Une date est enfin annoncée pour Artémis 1. La Nasa a annoncé que la première mission du programme américain de retour sur la Lune pourrait décoller dès le 29 août. Deux dates alternatives sont possibles : le 2 ou le 5 septembre, a également précisé l'agence spatiale. L'annonce a opportunément été faite le jour anniversaire de l'atterrissage de la mission Apollo 11 sur la Lune, le 20 juillet 1969. Plus d'un demi-siècle plus tard, le programme Artémis doit marquer le retour des Américains sur cet astre, dont la première femme et la première personne de couleur.
The rapidly increasing uptake of electric vehicles could transform the automotive ecosystem and promote even greater innovations. For that to happen, two imperatives need attention now
I usually start with steel prices and lead times. But I’d like to start with demand this time, because, Houston, we have a problem.
About 40% of people responding to the last survey from the Steel Market Update (SMU) reported decreasing demand. That’s the highest reading we’ve seen in our surveys since the outset of the pandemic in spring 2020.
An Automotive Regions Alliance has been created to support a fair and successful mobility transition for European regions, guaranteeing that no region is left behind.
The new alliance was officially launched during the June Plenary Session of the European Committee of the Regions, in the presence of Nicolas Schmit, European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights.
The European Union’s executive body has urged member states to slash their gas consumption by 15%, as it warned that a complete shutdown of Russian supplies was “likely”.
The EU has been scrambling to wean itself off Russian gas since the invasion of Ukraine, but is alarmed about a potential energy crisis this winter.
An increasing number of workers and business owners in the US are looking to a small town in northern Spain as a model to tackle wealth and income inequality.
The 22,000-person town of Mondragon in Spain’s Basque region is home to the world’s largest worker cooperative network, called Mondragon Corporation. Founded half a century ago by a priest and some of his acolytes, the co-ops have found a way, crisis after crisis, to keep unemployment and income inequality in check.
La reforma de la Ley de Extranjería, que introduce cambios para facilitar que miles de extranjeros entren el mercado de trabajo, está en su recta final. El Consejo de Estado ha enviado ya su dictamen favorable al real decreto. Lo ha hecho a pesar del rechazo del Ministerio del Interior a que el proyecto saliese adelante porque podría promover un efecto llamada.
BMW CEO Oliver Zipse recently shared a warning about the auto sector’s impending retirement of the internal combustion engine. According to the executive, a premature end to the internal combustion engine would not be preferable, and it probably won’t be good for the environment either.
