Tag: Transportation

2024-09-13

Boeing faces strike threat as workers vote on new contract

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A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is assembled at the Boeing Renton Factory in Renton, Washington, on June 25, 2024. Jennifer Buchanan | Afp | Getty Images Boeing workers are voting on a new labor contract Thursday, setting up the potential for a crippling strike that the company’s CEO said would jeopardize the struggling plane-maker’s recovery. The tentative agreement that…

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2024-09-10

Norfolk Southern probing CEO Alan Shaw over workplace relationship

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Alan Shaw, CEO, Norfolk Southern Scott Mlyn | CNBC Norfolk Southern’s board is examining allegations that CEO Alan Shaw engaged in an inappropriate workplace relationship, according to three people familiar with the matter. The company confirmed late Sunday evening it was probing Shaw over “possible conduct” that violated the company’s code of ethics and that it had hired outside…

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2024-09-08

The $100,000 electric truck market is here

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Fronts of the GMC Sierra Denali,Tesla Cybertruck and Ford F-150 Lightning EVs (left to right). Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – Tesla, General Motors, Rivian Automotive and Ford Motor have created a new market in the U.S. automotive industry of pricey, powerful and precarious electric pickup trucks that sell for $100,000 or more. Just five years ago, the idea of…

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2024-09-08

Boeing Starliner returns to Earth empty, months later than planned

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In this image from video provided by NASA, the unmanned Boeing Starliner capsule undocks as it pulls away from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. NASA | Via AP Boeing‘s Starliner undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, months later than the spacecraft was originally supposed to depart — and without the two astronauts that…

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2024-09-07

Why airlines like American are scrambling to make engines last longer

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TULSA, Okla. — Parts and labor shortages. Delayed deliveries of new airplanes from Boeing and Airbus. An engine recall. Premature repairs. It’s all piling up, and aircraft engine shops around the world are overflowing.  As travelers boarded planes in record numbers this summer, airline executives waited anxiously for repairs and overhauls of their engines. The repair and overhaul of…

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2024-08-27

Boeing Starliner returning empty, NASA to use SpaceX to get astronauts

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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the hatch connecting Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station on NASA Boeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June, the agency announced on Saturday. With Starliner coming back to Earth empty, NASA will…

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2024-08-24

How hydrogen could change the future of space exploration

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Two Japanese companies have teamed up to achieve one big goal: producing hydrogen on the moon.  Takasago Thermal Engineering has designed a mini electrolyzer that can adapt to low gravity and endure a rocket’s intense vibrations during liftoff. Once in space, the hydrogen-making machine will be operated remotely from ispace’s Mission Control Center in Tokyo.  “We started to study…

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2024-08-23

GM-owned Cruise will partner with Uber to offer driverless rides

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A Cruise autonomous taxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2023.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber Technologies and General Motors’ Cruise have agreed to a multi-year partnership, under which the embattled autonomous vehicle company plans to offer driverless rides to Uber users as soon as next year. The Thursday announcement comes as…

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