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.
Twelve things you need to know about driverless cars
From forecourt to scrapyard, a new car in the UK lasts an average of 13.9 years, which is why if you got one today, it might very well be the last car you buy. Over the next decade, accelerating autonomous driving technology, including advances in artificial intelligence, sensors, cameras, radar Read More...
How BlaBlaCar created a global transport network
A rail strike is a strange time to realise that your start-up is going to be a success but that was the moment that the founders of BlaBlaCar knew that their company was going to take off. BlaBlaCar is the French online ride-sharing company that pairs people travelling between cities with drivers Read More...
China, Europe drive shift to electric cars as U.S. lags
DETROIT Electric cars will pick up critical momentum in 2017, many in the auto industry believe - just not in North America. Tighter emissions rules in China and Europe leave global carmakers and some consumers with little choice but to embrace plug-in vehicles, fuelling an investment surge, said Read More...
Your next car wants to be your best friend
Behold that bonkers styling—the fluorescent stripes on the floorboards, the avant-garde high-design shell. Toyota's Concept-i certainly looks the part of a hyper-futuristic concept car. But the real star of the show is the ghost in the machine. Its name is Yui, and it wants to be your bestie. Read More...
How robot cars learn to drive without leaving the garage
The computers that control self-driving cars are gaining valuable knowledge about the real world in some surprising ways—including browsing online maps and playing video games. Researchers at Princeton University recently developed a computer vision and mapping system that gathered useful Read More...
China's anti-Teslas: cheap models drive electric car boom
More electric cars are sold in China than in the rest of the world combined, but are mainly locally-branded models that are cheaper and have a shorter range than those offered by foreign automakers such as Tesla and Nissan. The Chinese-branded electric vehicle (EV) market is propped up by huge Read More...
Solar-powered electric buses ‒ a UK first
Unlike conventional buses, the new Big Lemon Buses project uses an innovative combination of three renewable technologies to generate clean energy during the day, store it in a battery and then charge up the new solar buses overnight More articles about Fire, snow and mist: resilience and the way Read More...
How electric trucks will shape the auto transport industry
January 10th, 2017 by EV Expert  Diesel-powered engines have garnered a reputation for their nasty emissions. Nitrous oxides may contribute to asthma and shortened life spans. Particulates are also bad for lungs and other living tissue. Of course, we cannot forget about the pollutant carbon Read More...
Volkswagen taps hippie heritage with an electric microbus
Volkswagen unveiled a battery-powered version of its iconic hippie-era Microbus as the carmaker overhauls its North American lineup to move beyond its emissions-cheating scandal. The latest iteration of the van, a concept dubbed the I.D. Buzz, is part of the VW brand’s strategy to deliver one Read More...
Google just made a big move to bring down the cost of self-driving cars
Google parent company Alphabet just made a big move to bring its self-driving car tech to market cheaper and faster. Alphabet-owned company Waymo has slashed the price of lidar, a key component of self-driving cars that helps them see the world, by 90%, Waymo CEO John Krafcik said during a keynote Read More...