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Connectivity, automation and electrification were central themes at the Chicago Auto Show’s media day as manufacturers honed their pitch to the next generation of car buyers. The annual event retur...

/PRNewswire/ -- The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation has awarded the American Center for Mobility (ACM) and subrecipients CharIN and Argonne National...

Demand for electric vehicles is growing and a new report forecasts that one out of every five vehicles sold worldwide this year will be electric. But charging those vehicles and getting the power you need when you want it can be more complicated. Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien found that out for himself on a road trip in California. He reports in conjunction with Nova's "Chasing Carbon Zero."

The outlook for this year’s Chicago Auto Show is bright as brands roll out new electric models and inventory is getting back to normal after pandemic, supply-chain disruptions.

The Chicago Auto Show speeds into town and opens Saturday with a return to pre-COVID proportions. Heres whats hot and notable this year.

As Illinois continues its push to get a million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, a line of complex hurdles stands in the way, from preparing the electric grid for increased demand to sourcing the metal for the cars batteries. At Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County, scientists are exploring solutions to many of those challenges.

Aircraft carrier USS (CVN 73) is scheduled to return to the navy following its refuelling and complex overhaul (RCOH) in 2023, shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) CEO Chris Kastner confirmed. George Washington Aircraft carrier US...

Construction work has started on two new German Navy Seeversuch Küste (SVK) coastal trial support boats on order for the Bundeswehr's naval test and trials unit WTD 71. View of the building block with section 5 of the first SVK boat for Germ...

Documentary The delivery of a battered suitcase to Fumiko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levines best-selling book Hanas Suitcase. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and had Hana Bradys name painted on it. Larry Weinsteins masterful film follows Fumikos search to discover the details of Hanas life, which leads to the discovery of her brother George in Toronto. As small children they had been sent to Thereisenstadt...