🚘 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-propelled boat ready to cross the Atlantic
Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionize all kinds of vehicles. Self-propelled boats, which navigate using loads of sensors and AI, can be a common sight in the not-too-distant future. Soon the maiden voyage takes place for one of them.
🛫 Air travel will also go electric
"It's impossible!" the pessimists say about electric airplanes. Anders Forslund and Klara Andreasson seem not to have heard them. Because in a hangar outside of Gothenburg, they are building a commercial 19 passenger electric airplane.
🔋 Tesla cuts battery cost by 56% and promises $25,000 car
On Battery Day Tesla announced major breakthroughs that lead to 56 percent cheaper batteries with a 54 percent better range. This makes it possible to produce a $25,000 car, making it more affordable to buy and own an electric car than one with an internal combustion engine.
🚁 Drones are tested for critical societal functions in sparsely populated areas
EDIS is the project that primarily works to improve the conditions for community service and transport in areas with large distances and limited access to critical community functions.
🐥 Flying cars will soon be a reality over Tokyo
In movies about the future, there have almost always been flying cars. Developments in drones, batteries and artificial intelligence are now opening up for it to become a reality.
♻️ Fisker: "Here is the world's most sustainable car"
The investments in electric cars continue and the car company, Fisker, with the goal of creating the world's most sustainable car is next in line.
🏎️ Self-driving cars shapes up to be a three-way race
Is the self-driving race shaping up like the smartphone race, with two or three dominating software systems and many hardware makers? It sure looks like it.
🛩️ Update: Successful test flight of the world's largest fully electric aircraft
A new milestone for emissions-free air traffic.
🔆 Change the car - keep the battery
Batteries that last for over two million kilometers have a significantly longer service life than the rest of the car. What does it mean when we have to "buy a new car?"