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.
Israel commits to 100 percent electric vehicles, ICE ban by 2030
From 2030, residents of Israel will no longer be able to buy cars fueled by petrol or diesel, the Israeli government has announced. Instead, only electric cars will be available for Read More...
Amsterdam's canal boats are going electric
As we glide silently up Amsterdam's busy waterways on an unseasonably warm autumn morning, boat company owner Rik Kooij, 38, admits that "canal water runs in my veins". Ever since his mechanically-minded grandfather renovated a bicycle, then a motorbike, then a boat back in the 1920s, Mr. Kooij's Read More...
Introducing the very first Hyperloop passenger capsule
The Hyperloop has long been a distant concept, but now we’ve just gotten a first glimpse of what a passenger ‘capsule’ of the Hyperloop will actually look like. Resembling high-speed trains found in Europe and Japan, the Hyperloop capsule is around 100 feet long, is able to transport up to 40 Read More...
You can hail a public bus like an Uber in this city
When it comes to transportation, cities are facing a moment of reckoning. Private ride-hailing apps like Uber are threatening to cannibalize mass Read More...
This electric zero-emissions plane powered by hydrogen will fly in 2025
While the clean electric car revolution is rapidly gathering speed, we still face a big technology test to clean up the aircraft industry. Clean planes pose a major challenge especially when they get to the jumbo sizes we have been getting used to traveling the world. But it is happening: this Read More...
California amends rules to push vehicles toward hydrogen, electricity, biofuel
California's Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced that it would tighten restrictions on transportation fuels in the state in the hopes of spurring adoption of electric, hydrogen, and biofuel-based cars, trucks, buses, and even planes. Since 2011, CARB has had a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Read More...
Ikea rolls out self-driving car concepts that don’t look like cars
Ikea just became the latest company to announce it's tinkering with self-driving cars. But don't call Ikea the next Waymo or Read More...
Uber, Lyft and the urgency of saving money on ambulances
An ambulance ride of just a few miles can cost thousands of dollars, and a lot of it may not be covered by insurance. With ride-hailing services like Uber or Lyft far cheaper and now available within minutes in many areas, would using one instead be a good idea? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer in Read More...
Elon Musk asks Tesla employees to test full self-driving version of Autopilot
The version of Autopilot that Elon Musk has long promised would make Tesla cars capable of driving themselves is reportedly being handed over to a small group of employees for testing, according to an internal email obtained by Bloomberg. In the email, Musk promised there were about 100 spots Read More...
Your next car will be self-driving—if you buy a car at all
Autonomous cars are not a theoretical, maybe-if proposition that depends on a lot of different pegs falling into place. They’re already driving Read More...