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.
Daimler boss tells German Greens he shares vision of zero-emission cars
The chairman of Germany's largest luxury carmaker, Daimler-Benz, braved boos and a frosty reception as guest speaker at a Greens party congress on Sunday to tell delegates he too wants CO2-free cars on the roads. Dieter Zetsche, whose company is demonized by many Greens, said the firm had not Read More...
Renault plans to produce a $8,000 mass market electric car by 2018
Within the next two years, Renault-Nissan plans to produce an electric car costing $8,000 or less. The car would be one of the cheapest electric cars on the market and would help to make electric vehicles available to anyone. The company hopes the car will help to capture the lucrative Chinese Read More...
Faraday Future just shared a glimpse of its first real electric car
Faraday Future released another video Wednesday of the electric car it will show at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The most recent video focuses on the car's wheels and includes a tagline that reads "who said don't reinvent the wheel?" Faraday Future released another video in late Read More...
Tesla enters EU and ramps up production with purchase of German Engineering company
Tesla has added another piece to the puzzle in its quest to bring electric cars to the whole world. The electric carmaker has agreed to buy German’s Grohmann Engineering group, which develops automated manufacturing systems for batteries and fuel cells. The acquisition will help Tesla expand its Read More...
Tesla likely to add solar power roofs to cars
In a Twitter exchange today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will likely add solar charging technology to the roofs of future all-electric cars. "We will probably offer that as an option," Musk wrote in the Twitter exchange with Tesla enthusiasts. In answer to one enthusiast who doubted the Read More...
Toyota, in about-face, may mass-produce long-range electric cars
Toyota looking at mass-producing long-range electric vehicles (EVs) that would hit the market around 2020, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday, in what would be a dramatic reversal in strategy for the world's top-selling automaker. Even as rivals such as Nissan Motor Co and Volkswagen AG have Read More...
US electric car sales up 26% through October
US electric car sales continue to trend up, even despite many buyers holding out for a coming Chevy Bolt or Tesla Model 3. Not much has changed at the top of the leaderboard, but note that I’ve updated historical Tesla sales to represent much-higher-than-anticipated US Model S sales. Based on Read More...
Airbus is building flying taxis so that it can become the Uber of the skies
Tech giants are starting to turn their attention to "flying cars." Uber released a 98-page white paper last week outlining its plans to bring "flying cars" to commuters by 2026. Google co-founder Larry Page is also funding a "flying car" project through a start-up named Zee.Aero, and its Read More...
All you need to know about our driverless future
This September, Uber, the app-summoned taxi service, launched a fleet of driverless Volvos and Fords in the city of Pittsburgh. While Google has had its own autonomous vehicles on the roads of Mountain View, California, Austin, Texas, Kirkland, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona, for a few years, Read More...
Driving from coast to coast in U.S. in an electric car is about to get easier
The U.S. federal government will designate 48 routes as electric charging corridors to allow coast-to-coast travel and encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, the White House said Thursday. The routes—determined by the U.S. Department of Transportation—will cover 25,000 miles in 35 Read More...