Important Innovations

  Cezeri Successfully Test Flights                                   Source:  Cezeri Flying Car, Baykar  eVTOL Quadcopter Turkey's first flying car, named Cezeri, has successfully completed its first series of test flights.  Tethered and untethered, the 507 pound vehicle rose and hovered 33 feet in the air.  The vehicle is an electric, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) quadcopter.  The test flights, done by remote control in Istanbul, took place a year and a half after local engineers came up with the concept and started drawing designs. Technology The Cezeri is composed of large quadcopter-like blades with a small, glass enclosed pilot/passenger unit and take-off/landing gear grounded underneath.  It flies entirely on electricity.  It has eight electric motors, propellers and a rechargeable battery.  With three redundant intelligent flight systems, developers say that it will be equipped with AI systems in the future.  The goal is to have it reach a cruising speed of 62 mph, a

  Road E-Bike for Hill Climbing and Racing Source:  Lamborghini e-bike Made for the Toughness of the Italian Dolomite Alps Lamborghini, the Italian brand and manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs, just launched with Cervelo Cycles of Canada, a state-of-the-art electric road bike for climbing hills and competitive racing.  This bike is designed to raise the performance benchmarks in e-bikes and was specifically created to tackle the steepest uphill and downhill tracks in the Italian Dolomite Alps. This is the ultimate e-bike for biking enthusiasts.  It also comes at the ultimate price-point of $18,000. Very Limited Edition This e-road bike is the limited edition Cervolo Automobili Lamborghini.  There are just 63 bikes to honor the year that Lamborghini was established in 1963.  The $18,000 bike can be bought through Cervelo retailers and distributors. Celebrating Racing History The e-bike is dedicated to the Aventador SVJ, the Lamborghini racing car that set the fastest time recor

  UFO Caught On Tape Trailing the ISS                                                  Source:  NASA ISS Feed Spacecraft With Speeds of 27,000 km Per Hour NASA's live camera feed from the International Space Station (ISS)  captured, in infrared video, the speeding image of an unidentified flying object chasing the ISS,  The object was a large white orb speeding at 27,000 km per hour (16,777 mph) behind and toward the ISS.  It was visible in the live NASA feed for forty minutes.  It moved upwards, passed the ISS and then faded away.  UFO expert Scott Warring said it is proof of the existence of an alien space vehicle. Is It A Satellite, Meteorite, Unknown Spaceship from Earth or UFO? The object was first spotted leaving the Earth's atmosphere, which suggests it may have launched somewhere near the planet Earth.  It first appeared as a small dot on the screen and then flew closer and closer to the ISS.  Warring says he thinks the aliens controlling the vessel might have been tryi

  Eye-Catching ZOOX Wins California Testing Permit                                                   Source:  ZOOX ZOOX On the Road With No Human Drivers Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is aggressively expanding and investing in self-driving technology.  And, it just scored a big win in California. Amazon acquired the autonomous car maker ZOOX in June.  ZOOX just was awarded permission by California state authorities a test permit to drive its self-driving cars on the roads without a human, backup driver onboard.  As you can see in the image, the ZOOX is an eye-catching autonomous vehicle. Next Steps For ZOOX ZOOX will be testing two self-driving vehicles with no human drivers onboard on designated streets near its Foster City, California headquarters.  Other major players like Google's Alphabet parent company's Waymo, China startup AutoX and Nuno have received similar test permits that they are using to test their vehicles.  Self-driving vehicles with no human

  NASA Solicits Private Companies to Mine the Moon                                             Source:  NASA - Venus Is This The Rise of Planet Snatching? The head of the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, claims that Venus is a Russian planet.  His reasoning is that a Russian spacecraft was the first and only spacecraft to do a soft landing there.  He added Russia wants to send its own new mission to Venus in addition to an already proposed joint venture with the United States called "Venera-D". President Trump, The Planet Snatcher Rogozin is a a former deputy Prime Minister of Russia.  Several months ago, he accused President Donald Trump of planet snatching as the US started a process of developing international accords to govern mining rights and other commercialization of the Moon and planets.  Last week, NASA began seeking private companies that are part of lunar missions to provide NASA with moon dirt and moon rocks and be paid for it. Venus and Life The R

  UK's Tesco & Manno Aero Drones of Ireland Partner                                                                     Source:  Manno Aero Drone New Tech, Drone Grocery Deliveries to Start in Ireland The world's 3rd largest supermarket/retail group Tesco is partnering with Irish entrepreneur Bobby Healy and his Manno Aero drone company to test home deliveries of groceries by Manno drones, first in Ireland.  Healy's drones are currently following fast food deliveries with their drones.  Tesco is headquartered in the UK. Its CEO Dave Lewis calls drone grocery deliveries the kind of disruptive innovation he wants to do.  Manno is an accomplished drone company and has been delivering medicine during COVID in Ireland.  Tesco CEO Dave Lewis says Manno has the proven capacity to deliver goods with its drones and now he wants to apply it to Tesco operations, specifically for its grocery store customers. Next Steps - Real Fast Orders Tesco will start with delivering a few groce

  A First in the UK                                   Source:  Tesla Megapack Batteries Tesla As An Energy Provider For the first time, a Tesla UK facility composed of six huge, megapack batteries kept the lights on in Britain.  The breakthrough, renewable energy event happened this week.  The Tesla batteries helped balance electricity supply and demand and kept Britain out of the dark. Since March when the pandemic hit with full force, electricity demand in the UK has been very difficult to predict. National Grid The Tesla facility's six giant batteries store energy from renewable energy sources for use at times of peak demand.  A new computer system used by energy utility National Grid in the UK allows the company to tap into new technologies like Tesla batteries in their efforts to balance supply and demand. For National Grid, use of green renewable energy is crucial to reach their goal of operating the grid with zero carbon emissions by 2025.  Tesla As An Electric Utility Tesla