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The family of Quentin Willson, television presenter and producer, motoring journalist, author, and campaigner, wish to announce that he passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday 8th November, following a short battle with lung cancer. He was 68. A true national treasure, Quentin brought the joy of motoring, from combustion to electric, into our living rooms. He helped shape the original Top Gear as one of its first hosts, working alongside Jeremy Clarkson and the team who took the pioneering show global.

Let's begin with a birds-eye view. Progress has been better than many imagined, but also too slow to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. By the end of 2024, on average about 13.5 percent of all the low-emissions technologies required for 2050 had been deployed. This was a few percentage points more than two years earlier. But it was also roughly half of what is needed to keep warming "well below" 2°C.

Mazda Motor Corp. rolled out a new, flatter version of its logo at the Japan Mobility Show 2025 in October that did away with the dimensional, beveled silver chrome effect the logomark used to have in favor of a solid black line. The new M mark is more angular, too, evoking a pair of wings that was first introduced in 1997. The company says it designed the flat new logo for improved visibility, especially in digital environments. That also makes it late to the party.

While most details about Ferrari's Elettrica EV, including its appearance and price, remain a mystery ahead of a planned launch in the spring of 2026, the company said it will go from 0 to 62 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds; have a battery with a capacity of 122 kWh to ensure recharging in as little as eight minutes; and boast a range of 323 miles on one charge. In other words, the company is promising the kind of excellence aficionados expect from Ferrari, beloved since 1947 when it started making cars renowned for their beauty, slick engineering and mind-boggling speed, both on streets and racetracks.

Renewable energy has grown faster than every major forecast predicted in 2015. There's now four times as much solar power as the International Energy Agency (IEA) expected 10 years ago. Last year alone, the world installed 553 gigawatts of solar power-roughly as much as 100 million U.S. homes use-which is 1,500% more than the IEA had projected. Investors are now pouring twice as much into renewables as into fossil fuels.

Eilyan Bitar, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in Cornell Engineering; the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics; and Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, are recipients of funding from Phase II of the Bezos Earth Fund's AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge.

The heavily updated 2027 Chevrolet Bolt made a surprise appearance at the GM Forward event in New York this week. It could easily be mistaken for the old Bolt, but under the skin, it adds new batteries, better fast-charging, modern software and a Tesla-style charging port. The updated Bolt goes on sale early next year with a $28,995 price tag, making it America's cheapest new EV.