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 vehicles made up nearly half of all new cars sales in Norway last month
California is often touted as the capital of electric cars, but a new report indicates that title belongs to Norway. In the month of September, the Scandinavian country reported 6,524 new registrations of plug-in electric cars, taking a record 48.4 percent of the market share. The big surprise Read More...
Epic world solar car race kicks off in Australia
Have you ever heard of The World Solar Challenge? Its an endurance race designed to inspire innovation in solar power by having teams from all over the world design and build vehicles that are powered only by the sun, before racing them from Darwin in northern Australia to Adelaide in the south, Read More...
China hastens the world toward an electric-car future
There is a powerful reason that automakers worldwide are speeding up their efforts to develop electric vehicles — and that reason is Read More...
US Senate bill: Self-driving cars don’t need steering wheels
There is a battle going on in the halls of US congress about self-driving cars: to trust humans, or not to trust them. Less trusting legislators have seized the upper Read More...
Taking driverless taxis will cost half as much as owning a car in the future
According to a financial firm, taking self-driving taxis to get from point A to point B will be half as expensive per mile as owning a car in the future. The firm also estimates that the typical household could save about $5,875 per year by switching to self-driving taxis in the Read More...
The hydrogen fuel cell secret behind GM's big EV announcement
GM sent a ripple across the web on Monday with the attention-grabbing announcement of its “path to zero emissions” plan, which includes an impressive lineup of at least 20 electric vehicles by 2023. To the casual observer, that means a head-on collision with Tesla, but GM adds an interesting Read More...
Electric car owners 'can drive for free by letting energy firms use battery'
Electric car owners will be paid for letting an energy company use their vehicle’s battery in a pioneering scheme to increase take-up of the cleaner vehicles and help power grids manage the growth in green Read More...
Autonomous vehicles will completely change your relationship with cars
Vehicles may be faster and more eco-friendly than when they were first invented, but the basic blueprint has remained the same: They’ve always been boxes with four wheels operated by a human steering the wheel. With autonomous vehicles on the horizon, though, we can expect our relationship with Read More...
China is making it harder to produce fossil fuel cars
China announced today that carmakers who want to produce fossil fuel-powered cars must first obtain a new energy vehicle score by producing zero-emission and low-emission cars, as first reported by Bloomberg. The new rule applies to automakers who make or import over 30,000 fossil fuel cars a Read More...
Forget vacuums, Dyson is going to start making electric cars
Dyson had made a name for itself by inventing all sorts of new approaches to vacuuming your house, and now it seems that the company is looking to innovate in a whole new “clean” industry. This week, founder James Dyson announced that his company is making a major play in the electric car Read More...