🚘 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.
🚢 Long supply chains can make companies more efficient
Complex supply chains provide opportunities for more innovations in more places and can offer consumers lower prices and even increase countries' GDP.
🛫 First crewed SSTO spacecraft to take off soon
The technology of the 90's was insufficient to make the holy grail of spacecraft possible. A startup has now received economic backing to make the first Single Stage to Orbit spaceplane.
🛰 Swedish startup to to test Microsat propulsion system
Satellites are getting smaller and cheaper to launch. To prevent these satellites from becoming debris and to extend their expected life, a Swedish startup has developed a novel propulsion system.
🚘 Smart roads to revolutionize travel
Within the European C-Roads project, technologies for intelligent transport are being tested in Italy on the A22 highway: autonomous driving systems and data communication vehicle-to-vehicle and to infrastructure
🏎 Toyota announce bold electric strategy: 30 EV's to launch before 2030
The largest car manufacturer in the world has previously expressed scepticism towards EV's. In an unprecedented move, they've announced that they'll ad 30 EV's to their range by 2030.
☀️ Towards self-sufficiency in electric mobility with Solar Cars
Time has come to move beyond the traditional model of electric car charging from the grid. Lightyear One plans to deliver the first high-range – potentially self-sufficient – solar car next summer.
🚗New AI technology provides safer self-driving cars
By giving AI a little more "common sense", an international research team wants to give us self-driving cars that can better predict what will happen in traffic.
🛩 Onboarding has begun for electric airplanes
If we are serious about tackling climate change, it is time to embrace transportation with a smaller footprint on the environment. Vincent Roose explains how flying with electricity is the next big leap in aviation.
🚗 New cable could have charging done in five minutes
A liquid-cooled cable makes it possible to charge electric cars much quicker.