Siemens

In the ever-shifting winds of "who-did-it-bigger?," China has just taken a back seat to European wind company Siemens Gamesa. The firm recently planted a colossal, world-record-setting turbine in the Østerild test field in Denmark.

A prototype wind turbine has recorded an extraordinary single-day renewable energy production total, bringing in a massive 359 megawatt-hours in a 24-hour time period. To get there, it had to operate over its rated capacity, essentially all day long.

A street in the City of Westminster in London has been dubbed Electric Avenue, W9 after Siemens and Ubitricity installed EV charging points in streetlamps, making it the first in the UK where all of its streetlamps have been given double duty.

​After first being commissioned by the German state of Hesse in August 2017 to build a stretch of electrified highway along the Autobahn, Siemens has now added the finishing touches to the system and fired it up for the first time.

​The world’s first autonomous tram entered operation last week, albeit as part of an initial demonstration showcasing its AI-powered driving capabilities, taking to the tracks in the east German city of Potsdam.

At the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Siemens announced that they are pooling their resources to build the near-term E-Fan X hybrid-electric technology demonstrator based on a BAE Systems 146 flying testbed and slated to fly in 2020.

After launching the first public highway trials in Sweden last year, Siemens has now taken its "eHighway of the Future" concept to the US. A mile-long stretch of road in California has had an overhead catenary system installed, to power the electric drives of three hybrid freight haulers.

​Siemens first revealed its eHighway concept back in 2012, where a hybrid diesel/electric truck moving down a stretch of road could raise its pantograph to overhead power lines and roll along on electric power only. Now similar plans have been revealed for a 10 km stretch of Germany's A5 autobahn.​

Siemens has just announced that an electric aerobatic plane powered by its latest motor has nabbed two world speed records. The Extra 330LE electric test plane also became the first in the world to tow a glider up into the skies.

After three years of construction work, Siemens has moved into its new headquarters in Munich, Germany. It has apparently cut its annual CO2 emissions by the equivalent of 5.6 million km of air travel, consumes 90 percent less electricity than Siemen's previous HQ and uses 75 percent less water.​

A research team working in the Siemens Robotic Labs at Princeton, New Jersey, has developed what are essentially autonomous 3D printers with legs, which could work together to manufacture complex structures such hulls of ships or the fuselage of an airplane.

Researchers working at Siemens say that they have produced a light but powerful prototype electric aircraft motor that could one day help power large passenger airliners. Weighing in at just 50 kg (110 lb) the new motor is claimed to produce about 260 kW (348 hp) at 2,500 RPM.