A big tech change will happen next year.
The Texas blackouts caused by the severe winter storm caused havoc for millions of residents earlier this year. But never let a crisis go to waste, as the old saying goes. New Ford F-150 owners realized their trucks Power Boost generator could serve as a temporary solution to get some electricity running inside their homes. The automaker even asked Texas Ford dealerships to lend out F-150s with this onboard generator to those in desperate situations. If a combustion-engined truck with a generator can help save the day, a pure battery-electric can do the same, right? Absolutely.
And this year marks half a century between the two.
When you think of electric vehicles, you probably imagine something like the Tesla Model 3. These days, the electric car is becoming more and more popular, which has led to almost every major manufacturer working on their own versions of the car of the future. Even the maker of notoriously unreliable British sports cars, MG, has started work on a new EV, but what you may not have realized is that the electric vehicle is part of mankind s history of exploring space, and 2021 marks 50 years since humans first drove a car on the moon, two years on from 1969 when one giant leap for mankind was taken.