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.
Honda to launch hydrogen fuel-cell car in California this year
Honda Motor Co Ltd said on Thursday its hydrogen fuel cell car, dubbed Clarity Fuel Cell, will be launched in California before the end of 2016. The new 5-passenger sedan is expected to be priced at around $60,000 with a monthly lease of under $500, Honda said in a statement released at the D.C. Read More...
Driverless cars will revolutionize urban planning, giving back space to community
There are about a billion parking spots in the United States and some 250 million passenger cars. You see the problem. Most cars are parked 95 percent of the time. That requires a lot of space—ugly space. Total parking space in the US requires a land size bigger than the state of Connecticut. The Read More...
Your 21st-century car will be zero-emissions and smart
Silicon Valley and Detroit are now in a race to reinvent the automobile — delivering zero tailpipe emissions, autonomous driving, and seamless voice-connectivity between the car, all your digital devices, your home and place of work. Think iPhone compared to landline in visualizing the scale Read More...
Self-driving cars will save on fuel and cut down substantially on greenhouse gas emissions
While there's more testing than real life to self-driving cars, it seems they will be part of the future. Automakers like Audi, BMW, Ford and Toyota continue developing their versions of the technology and Google sends driverless cars around the streets of California. Meanwhile, president Obama Read More...
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric car promises 200+ miles of range for "around $30,000"
After introducing the Bolt EV concept last year, in all its orange-palette glory, GM has now unveiled the production version of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt, which will go into commercial production at the end of 2016. The big selling points are the "more than 200 miles of range" at a price "around Read More...
Tesla Model X now offers synthetic leather, for vegan appeal
Tesla's electric cars have won a loyal following from customers, thanks to their zero-emission powertrains, performance, and copious technology. But there's a subset of Tesla customers who weren't completely satisfied with the company's offerings. Vegan buyers have taken issue with Tesla's use of Read More...
Germany to spend billions supporting electric car expansion
Among European nations, Germany is one of the least active when it comes to policies promoting electric cars. Even as the country's powerful auto industry has turned more attention to plug-in cars, government support for them has been largely limited to political speeches. But now German Economy Read More...
U.S. government pushes for self-driving cars
DETROIT—The Obama administration on Thursday proposed a 10-year, $4 billion push to encourage the development of self-driving cars, hoping to one day eliminate roadway deaths altogether. The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulators Read More...
New study shows self-driving cars are safer than human drivers
Autonomous vehicles are safer. At least, that's the conclusion by the first study on the crash rate for self-driving cars, which compared that data to national crash rates. Researchers from Virginia Tech Transportation found that the self-driving cars have a crash rate of 3.2 crashes per million Read More...
Audi's hydrogen concept car fuels up in four minutes
CES was a hotbed of car announcements this year, but luckily some surprises have been saved for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Take Audi's h-tron quattro, a hydrogen-powered concept car with a Tesla-beating range of 372 miles. It has three fuel tanks hidden beneath the Read More...