Toyota is promoting Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky President Susan Elkington to lead EV component manufacturing in North America. Truck engineering chief Mike Sweers will lead North American R&D and be chief technology officer.
Notable Champions of Diversity program will recognize those who have made significant efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and their community during the last several years.
The astronomical library of images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has now added Saturn to its card catalog.
NASA posted details about the image of the sixth planet from the sun captured by the telescope’s NIRCam instrument on June 25.
It shows the gas ball of the planet in dark orange and brown, but its rings lit up in the rendering of the planet that was monochrome, but color-enhanced with an orange hue to help illustrate the details of what was the space telescope’s first full near-infrared image of the planet.
The dark center is due to methane gas absorbing sunlight, while the icy rings stay bright along with three small dots visible to the left of the planet that are Saturn moons Dione, Enceladus and Tethys, according to NASA’s post.
Webb’s observations are part of an effort to look for new, faint moons around the planet and its rings.
About a decade ago, scientists knew of only 62 moons, but that number has as of May this year grown to 124, according to the NASA Solar System Exploration site. Its largest moon, Titan, is larger than both Mercury and Pluto.
Volvo has hired a “digital-first business leader” to help it transition into generating half of its global sales online by 2025. Saegh-Fleming will be based at Volvo’s U.S. headquarters in Mahwah, N.J.
The deal comes at a time when automakers are investing billions in EVs and rushing to develop batteries — which represent up to 50 percent of an EV’s price tag — that can power an automobile for a longer duration.