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.
The Netherlands moves to ban sale of fossil fueled cars by 2025
The Dutch parliament has adopted a motion to ban non-clean car sales by 2025. It stipulates that the sale of new cars on diesel or gasoline would be banned from 2025 onward, while existing fossil fuel cars would still be allowed. The motion still has to pass the Read More...
Self-driving car completes 1,200-mile roadtrip across China
Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ford Motor Co.’s partner in China, said it completed a 1,200-mile road trip to test a self-driving car as part of its ambitions to produce highly automated vehicles by 2020. The car set off from the company’s headquarters in Chongqing and reached Read More...
Global electric car sales on the rise
After four years of steady growth, U.S. plug-in electric car sales were essentially flat last year. Low gas prices and increased demand for SUVs had a dampening effect on the segment, which still accounts for a very small fraction of U.S. new-car sales. However, in other parts of the world, it was Read More...
Will the Tesla Model 3 be the first truly self-driving car?
On the evening of March 31st, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s sinuous Model 3, the company’s first “affordable” electric-car model. After touting the sedan’s punchy acceleration, two-hundred-and-fifteen-mile battery range, and sweeping, seamless glass roof, he mentioned its Read More...
What it really takes to drive an electric car revolution
Last week, I explained a dismaying reality for planet-savers everywhere: Not even mega-blowout sales for Tesla’s new Model 3 sedan are enough to substantially green and decarbonize our global transportation system. There are simply too many cars on the road and too many new Read More...
Ford's self-driving car works in total darkness
Headlights are for humans. Ford is testing self-driving cars that can "see" the road in total darkness. Watch CNET Update below to learn how it works. And if you're looking for robots to do other work for you, check out the Deebot D79 vacuum. It can empty its own dirt bin -- but there's a catch: Read More...
Tesla’s real innovation isn’t the electric car
It’s hard to overstate the economic impact of automobile manufacturing. Autos are both the biggest manufacturing sector and the biggest retail sector. And these sectors spread revenues to a huge number of other parties: suppliers, auto dealers, gas stations, media. A whole host of business Read More...
The world's first fuel cell car sharing program launches in Germany
As EVs become increasingly mainstream, they seem to have found a natural home in carsharing services. BlueIndy has left its mark on Indianapolis, Ford has been testing its own EV sharing programs, Japan and China have seen their share of programs pop up, electric carsharing is helping low-income Read More...
Tesla’s Model 3 already has 325,000 prospective owners
Orders keep rolling in for the forthcoming Model 3 from The extraordinary response to the vehicle, which will not even be built until late next year, underscored the demand among consumers for a mass-market electric car that carries Tesla’s luxury-brand cachet. Tesla said in a blog post that Read More...
Google self-driving cars head to Arizona to test desert road conditions
Google continues to tap new testing locations for its self-driving cars, with the metropolitan area of Phoenix, Arizona picked as the next spot, reports Reuters. Jennifer Haroon, head of business operations for Google's autonomous vehicles said that Arizona was attractive not just as a Read More...