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.
For the first time, a Chinese car is coming to the US—and it’s electric
China wants to play in America’s car market. While US sales have plateaued around 17.2 million per year, it’s one of the most lucrative on the planet (and second in size only to the 28.88 million sold in China last Read More...
No new non-zero emission cars sold in Ireland beyond 2030, says government
The Irish government has said that no new non-zero emission cars will be sold in Ireland beyond 2030. In its bid to tackle climate change, a target of having 500,000 electric vehicles on the road in the same year has been set and no NCT will be issued for non-zero emission cars Read More...
The Boring Company unveiled its first test tunnel in Los Angeles
Elon Musk’s Boring Company that is set to help alleviate off-putting traffic congestions has cut the ribbon to its first test tunnel. One of the company’s main missions is to cut the costs and time involved in burrowing holes through the ground in order to build a network of traffic-busting Read More...
Over 500,000 electric cars in California!
In November of this year, the number of electric cars sold in California reached over 512,000, according to Veloz, a non-profit organization that is working to support the transition to electric vehicles. The organization’s board members are from companies like BMW, Lyft, and Uber, utilities like Read More...
Southern Hemisphere's first all-electric passenger ferry to be built in New Zealand
A $4 million fully electric and zero emission passenger ferry set to be built in New Zealand will be the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Construction on the 19m long vessel will start over the next few months and it will be ready for service in Wellington next Read More...
Batteries that could let electric cars drive twice as far just got closer
In 2010, a pair of MIT materials scientists helped launch 24M, promising to deliver cheaper, better batteries by stripping out inactive materials in the Read More...
California says all city buses have to be emission free by 2040
On the heels of a dire government report published last month about climate change and its devastating impacts, many cities and states are scrambling to find ways to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten their air quality, not to mention their Read More...
Hydrokinetic energy from running water cleanly charges electrical vehicles
Lif-E-Buoy takes advantage of the natural hydrokinetic energy of running water—abundantly available in most river-based urban centres—to generate clean energy for electric vehicles and infrastructure. EU-supported for the lif-E-Buoy project has enabled researchers to undertake a feasibility Read More...
Why aren't school buses electric? These Coloradans are sick of diesel
Before her two kids returned to school at the end of last summer, Lorena Osorio stood before the Westminster, Colorado, school board and gave heartfelt testimony about raising her asthmatic son, now a student at the local high school. "My son was only three years old when he first suffered from Read More...
Chinese company says it will soon cross $100 battery threshold
Envision Energy will produce batteries for $100 per kilowatt hour by 2020, the Shanghai company’s founder and CEO said at Stanford University, predicting the price will drop to $50 only five years later and end the reign of the internal-combustion engine. Envision’s analysts realized they Read More...