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Like a drone that you sit in – but would you feel safe?
Peter Ternstrom was about nine years old when he first saw the movie, Return of the Jedi, at the cinema. The scene in which Luke and Leia take to hover-bikes on a high-speed chase through a forest left a particular impression on him. "Absolutely, that has been an important inspiration for me," says Mr Ternstrom, who co-founded Swedish firm Jetson with Tomasz Patan.
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New Longest Train Route Now Allows Passengers To Travel From Portugal to Singapore
Train enthusiasts will be delighted to learn of a new route allowing passengers to travel between Portugal and Singapore. The trip will be the longest train ride on the planet, surpassing other lengthy journeys
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Bus or train? Dual-mode vehicle to begin operating in Japan
It's a bus, it's a train, it's a DMV! A dual-mode vehicle equally at home on road and rail is set to make its public debut on Saturday in the town of Kaiyo in Japan's Tokushima prefecture.
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FedEx Receives First All-Electric, Zero-Tailpipe Emissions Delivery Vans
FedEx has just received the first delivery of its new emission-free electric delivery trucks from BrightDrop, marking a major milestone in the broader move to electric vehicles around the world.
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Could hydrogen airships return as fast, cheap, green cargo transports?
California startup H2 Clipper wants to bring back hydrogen-filled airships, claiming they can unlock completely green intercontinental cargo operations carrying 8-10 times the payload of any cargo plane over 6,000 miles, at a quarter of the price.
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Why is air cargo suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping?
The cost to ship goods around the world by air is about 2.5 times more expensive than before the pandemic. On major trade lanes, where demand is especially high, such as China and Southeast Asia to the United States, rates are five or six times higher than normal for the peak shipping season.
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The Popularity of E-Bikes Isn’t Slowing Down
Motorized bicycles are outselling all-electric cars and have the potential to transform urban transit.
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A City Without Cars Is Already Here, and It’s Idyllic
Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana has been car-free for over a decade. Is it time to export their model?
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Germany unveils first self-driving train
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and industrial group Siemens on Monday unveiled the world's first automated, driverless train in the city of Hamburg, billing it as more punctual and energy efficient than traditional trains.
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Why America has a school bus driver shortage
Across the country, school districts are struggling to fill transportation jobs. The shortage helps explain systemic problems in the labor market.
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France's high-speed trains get an eco-makeover
Forty years after transforming modern train travel, the French look to do it again
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The evidence that the world has passed 'peak car'
Cars aren’t what they used to be. Sure, they have more horsepower, more features, and require less fuel — but they are losing their power over humanity. At least that’s the argument in a new book on the history of transportation by journalist Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist. In A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next, Standage argues the world may have already passed what he calls “peak car” — the point at which car ownership and use level off and start to decline.
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To get New Zealanders out of their cars we'll need to start charging the true cost of driving
To reduce pressure on cities and the environment, drivers should face a charge that reflects the actual costs of clogged roads, air pollution, climate change, injury and death.
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U.S. prosecutors charge Trevor Milton, founder of electric carmaker Nikola, with three counts of fraud
A federal grand jury charged Nikola founder Trevor Milton with three counts of criminal fraud for lying about “nearly all aspects of the business” to bolster stock sales of the electric vehicle start-up, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
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The Senate’s E-BIKE Act could make electric bikes a lot cheaper
Schatz said its about electrifying all forms of transportation.
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One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study
A new study lays to rest the tired argument that electric vehicles aren’t much cleaner than internal combustion vehicles. Over the life cycle of an EV — from digging up the materials needed to build it to eventually laying the car to rest — it will release fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a gas-powered car, the research found. That holds true globally, whether an EV plugs into a grid in Europe with a larger share of renewables, or a grid in India that still relies heavily on coal.
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World's fastest train made its debut in China
The new maglev train is capable of reaching 600 kilometres per hour.
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The Man Who Cleans Up After Plane Crashes
Robert Jensen has spent his career restoring order after mass fatalities: identifying remains, caring for families, and recovering personal effects. Here’s how he became the best at the worst job in the world.
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These futuristic pods could help cities solve their traffic problems
Belarus-based uSky Transport is testing a set of suspended pods to offset traffic congestion in Sharjah, UAE.
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Boom Supersonic aims to fly 'anywhere in the world in four hours for $100'
US startup Boom Supersonic is developing a Mach 2.2 airplane that's more than twice as fast as today's commercial jets. But the long-term goal, its CEO tells CNN, is to "fly anywhere in the world in four hours for $100."
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