🚘 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.
🚙 Fiat is transitioning to all-electric starting 2025
The Italian automaker Fiat is planning on transitioning its fleet to all-electric by 2030.
✈ The sound of airplanes – from thunder to the rumbling of a hairdryer
A new sound-insulating material can lower the noise level of an airplane engine by 80 percent, and at the same time reduce the weight of the insulating material.
🚘Germany has approved a law that allows self-driving cars
Germany has as the first country in the world passed a bill that permits self-driving cars of level 4, in certain areas all over the country.
☀️Wildlife protectors get equipped with solar-powered motorbikes
This electric motorbike is solar-powered and quiet - an important trait when used to protect endangered animals from poachers in Africa.
💡 Optimist's Edge: This is when electric cars will be cheaper than petrol cars
72 percent are completely wrong about when electric cars will be cheaper to buy than petrol cars, and out of those half think that it will NEVER happen. Electric vehicles will overtake petrol cars when the cost of the battery makes them cheaper to buy. We reveal when this will happen.
💨 How Amazon delivers at super speed — and other benefits of E-commerce
Online spending skyrocketed around the globe in 2020 — and no other company got a larger piece of that pie than Amazon. Ulrika Gerth takes a deep dive into how they can deliver so fast, and what benefits e-commerce gives us in general.
🌟 Electric cars for the people!
Electric cars are often described as "expensive". That perception is changing. A French-Romanian electric car contributes to that.
🚌 First city in the world to use hydrogen-powered double-deckers
In October last year, the world's first hydrogen-powered double-decker buses arrived in Aberdeen, Scotland.
🏆 Battery-powered drones deliver COVID-19 vaccine
Vaccination against COVID-19 is a challenge in sparsely populated areas. Zipline has experience in distributing healthcare equipment outside cities. Now you get a new assignment.