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.
'Electric cars cost much less to own than gas-powered cars'
In a new study, researchers found that owning a pure electric car costs less over four years than gas or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan. Perhaps it comes as a bit of a surprise, but there are many factors that make owning an electric car cheaper. For one, electricity is cheaper than gas. Read More...
How some Tesla owners are mining bitcoins with free power from charging stations
For all the pros that Bitcoins have, there’s one con that’s particular bad: The fact that Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than all of Ireland. That’s because bitcoin mining utilizes specialized computers to churn through extremely power-intensive computing processes. In order to find Read More...
Waymo marks a major self-driving milestone
Waymo's autonomous cars have steadily rolled through test routes in multiple states over the past few years, and now the company claims it has passed a new milestone: 4 million self-driven miles logged on public roads. That makes the Waymo fleet Read More...
Shell to install rapid-charging stations across Europe
Oil-giant Shell is teaming with a Munich-based venture company to start installing charging stations in 10 European nations. The agreement will initially have charging points put in at 80 of Shell’s biggest highway fuel stations, with an average of six posts in each. Best of all, the charging Read More...
Electric roads can replace electric trucks and clean up the freight industry
Nothing is responsible for more smog-causing emissions in southern California than the trucks that haul freight between the region’s cities and ports. And these trucks may just be too big to realistically run on electric batteries like the passenger cars built by Tesla and others. One possible Read More...
This hydrogen car could be the future of transport
Automobile engineer Hugo Spowers believes that battery-powered electric vehicles won’t be the only attractive option on the market for buyers who are eco-conscious. It’s why he and his independent car company, Riversimple, have been building a lightweight hydrogen EV that emits just Read More...
Electric car sales surge 63 percent globally
Business Electric vehicles (EVs) continue to gain momentum on the world market. Global sales of electric and hybrid cars are 63 percent higher than the same quarter last year, and up 23 percent from the second quarter, according to a Read More...
India can get self-driving cars—despite its drivers, jaywalkers and cows
As global giants like Tesla, Uber, and Google take self-driving cars to the streets, Indian companies are still at the experimental stage. Earlier this year, local carmaker Tata Motors sought permission to test its driverless vehicle on Bengaluru’s Read More...
Hydrogen cars could finally take off thanks to this new method of producing H2
Part of the reason that hydrogen cars haven’t made much of an impact yet is that producing hydrogen fuel is an expensive and energy-intensive process. Now, Researchers from Spain and Norway have come up with a new method to convert methane to hydrogen with almost no loss of energy, making Read More...
'Robo-taxis' hold promise, and perils, for automakers
It's November 22, 2028 and Sarah, a young mother, gives her two children a kiss goodbye before buckling them into the driverless car that will bring them to school. Sarah doesn't have a car and has no plans to buy Read More...