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.
Southern Hemisphere's first all-electric passenger ferry to be built in New Zealand
A $4 million fully electric and zero emission passenger ferry set to be built in New Zealand will be the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Construction on the 19m long vessel will start over the next few months and it will be ready for service in Wellington next Read More...
Batteries that could let electric cars drive twice as far just got closer
In 2010, a pair of MIT materials scientists helped launch 24M, promising to deliver cheaper, better batteries by stripping out inactive materials in the Read More...
California says all city buses have to be emission free by 2040
On the heels of a dire government report published last month about climate change and its devastating impacts, many cities and states are scrambling to find ways to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten their air quality, not to mention their Read More...
Hydrokinetic energy from running water cleanly charges electrical vehicles
Lif-E-Buoy takes advantage of the natural hydrokinetic energy of running water—abundantly available in most river-based urban centres—to generate clean energy for electric vehicles and infrastructure. EU-supported for the lif-E-Buoy project has enabled researchers to undertake a feasibility Read More...
Why aren't school buses electric? These Coloradans are sick of diesel
Before her two kids returned to school at the end of last summer, Lorena Osorio stood before the Westminster, Colorado, school board and gave heartfelt testimony about raising her asthmatic son, now a student at the local high school. "My son was only three years old when he first suffered from Read More...
Chinese company says it will soon cross $100 battery threshold
Envision Energy will produce batteries for $100 per kilowatt hour by 2020, the Shanghai company’s founder and CEO said at Stanford University, predicting the price will drop to $50 only five years later and end the reign of the internal-combustion engine. Envision’s analysts realized they Read More...
Volvo's self-driving trucks are ready to start work at a mine in Norway
Volvo has taken a significant step forward with its self-driving truck technology after inking its first-ever commercial deal that puts its autonomous vehicle — or six of them, to be precise — into action. The Swedish automaker has signed an agreement with Norwegian mining firm Brønnøy Kalk Read More...
MIT: the transition to electric vehicles faces better prospects than expected
The electric vehicle revolution could play a great deal in helping slow down global warming and potentially achieve a carbon-free future. The transition could actually happen sooner than expected as researchers at MIT have found that nearly 90 percent of America’s current personal vehicles could Read More...
Six self-driving trucks will transport limestone in a Norwegian mine
An often-overlooked use for autonomous driving technology is in industrial applications, where raw materials have to be shipped from point A to point B. In what automaker Volvo calls its “first commercial autonomous solution transporting limestone from an open pit mine to a nearby port,” six Read More...
FedEx expands fleet to add 1,000 Chanje electric vans
FedEx Corp has said that it plans to add 1,000 Chanje electric delivery vans to its fleet of vehicles in a bid to save on fuel and cut down on Read More...