🚘 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.
🛩️ Successful test flight of the world's largest all-electric plane
A new milestone in low-cost zero-emission air travel.
LIDAR increases safety in Volvo's upcoming cars
Luminar is the LIDAR technology that will make upcoming Volvo cars safer and self-driving.
⛵ Huge sailing ships can reduce emissions by 90 percent
This autumn, researchers will begin testing a prototype of a sailing ship that can replace today's large motorized transport ships.
🚦 Hyundai presents its vision of 'Optimistic Futurism' with its concept EV, Prophecy
Hyundai has unveiled a new concept electric vehicle controlled by a joystick instead of a steering wheel. The car is called Prophecy and is inspired by the company’s ‘Sensuous Sportiness’ design philosophy.
🚗 Tesla's unique position beyond the hype
Has the stock market gone crazy or is there substance behind the hype? To value Tesla, one must understand the dramatic change the automotive industry is going through and how Tesla is leading that change.
🔋HUMMER symbolized contempt for CO2 emissions - now it makes a comeback as an electric car
It was big and noisy, drank gasoline like no other and emitted lots of carbon dioxide. After the financial crisis, it came to symbolize much of what went wrong and production was shut down in 2010. Now it comes back as an electric car.
More self-driving cars mean fewer traffic jams
As little as seven percent of self-driving cars on the roads can double the average speed of congested roads.
🛩️ North Carolina is First In Flight, again!
After recording the first human flight back in 1903, today North Carolina also became the first state in America to witness an autonomous air taxi flight.
Volkswagen invests $50 billion in electric vehicles
🔋🚘 Volkswagen has 70 electric vehicles in the pipeline, but first is an electric hatchback called ID.3. Priced from around $30,000 with a range of 200 miles or more. It will begin rolling off German assembly lines in November.