🚘 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.
🚁 Electric air taxis to showcase at the Olympics
Electric air taxis will be highlighted at the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics.
🔋 Have electric cars reached price parity with fossil fuel cars now?
"...electric cars will reach the same price level as combustion engine cars by 2024," we wrote in 2021. Too optimistic, some said. You are naive, others said. Now it's almost 2024, how naive were we?
🚘 Self-driving cars are safer than human drivers, study shows
The study finds that human drivers are more likely to crash, cause crashes and injure others than autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars can reduce traffic fatalities and improve urban mobility.
🚘 Autonomous vehicles cause fewer injuries and fatal crashes
Self-driving cars decrease the risk of injury-causing and fatal accidents compared to human drive vehicles.
🚢 How a box and a truck driver made the world smaller and the global economy bigger
Loading a medium-sized ship with loose cargo cost $5.86 per ton in 1956. If you instead used containers for the cargo, the cost dropped to 16 cents. This breakthrough dramatically changed the world in the second half of the 20th century.
🔥 Fewer fires in electric cars compared to fossil-fueled cars (in the country with the highest share of electric cars)
"Electric cars rarely catch fire, and much less frequently than gasoline and diesel cars," says Kjetil Solberg from the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (DSB).
🚢 New 'Battery Tanker' to transport clean energy by sea
The advent of Battery Tankers could lead to offshore wind farms being set up in areas where undersea cable deployment was previously challenging.
🚗 New test: 81 miles increased range for electric cars
15 of the cars managed over 311 miles (500 km), compared to only five three years ago. Tesla Model S won with 417 miles (672 km).
🚗 An electric car is the world's best-selling car
An electric car has toppled the Toyota Corolla from the top spot.