Paul Whytock

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Paul Whytock is Technology Correspondent for Electropages. He has reported extensively on the electronics industry in Europe, the United States and the Far East for over thirty years. Prior to entering journalism, he worked as a design engineer with Ford Motor Company at locations in England, Germany, Holland and Belgium.

Sodium battery technology will oust lithium in the long-term

Lithium-ion battery technology is already a major player in our lives and is set to get even bigger. According to analysts, the global market for these batteries will reach almost

08-04-2022

Life-saving tethered drones get a power and comms boost

The idea of flying a UAV tethered drone system seems incongruous at best, but the fact is that they can do a lot of things better than free-flying drones. Tethered drones are not a

25-03-2022

Smart motorways kill people but is the technology to blame?

In the past six years, over 40 people have died on UK smart motorways where there is no hard shoulder because the hard shoulder has been converted to carry live traffic. According

08-03-2022

Will SOTA updates help hackers steal your car?

The answer to that is yes, depending on the level of SOTA capability your car has and its level of communication security. But what is SOTA? Fundamentally, Software Over The Air is

09-02-2022

Part 2: Are hydrogen and electric cars on the right ecological track?

Read part one here. Petrol and diesel-powered cars are no longer a viable ecological proposition, and the race is now on between hydrogen and electric-powered vehicles. But decidin

Environment | 06-01-2022

Part I: Are hydrogen and electric cars really on the right ecological track?

Hydrogen is one of the possible fuel options that shows enormous ecological promise. Although it is, of course, colourless, the many ways of creating it have generated a whole kale

02-11-2021

Automotive chip supply optimism moves up a gear

Talk to carmakers about when the shortage of automotive electronic components will end, and you'll get a whole variety of different predictions. But one thing is clear: there is no

07-10-2021

Thinking like a human is something AI will never learn

So much has been debated about the potential power of AI (Artificial Intelligence) that there are now some humans who think it will eventually control us. I don’t believe this will

AI | 02-09-2021

Government unplugged over electric vehicles and flat on battery technologies

The UK government is nowhere near implementing sufficient electric vehicles (EVs) and related strategies if it intends to meet its much-trumpeted plan to bring the UK’s greenhouse

09-08-2021