BRUSSELS – The Commission is preparing a series of major initiatives to cut red tape for startups and position Europe as "the best place" for technology-driven companies.
According to a document seen by Euractiv, the strategy focuses on bringing in and keeping talented people from inside the EU and abroad and helping startups scale up.
One key initiative is the "Blue Carpet Initiative," which will boost...
Technical standards help drive innovation and growth by ensuring that interoperable and secure technologies are widely adopted by businesses and consumers. This is even more essential in consideration of the rapid digitalisation and AI transformation impacting all industrial fields.
Patents play a key role in this process by incentivising research and development and making innovative technologies available for standardisation at an early stage. Standardisation...
General Motors said it plans to begin using a “groundbreaking” lower-cost battery technology in its largest electric SUVs and trucks in 2028, in a move that it said would deliver the same range to drivers while boosting profitability.
The new batteries use lithium manganese-rich (LMR) chemistry that relies more on prevalent, less-expensive minerals such as manganese...
When Slate Auto, a start-up, unveiled a roughly $25,000 electric pickup truck last month, social media lit up with comments. Many people saw the no-frills vehicle, with an easy-to-repair body and nostalgic hand crank windows, as a refreshing antidote to today’s overstuffed and increasingly unaffordable cars.How unaffordable? Average monthly payments on new cars have soared to $739 in March from $537 in January...
