Transportation
From autonomous EVs to electric planes, from hydrogen trains to biofuel transportation, check out the most recent developments on how we’re moving transportation towards a more sustainable future in the good news section below.
There could be an entire line of Dyson electric cars
Best known for slick-looking vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, James Dyson has already stated his intentions to tackle a completely different machine — the electric car. Now, however, the inventor is looking to build more than just a niche model as the list of EV models on sale Read More...
Top clean cars and trucks of 2018
Some of the cleanest cars you can buy today are powered by electricity, though the emissions of an electric vehicle (EV) varies depending on where it is plugged in. Even though parts of the U.S. still partially rely on coal fired power, the average EV sold in the U.S. produces the emissions Read More...
California on path to meet goal of 1.5 million electric cars, but charging stations lag behind
Buoyed by an exceptional sales year in 2017, the state’s electric vehicle market will continue to grow this year and will reach 1.5 million zero-emission vehicles by 2025, an earlier target set by Gov. Jerry Read More...
Tesla to team up with companies to build charging stations for its semi-truck
Reuters is reporting that Tesla is collaborating with several companies that have placed large orders of its Semi truck to build on-site charging stations to charge the vehicles when they’re rolled out next year. Details of the partnerships haven’t been disclosed, but they reportedly include Read More...
Hyundai’s fuel-cell cars just drove a record 118 miles without a driver
Although Hyundai doesn’t expect to commercialize fully autonomous vehicles until 2030, that’s not stopping the automaker from bringing their self-driving cars on the roads. Just last week, the South Korean carmaker had a fleet of autonomous hydrogen fuel cell cars drive themselves 118 miles Read More...
Volvo to put electric trucks on the road this year
This week, Volvo is adding itself to the list of many truck manufacturers working on electric trucks. The Swedish group says that it will bring the electric trucks to the road as soon as this year, starting with a line of medium-sized Read More...
BMW is bringing its wireless charging pad to the US
In another move to improve charging practices for plug-in electric vehicles, BMW is set to expand the availability of its wireless charging pad for one of its vehicles to the United States. Finally, no more untangling a charging cord for your Read More...
Owning an electric car is twice as cheap as owning a gas vehicle
Electric cars are generally more expensive to buy than conventional vehicles. The suggested retail price for a 2018 Nissan Leaf, the world’s best selling EV, is about $30,000 in the U.S. You can pick up a new Honda Civic 2018 for less than $19,000 (though this excludes the Read More...
Is peak car headed for Seneca’s cliff?
Two hundred people per second now climb onto a dockless bike somewhere in China; the blue dots (above) denote transactions in Shanghai. Considering that dockless bike sharing platforms were only launched two years ago, in 2015, this growth rate is remarkable. The biggest company, Mobike, Read More...
The electric vehicle market is heating up as Ford pledges $11 billion investment
Ford is going all in on electric vehicles. The American automaker started the week off by announcing that it will drastically increase its planned investments in electric vehicles to $11bn by 2022, a sharp rise from the previously announced target of $4.5bn. Ford also announced it will have 40 Read More...