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.
Japan now has more electric car charge points than petrol stations
When it comes to electric vehicles, Japan is speeding ahead of the rest of the world, blissfully free of the range anxiety that afflicts plug-in drivers elsewhere. The country now has more electric car charging stops than petrol stations, according to a recent survey by Nissan. The Japanese Read More...
GM, Lyft to test self-driving electric taxis
General Motors Co. 0.42 % and Lyft Inc. within a year will begin testing a fleet of self-driving Chevrolet Bolt electric taxis on public roads, a move central to the companies’ joint efforts to challenge Silicon Valley giants in the battle to reshape the auto industry. The plan is being Read More...
Electric cars will induce the inevitable oil collapse much sooner than you think
When it comes to forecasting the future, most models use linear projections based on current data. However, as history shows, change almost never happens according to linear models. The carriages were not gradually replaced by the automobile and computers and mobile phones did not find their places Read More...
Nissan announces record EV fleet sales in Europe in 2015
Nissan’s EV sales in the European fleet market rose for a fourth consecutive year in 2015, showing a 45% gain from the previous fiscal year. Nissan sold more than 7,500 LEAFs and e-NV200s to fleet operators and municipalities in Europe, commanding a 28% share of the pure electric fleet Read More...
Google partners with Fiat Chrysler to develop self-driving cars
For the first time, Google is working together directly with an automaker to integrate its self-driving system, including its sensors and software, into a passenger vehicle. Google and Fiat Chrysler announced that they will build a fleet of 100 self-driving minivans in the most advanced Read More...
The Self-Driving Car of the Future Comes With … a Bookshelf
One of the most exciting things about the coming age of autonomous driving is all the ways it will free designers from constraints like forward-facing seats, a steering wheel, and the need to pay attention. Connected car company Harman and automotive design firm Rinspeed explore this new freedom in Read More...
Ditch the bus: Self-driving electric golf carts are ferrying students on university campuses
Google guesses it will be 30 years or more before truly autonomous vehicles can drive anywhere on public roads. Shortening that timeline means improving the technology, or simplifying the environment. Auro Robotics is choosing the latter. The three-year-old startup is starting to deploy autonomous Read More...
Ford plans long-range electric car to compete with Tesla, GM
Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce a long-range electric vehicle to compete with battery-powered models coming from Tesla Motors Inc. and General Motors Co. that would go 200 miles or more on a charge. “Our approach, very simply, is we want to make sure that we’re either among the Read More...
Austria joins countries aiming for rapid ban gas and diesel cars
In recent weeks India, The Netherlands, and Norway have announced that they are considering banning sales of new non-electric cars from 2025 onwards. Now there are reports that Austria is joining this group and it wants to get even sooner to the all-electric car era: in 2020. The news underlines an Read More...
Google partners Uber on driverless cars
Google has formed a coalition with carmakers and taxi-hailing companies to help steer the regulations needed to make self-drive cars a reality. Including Ford, Volvo, Uber and Lyft, it will lobby lawmakers and regulators on some of the legal barriers. Former US National Highway Traffic Safety Read More...