Rolls-Royce all-electric aircraft completes maiden flight in Britain
- The first all-electric aircraft Rolls-Royce has ever produced has completed its first flight for about 15 minutes in the United Kingdom this week
- According to information by Rolls-Royce, they say the plane is the “Spirit of Innovation” and it uses a 400-kilowatt electric powertrain
- In the future, the company wants the top speed of the aircraft to exceed 300 miles per hour
New jobs added as Ford ramps up production of electric F-150 with reservations above 150K
- According to Ford, in a statement on September 16, it plans to invest an additional $250 million into adding 450 jobs across its three Michigan facilities
- Ford has now invested around $950 million into the production of a hybrid F-150 and the electric F-150 lighting scheduled to go on sale around $40,000
- Since its debut in May, more than 150,000 reservations have been made for the F-150 Lightning, says Ford
Agot AI to use computer vision to get fast-food orders made accurately
- A restaurant tech start-up called Agot AI has closed a seed funding with Continental Grain, Frit Ventures, and the Kitchen Fund worth $10 million
- The technology they plan to implement uses overhead cameras in restaurant kitchens which utilize computer vision to check the accuracy of food orders as they are prepared
