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European governments have “systematically” shrunk their railways and starved them of funding while pouring money into expanding their road network, a report has found. The Guardian: The length of motorways in Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while…
Under an agreement announced Monday, Joby Aviation will build hundreds of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft in the same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight. The Associated Press reports: Joby’s decisi…
Saturday the San Francisco Chronicle published a joint opinion piece from MIT professor Carlo Ratti (who directs an MIT digital lab exploring the collection of digital data about urban life) and John Rossant (founder of the collaborative data-sharing p…
“Here is another radical replacement for the traditional combustion engine,” writes long-time Slashdot reader Inzkeeper. “Check out the Astron Aerospace H2 Starfire Omega 1… an ICE engine with a turbine configuration.”
The company “is claiming that…
At 103 miles/kWh (or 0.6 kWh/100 km), the new “muc22” car built by students from the Technical University of Munich “is 25 times more efficient than any EV on sale…” writes Ars Technica. “For those who think in terms of miles per gallon, it’s the equ…
Honda’s new Motocompacto is a throwback all-electric ridable inspired by the short-lived scooter of the ’80s. Engadget reports: The vehicle, folded up, resembles one of those Costco folding tables but with little aluminum wheels poking out the bottom. …
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla has combined a series of innovations to make a technological breakthrough that could transform the way it makes electric vehicles and help Elon Musk achieve his aim of halving production costs, fi…
India’s road transport minister on Tuesday warned local and foreign automakers to either cut production of polluting diesel vehicles or face higher taxes and levies, setting alarm bells ringing in the world’s third-largest car market. From a report: He…
Siddharth Vikram Philip, Sabah Meddings, and Supriya Singh, reporting for Bloomberg News: As chief commercial officer of aircraft-parts supplier AOG Technics, Ray Kwong can look back on a well-rounded career at A-list companies including All Nippon Air…
The railway industry is increasingly embracing new systems and technologies to enhance operational efficiency, safety, and connectivity. As operators move on from their legacy systems, there is an ever-increasing number of connections and complexity to deal with from a security standpoint.