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.
Sleek and cheap: This electric city car has a range of 185 miles
After a successful crowdfunding campaign, a Swedish car company has created a new electric city car that will be sold for as low as €14,900 ($17,483 US). So what’s the catch? Looking at the car’s specs, apparently there isn’t one. The city vehicle can drive up to 185 miles via its small Read More...
Lyft is now offering rides in self-driving cars in a major US city
Lyft has begun offering self-driving rides in Boston. The autonomous vehicles have human backup drivers ready to take the wheel if any problems Read More...
Your insurance premiums will drop once self-driving cars hit the roads
Research and computer modeling indicates that as many as 23 million fully autonomous vehicles will be traveling US highways by 2045. This rapid growth of autonomous vehicles will involve a major shift, not only in our driving habits and patterns but in the ownership of vehicles. If auto Read More...
America’s electric vehicle market is proving to be a competitive one
When you think of electric cars, Tesla is probably the first one to come to mind. The US electric vehicle market, however, isn’t completely dominated by one company. In fact, the Chevy Bolt is currently the best-selling electric vehicle, having outsold all other contenders last month, including Read More...
VW's Moia wheels out an electric six-seater for the ride-sharing era
One year ago at TechCrunch Disrupt in London, Volkswagen launched a dedicated company focused on future mobility services called Moia. At this year's TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin, the spin-off has unveiled its very first vehicle, an all-electric Read More...
'Electric cars cost much less to own than gas-powered cars'
In a new study, researchers found that owning a pure electric car costs less over four years than gas or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan. Perhaps it comes as a bit of a surprise, but there are many factors that make owning an electric car cheaper. For one, electricity is cheaper than gas. Read More...
How some Tesla owners are mining bitcoins with free power from charging stations
For all the pros that Bitcoins have, there’s one con that’s particular bad: The fact that Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than all of Ireland. That’s because bitcoin mining utilizes specialized computers to churn through extremely power-intensive computing processes. In order to find Read More...
Waymo marks a major self-driving milestone
Waymo's autonomous cars have steadily rolled through test routes in multiple states over the past few years, and now the company claims it has passed a new milestone: 4 million self-driven miles logged on public roads. That makes the Waymo fleet Read More...
Shell to install rapid-charging stations across Europe
Oil-giant Shell is teaming with a Munich-based venture company to start installing charging stations in 10 European nations. The agreement will initially have charging points put in at 80 of Shell’s biggest highway fuel stations, with an average of six posts in each. Best of all, the charging Read More...
Electric roads can replace electric trucks and clean up the freight industry
Nothing is responsible for more smog-causing emissions in southern California than the trucks that haul freight between the region’s cities and ports. And these trucks may just be too big to realistically run on electric batteries like the passenger cars built by Tesla and others. One possible Read More...