🚘 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.
🚘 Tesla launches full self-driving beta and Waymo offers driverless taxi
Self-driving cars are taking a step forward with Tesla launching a beta test of the significant upgrade of their autopilot and Google's autonomous driving company, Waymo, offering driverless taxi service in Phoenix, Arizona.
🤑 Owning an electric vehicle is less expensive compared to a gas car
You can save thousands of dollars by owning an electric vehicle than a gas car, even if the purchase price for buying the electric vehicle is higher, according to two new reports.
🚛 Here is Swedish Einride's new self-driving truck
The new version of the Pod, Einride's self-driving electric truck, comes in four different variants where one of them is ready for the highway.
🚘 Now Tesla cars will come with batteries without cobalt
Tesla will soon start rolling out Model 3 with cobalt-free batteries from its factory in China, reports the news agency Reuters.
🔋 Tesla’s Battery Day spells the end of the ICE age
If we connect the dots from Tesla's announcements on Battery Day we see the revolution in plain sight. The era of the internal combustion engine is over. By 2030 electric vehicles will be much cheaper both to buy and own, and very few ICE cars will be sold.
🛥 Self-propelled boat ready to cross the Atlantic
Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionize all kinds of vehicles. Self-propelled boats, which navigate using loads of sensors and AI, can be a common sight in the not-too-distant future. Soon the maiden voyage takes place for one of them.
🛫 Air travel will also go electric
"It's impossible!" the pessimists say about electric airplanes. Anders Forslund and Klara Andreasson seem not to have heard them. Because in a hangar outside of Gothenburg, they are building a commercial 19 passenger electric airplane.
🔋 Tesla cuts battery cost by 56% and promises $25,000 car
On Battery Day Tesla announced major breakthroughs that lead to 56 percent cheaper batteries with a 54 percent better range. This makes it possible to produce a $25,000 car, making it more affordable to buy and own an electric car than one with an internal combustion engine.
🚁 Drones are tested for critical societal functions in sparsely populated areas
EDIS is the project that primarily works to improve the conditions for community service and transport in areas with large distances and limited access to critical community functions.