🚘 Transportation
Transportation in all forms and sizes are getting cleaner and the vehicles are self-driving. We for example cover electric cars, airplanes and trucks but also drones and all kinds of autonomous vehicles.
🛩️ Self-flying plane crosses the US without the pilot needing to step in
An aircraft equipped with Joby Aviation's autonomy technology flew more than 3,100 miles across the United States without the pilot on board needing to intervene at any point. The aircraft handled taxiing, takeoff, navigation and landing on its own throughout the journey.
💥 Driverless cars crash 68 percent less than human drivers
Waymo's driverless robotaxis were involved in 68 percent fewer crashes and 81 percent fewer injury crashes than human drivers, an independent study from IIHS shows. Automatic emergency braking that recognizes pedestrians cuts pedestrian crashes by 27 percent and rear-end crashes by 50 percent.
🚇 Delhi's subway has grown past New York's and cost less than one of New York's tunnels
In March, Delhi's subway became longer than New York's, at a total cost of roughly $10 billion, less than New York spent to build a 3.5-mile tunnel. The system is 33 percent solar-powered, captures brake energy in batteries, and 99.9 percent of its trains ran on time last year.
🚕 Tesla's taxi without a steering wheel or pedals is now running in Austin
Unlike competitors Waymo and Zoox, which combine cameras with radar and lidar, Tesla builds the entire system on cameras. The company has 45 Cybercabs registered with the Texas motor vehicle authority and a total of 256 robotaxis operating without safety drivers across six cities.
🚗 Electric car sales rise again and set records in 50 countries
Electric car sales rose 4 percent in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same quarter last year, while total global car sales fell by around 5 percent in the first half of the year.
🌏 Global greenhouse gas emissions have almost stopped growing
Emissions rose 0.2 percent compared with the first half of 2025. Between 2015 and 2023, they grew by an average of 1.1 percent per year. China and the United States, the world's two largest emitters, saw their emissions fall by 0.3 and 0.4 percent respectively.
🚗 Transport emissions are falling in Australia, thanks to EVs
Australia's transport emissions fell for the second consecutive year outside the pandemic, driven by growing EV sales and lower petrol consumption. The country's total greenhouse gas emissions dropped 2.1 percent in 2025 and are now 24.5 percent below 2005 levels.
🛩️ The world's largest electric hybrid aircraft has flown for the first time – the electricity cost five dollars
Heart Aerospace has flown the X1 demonstrator, the largest battery-electric aircraft ever and as large as a regional airliner. The electricity for the flight cost about $5. The X1 is the forerunner of the 30-seat ES-30.
🚗 Electric car sales in Latin America have gone from near zero to rapid growth
Five years ago, almost no one in Latin America bought an electric car. In Colombia, electric cars now account for 10 percent of new car sales. In Mexico, the share rose from 2 to 7 percent in a single year.