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10/14/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Finnish shipyard unveils a fully electric superyacht that produces zero emissions

Electric vehicles are increasingly becoming popular because they emit little or even zero amounts of pollution, be it toxic fumes or noise levels that hurt the ears. The increasingly large selection of electric cars and electric planes will now be joined by an electric superyacht from Finland, an article in Superyacht News stated. A superyacht […]

09/25/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Two start-ups get Pentagon funding to build the first self-flying taxis

The Pentagon is hedging its bets in the race to build the world’s first driver-less air taxi. It is funding two start-ups that are quite close to realizing a working commercial vehicle in the near future, an article in The Guardian reported. Kitty Hawk and Joby Aviation are being funded by the Defense Innovation Unit […]

08/26/2018 / By David Williams

MIT researchers are developing self-driving tricycle that’s powered by electricity and runs up to 25 miles per charge

A group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are currently working hard on the development of a new self-driving vehicle. But unlike many other such groups, they are taking their research towards a different direction. Many projects that aim to come up with a new autonomous vehicle solution try to focus on […]

08/07/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Two-wheeled car being tested in China is a mashup of a motorcycle, electric car, and space capsule

What looks like the love child of a motorcycle, a car, and a spaceship? If you said it’s the Ford Gyron concept car from 1961, you get an oatmeal cookie for the historical tidbit. But the correct answer is a Chinese electric gyrocar inspired by the Ford design, an article in Bloomberg stated. A gyrocar […]

07/22/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The future of transportation: Autonomous boats that can be 3D-printed

On your next visit to Amsterdam or Bangkok or Venice, that gondola you board might be driven by a robot instead of a human – and 3D printed rather than built. An article in Science Daily states that automated boats could one day ply the canals and rivers of cities, laden with cargo and passengers […]

07/07/2018 / By David Williams

Proposed electric helicopter that converts to a plane in the air gets backing from Toyota, Intel

The flying car that was promised in so many science fiction stories of the past may soon become a reality if the California-based startup Joby Aviation gets its way. The company is currently hard at work on a prototype electric vehicle that it calls a “flying taxi” and has just received $100 million in funding […]

07/03/2018 / By Edsel Cook

China’s superfast bullet train network shows how antiquated the U.S. railway system truly is

China is rapidly outpacing the U.S. in many ways. The most glaring comparison involves their respective railway systems. A recent Business Insider article highlights the Chinese high-speed railway, which is the largest in the world with some of the fastest bullet trains in service, while the American equivalent is all but nonexistent. There are currently 15,500 […]

06/28/2018 / By David Williams

Chinese city of Zhejiang to build first superhighway for autonomous vehicles

By now, you have probably already heard all about self-driving cars. They come in all shapes and sizes, and also serve many different purposes. But no matter what type of car it is, it is going to have one thing in common with all other types of self-driving vehicles: the use of roads. They are […]

06/24/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Study suggests electrically charging airplanes to avoid lightning strikes by repelling the energy

We already fight wildfires with controlled burns, so why not do the same with lightning and electricity? Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are doing just that – developing a device that electrically charges an aircraft to avoid lightning, reported a ScienceDaily article. There’s no commercial aircraft in the world that hasn’t been struck by […]

06/02/2018 / By Edsel Cook

German aerospace expert says that electric planes may be in our very near future

Tesla e-cars are prowling the U.S. highways, while the roads of Chinese cities are filling up with electric buses. Soon it will be the turn of the electric plane to take to the skies. In a Deutsche Welle article, a German aerospace expert believes we will see e-planes offering short-range regional flights within two decades. Josef Kallo is […]

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