🚘 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.
🚘 Internal combustion engine car sales peaked in 2017
Global auto sales rebound, but internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles may never return to pre-pandemic levels. Electric vehicle adoption is accelerating in China, Europe, and the US, indicating a significant shift toward a sustainable future.
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The art of taking positive news and turning it into negative news.
💰 Electric vehicles surpass $1 trillion in global sales
Annual spending on passenger EVs surged by 53%, reaching $388 billion in 2022. In total EVs for more than one trillion dollars have been sold.
🚗 Tesla's next car model will be 50 percent cheaper
A new Model 3 costs just over $40,000 to buy. The price of the next generation vehicle could therefore be as low as a little more than $20,000.
📉 Lithium price drop could boost electric vehicle sales
Lithium prices have gone up in the last years, contributing to increased costs for electric car batteries. But now prices are dropping.
🚁 Stockholm testing drones in city environment
Stockholm City will participate in a new EU project to develop a drone infrastructure for delivering goods and services. The project can potentially revolutionize how we think about transportation and logistics in urban areas.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be a freedom revolution for people with disabilities
💡 Self-driving cars will look different and be much cheaper to travel, meaning a freedom revolution for people with disabilities.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be really fast
Few humans can drive at 200 miles per hour, like an F1 driver, and it is very dangerous to do so. But that would be easy peasy for an autonomous vehicle.
💡 Optimist's Edge: Self-driving cars will be extremely safe
💡 Self-driving cars will be many times safer than human-driven cars and save millions of lives and stop even more people from getting hurt.