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.
Sweden to get Europe's biggest car battery factory
Start-up company Northvolt said Thursday it had picked its home country Sweden to build Europe's biggest factory for electric car batteries, rivaling Tesla's American "Gigafactory". The company said it had selected Skelleftea, a coastal town in the country's industrial north-east, for the site Read More...
Welcome to first solar-powered town where you don’t need your own car anymore
A town in Florida is giving its residents a real reason to let go of their gas-powered cars. The fully solar-powered town is in the process of establishing the first autonomous network of transportation in the U.S.. Using an app, residents in the town can gain access to autonomous pods that carry Read More...
California wants to let driverless cars be tested without a human at the wheel
California is preparing to let companies test driverless cars without a human at the steering wheel. The state Department of Motor Vehicles released proposed rule revisions today (Oct. 11) that would allow testing of self-driving cars without a human in the driver’s seat. The new rules also would Read More...
How New York can use self-driving cars to unclog its streets
While most estimates suggest that it will still take decades before autonomous vehicles will be adopted, manufacturers like Ford and Tesla, alongside tech giants like Google and Uber, are neck-and-neck in the race to bring self-driving cars into the mainstream. Simply put, self-driving cars will be Read More...
GM advances stealthily into disaster relief zones with autonomous fuel cell concept
With hurricanes and disaster relief top of mind for the US government, General Motors is this week presenting military leaders with a platform design it hopes can one day help. The multi-vehicle Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS) uses a fuel cell powertrain and autonomous Read More...
Electric vehicles made up nearly half of all new cars sales in Norway last month
California is often touted as the capital of electric cars, but a new report indicates that title belongs to Norway. In the month of September, the Scandinavian country reported 6,524 new registrations of plug-in electric cars, taking a record 48.4 percent of the market share. The big surprise Read More...
Epic world solar car race kicks off in Australia
Have you ever heard of The World Solar Challenge? Its an endurance race designed to inspire innovation in solar power by having teams from all over the world design and build vehicles that are powered only by the sun, before racing them from Darwin in northern Australia to Adelaide in the south, Read More...
China hastens the world toward an electric-car future
There is a powerful reason that automakers worldwide are speeding up their efforts to develop electric vehicles — and that reason is Read More...
US Senate bill: Self-driving cars don’t need steering wheels
There is a battle going on in the halls of US congress about self-driving cars: to trust humans, or not to trust them. Less trusting legislators have seized the upper Read More...
Taking driverless taxis will cost half as much as owning a car in the future
According to a financial firm, taking self-driving taxis to get from point A to point B will be half as expensive per mile as owning a car in the future. The firm also estimates that the typical household could save about $5,875 per year by switching to self-driving taxis in the Read More...