Modular e-boat cuts the high seas with Swiss Army knife adaptability
The 26-foot (8-m) DC25 yacht proposal from DutchCraft is designed to do a bit of everything the modern-day sportsman and captain might demand from a center console boat. Employing simple deck-mounted rails, the boat easily converts from a breezy pleasure craft, to a fishing or sporty dive boat to a capable superyacht tender, to an…
Self-Driving Delivery Van Dumps ‘Human Controls’
The first self-driving vehicle engineered without basic human controls such as pedals, steering wheels or side-view mirrors has been given permission to test on US roads. Nuro, the mastermind behind the design, makes autonomous delivery vans. The vehicle is Nuro’s second generation of its vehicles, which it is naming R2 and will be…
UPS comes together with Waymo to test self-driving delivery vans
Waymo is coming together with UPS to experiment with the use of its self-driving vans in moving packages. Waymo, the self-driving wing of Google’s (GOOG) parent company Alphabet, will use its autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans to transport packages from UPS stores in the Phoenix area to a UPS sorting facility in Tempe, Arizona. (Note: It will not be delivering packages…
EDAG CityBot – A Versatile, Modular Talking Vehicle
EDAG, the automotive engineering firm, has an extensive history of bringing stimulating, unconventional cars, like pop-up sports car campers and skeletal 3D-printed light cars. In current years, it’s been more content contributing to ideas and products from other brands, including Bosch. But it made a magnificent comeback at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, launching a smart,…
India’s First Electric Scooter by Ather Energy
“We didn’t begin this to save the environment,” confided Tarun Mehta about the electric scooter company he cofounded in 2013 with college friend Swapnil Jain, Ather Energy. But if opposing the country’s gas-guzzling vehicles helps clean the air, so be it. “The correct way to actually do that is to create a product that people will buy—we…
Is “Range Anxiety” Preventing You From Buying an All-Electric Vehicle?
We measure the driving ranges of 15 of the most popular all-electric vehicles The advantages of electric vehicles are many. Whereas gasoline-powered vehicles transform only 17%–21% of the energy contained in the gasoline to drive the wheels, electric vehicles convert more than 77% of their battery energy to run the wheels. Electric vehicles are good for the atmosphere because…
Lilium electric air taxi pulling off some banked turns
Aviation company Lilium is moving ahead with testing of its all-electric plane, with the newest footage to come into sight from the German startup demonstrating the aircraft performing a few new moves. While short and not exactly remarkable, the test flight marks another step onward for a company targeting to have a commercial air taxi…
The Competition To Build A Flying Electric Taxi
How luring does it seem if there is a possibility of being commuting to and from work within a fraction of the time it usually takes? More on there will be no traffic jams, no cold platforms, and no train delays – seems like you are ready to say a quick yes. Well, the time…
Cybunker: Tesla CyberTruck Has Its Own Garage
Tesla Cybertruck’s revolutionary design is inspiring some very ambitious ventures, including now a bunker/garage for the electric pickup truck. Tesla Cybertruck has ignited the imagination of some really imaginative people who have designed some wild looking mods for the electric pickup truck. Today, we have found an even more ambitious project. Lars Büro, a research,…
Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot crashes into a police car
A Tesla has collided into a police car and other vehicle while on Autopilot in the US. Both the police car and the other car, which had broken down, were still at the time of the incident. The motorist told police that he put his Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot so that he could check…