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That’s how many active users the ChatGPT AI software had after just two months, making the program the fastest-growing computer application in IT history.

battery-electric passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, and plug-in-hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) were registered in January 2024 worldwide. That’s an increase of 63 % versus the same month of the previous year and equates to a 16-percent market share of new registrations.

is produced by a pair of leather shoes from the extraction of the raw materials to disposal – depending on who you ask and how the calculations are made. It becomes obvious: Calculating a CO2 footprint has its pitfalls.

That’s how much Schaeffler will gradually purchase from Swedish company H2 Green Steel, starting in 2026. The start-up relies on steel production using green hydrogen.

That’s the anticipated global sales volume of Data-as-a-Service in 2028, according to analysts at Mordor Intelligence. That would be more than twice the 2023 volume of around 17.3 billion dollars. Especially the Asia-Pacific market is growing rapidly in this area.

This is, according to Prof. Günther Schuh from RWTH Aachen University, how long the useful life of electric cars could be in the future. The current average in Germany is 11.3 years.

of the current mountains of waste are disposed of in appropriate facilities, according to the UN, the rest somewhere else, e.g. 37 million tons of plastic waste per year in the sea.

This world altitude record for cars was set by a Porsche 911 equipped with the Schaeffler Space Drive system

make the Fenghuoshan Tunnel the highest-altitude tunnel in the world. It’s part of the Lhasa Line which was inaugurated in 2006 and connects the People’s Republic of China with autonomous Tibet.

of all fatal aircraft crashes occur during final approach and landing. The takeoff phase (start, climb) accounts for 21 %.