🚘 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.
✈️ In the future we travel more than ever
Our current means of transport are improving at a rapid pace. But there will also be several new ways of traveling that will make us travel more than ever in the future.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles take a step forward
Within a couple of weeks, three companies have announced important steps in the quest for self-driving cars. Tesla launched a beta test of their autonomous technology. Waymo opens up its driverless taxi service to the public in Phoenix, Arizona. And Cruise is doing the same thing in San Francisco.
🚙 Device curbs microplastic emissions from tires
College students invent a device that reduces microplastic emissions from tires and win a Dyson Award.
📹 First videos of Tesla's Full-Self Driving beta - see the revolution
Excited Tesla owners test the Full-Self Driving beta software. The roll-out will provide Tesla with lots of data that it will use to upgrade and make the software better continually.
🚘 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.