DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

 NEW TOYOTA SPORTS CAR STARTING AT $16,000

                                        Source:  Toyota Concept

  • It's been widely rumored in top automotive circles that Toyota & Suzuki are developing a small, lightweight sports car priced to start at $16,000.00
  • It's a 2-seat coupe with a mid-mounted engine
  • Powered by a 120 hp, 1.0-liter, 3-cylinder engine &/or a hybrid-electric system
  • 147 pd-ft of torque
  • This is the long-awaited sports car that is inspired by and could be the revival of the Toyota MR2
  • The car is very lightweight at 2,204 pounds
  • Suzuki is said to be building the engine and the vehicle is expected to bear the Toyota logo.

ACCELERATING CLIMATE CHANGE

 
                                        Source:  Stock Image
  • According to national and global climate and weather experts, Climate Change is rapidly accelerating
  • Many parts of the south & southwestern US are having their earliest spring in 40 years with budding leaves erupting a month early
  • Same early spring pattern is hitting New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and other parts of the Northeast with record temperatures being set so far in 2023
  • According to the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, plants, birds and animals are responding to Climate Change and the triggers that the warmer Sun and warming temperatures are giving them much earlier this year
  • Furthermore, new research from Cornell University warns that the Antarctic's Doomsday glacier is "in-trouble" with melting under much of its ice sheaf
  • British researchers are reporting that Antarctic Sea ice levels are now at their lowest since record keeping started in 1979 and that the worst is yet to come.

TAXIS FLYING OVER NEW YORK CITY
                                        Source:  Blade


  • Blade Air Mobility and Beta Technologies have just completed the first successful test flight of a piloted eVTOL over New York City, positioning their flying taxi to eventually carry passengers
  • The test vehicle is a prototype of Beta's ALIA-250 eVTOL
  • ALIA is a 6-passenger eVTOL or all-electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle
  • It produces 1/10th of the sound decibel level of a conventional helicopter
  • The flying taxi has a fully electric propulsion system and produces zero emmissions
  • Blade currently offers Manhattan commuters helicopter service to JFK Airport and hopes to add eVTOL air taxis for the same route.
For more news stories like this, New Cars With Exponential Tech

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