facility in the southern state of Georgia and that he may go to Washington to meet with officials if needed. “We are deeply concerned and feel a he...
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A scalding hot ‘sand battery’ is now heating a small Finnish town

A scalding hot ‘sand battery’ is now heating a small Finnish town

The new Polar Night Energy sand battery installed in Pornainen, a small municipality in southern Finland. (Image credit: Polar Night Energy) A small municipality in southern Finland recently installed the world’s largest “sand battery” to supply the town’s heating. The new sand battery, designed by Polar Night Energy, is effectively a giant sandpit encased in a roughly 100 by 40 foot (30 by 12 meter) steel container. The sand is heated using closed-loop heat transfer pipe...
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Model Y will inflate airbags ahead of collision when FSD cameras register a head-on crash as imminent – NotebookCheck.net News

Model Y will inflate airbags ahead of collision when FSD cameras register a head-on crash as imminent – NotebookCheck.net News

Tesla Model Y earns a 5-star rating in crash safety test. (Image source: NHTSA) Tesla is including a forward-looking feature in its latest 2025.32.3 software update for the 2022 and later Model Y and Model 3. A new safety option will leverage the Tesla Vision camera set found all around its vehicles to increase the driver and passenger survivability in the case of an accident. Instead of using the traditional bumper and other sensors to deploy airbags in a split second when the vehicle gets into...
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Digiera unveils HoloMax handheld gaming PC with 10.95-inch 2.5K 120Hz glasses-free 3D screen, 12C/24T AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD, and 80W battery – NotebookCheck.net News

Digiera unveils HoloMax handheld gaming PC with 10.95-inch 2.5K 120Hz glasses-free 3D screen, 12C/24T AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD, and 80W battery – NotebookCheck.net News

The Digiera HoloMax handheld gaming PC controllers can be detached and used wirelessly to play games on the glasses-free 3D screen. (Image source: Digiera) The Digiera HoloMax has debuted at IFA 2025 with a glasses-free 3D display, smart eye tracking, and real-time 2D-to-3D conversion powered by AstraDepth3D and AI. Available in three AMD-powered tiers, the handheld-laptop hybrid offers up to 64 GB RAM, 4 TB storage, and magnetic controllers for portable gaming. Digiera has unveiled the HoloMax...
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US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid

The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it executed its largest single-site raid to date, detaining 475 people at the Hyundai–LG battery plant under construction in Georgia. Dubbed Operation Low Voltage, hundreds of federal agents entered the facility on Thursday, according to HSI Special Agent in Charge Steven Schrank, who called “the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations.”...
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Homeland Security Investigations raided a Georgia battery plant, detaining 475 people

Homeland Security Investigations raided a Georgia battery plant, detaining 475 people

Homeland Security Investigations raided a Georgia battery plant, detaining 475 people The federal raid at a Hyundai and LG battery plant construction site in Georgia comes as the South Korean automaker has made significant efforts to manufacture cars and components in the U.S. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: Federal agents walked into a massive Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions construction site yesterday and detained nearly 500 people on suspected immigration offenses. The site, near Savannah, Georgia, is th...
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Hundreds arrested in ICE raid at Georgia Hyundai plant

Hundreds arrested in ICE raid at Georgia Hyundai plant

Sept. 5, 2025, 5:26 PM EDT By Erum Salam About 475 workers were arrested at a Hyundai car battery facility in Georgia on Thursday, in what the Department of Homeland Security is calling the largest single-site enforcement operation in its history. “ICE Homeland Security Investigations, in coordination with our law enforcement partners, executed a judicial search warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crim...
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Carney delays electric vehicle sales mandate by one year, launches review

Carney delays electric vehicle sales mandate by one year, launches review

OTTAWA — The federal electric vehicle sales mandate will not be implemented in 2026 as planned, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday, pushing back by at least a year a policy that would have set minimum sales targets for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. Introduced by the Liberals under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the mandate would have required 20 per cent of all new vehicles sold in Canada next year to be electric. The standard as written is to rise steadily each year until 2...
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