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.
China speeds up national network to charge electric cars
China has shown a resounding desire to battle climate change in the last couple years, signing deals with the U.S to reduce carbon emissions and setting an ambitious goal of 5 million green vehicles on its roads by 2020. Now China is working urgently to speed up the construction of a national Read More...
Meet the electric bus that could push every other polluting bus off the road
Electric cars might be sexier. But Ryan Popple, who was an early employee at Tesla, is now convinced that electric buses are more interesting. Proterra, the startup Popple runs, designed a sleek new electric bus that drove 258 miles on a single charge in a recent test. That's farther than most tiny Read More...
Sergey Brin had a great response for why even people who love cars should embrace self-driving vehicles
Google cofounder Sergey Brin loves driving — and even reportedly bought one of Tesla's fancy, brand-new SUVs — but he still can't wait for a future full of autonomous vehicles. At a panel the company held earlier this week about its self-driving cars, one Australian journalist grilled Read More...
Why Google wants its self-driving cars to drive more like you
Google is designing its self-driving cars to operate more like human drivers on the road, according to the Wall Street Journal. That means cutting corners, creeping at stop signs and pausing less frequently. Chris Urmson, Google’s lead on the driverless car project, said at a conference in Read More...
Driverless cars could save tens of millions of lives this century
Automation on the roads could be the great public-health achievement of the 21st century. If driverless cars deliver on their promise to eliminate the vast majority of fatal traffic accidents, the technology will rank among the most transformative public-health initiatives in human history. But how Read More...
Tesla delivers Model X electric SUV to take on luxury carmakers
FREMONT, Calif. Telsa Motors delivered the first of its long-awaited Model X electric sports-utility vehicles on Tuesday, a product investors are counting on to make the pioneering company profitable after years of losses. The launch of the Model X represents a milestone for the loss-making Silicon Read More...
Elon Musk: Fully autonomous cars with 1,000km electric range are coming in 2017
Elon Musk believes Tesla cars will be fully autonomous by 2018, and have an all-electric range of more than 1,000km, double what it is today. He also predicts that by 2035 all new cars will not require a driver. A renowned futurist and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Musk predicts that the range of the Read More...
Tesla may share supercharger access with other car manufacturers
Tesla is willing to partner with other car brands to share their superchargers which charge much faster than other charges. This way, more electric cars could enter the mainstream. After all, potential buyers of more affordable electric car brands may be more willing to buy if it came with the Read More...
Bosch invents new electric car battery to double mileage
German electronics firm Bosch says it will have a solid state battery on the market by 2020 that will double the range of electric cars at half the cost of today’s batteries. Today the cheapest electric cars, which cost around $30,000, typically have a range of less than 100 miles. Once Read More...
Electric First, Driverless Later?
There are hints the tech giant is dipping into its classic playbook. Apple is doubling down on developing an electric car, and has assigned a 2019 ship-date to its secret automotive project, code-named Titan, according to a report this week in The Wall Street Journal. The latest news builds on Read More...