Oil giant BP wants to reduce its dependence on oil and become a more sustainable energy company. As a step in that direction, the company has decided to invest one billion pounds in charging stations for electric vehicles around the UK.The charging stations will be...
Ever since the advent of flight, speed has been of great fascination for many. For commercial airlines, the rate was initially essential to compete with rail. But the military saw the importance of speed to enable bombers to evade fighter interception. And...
Despite the fact that car traffic increased by four percent and truck traffic by six percent last year, total emissions from road traffic decreased by 0.3 percent, according to the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket.A major reason for the decrease is that...
As part of efforts to switch to clean energy, Kenya has introduced the first-ever all-electric bus designed in Africa, with the first model set to be launched commercially this year.According to the developers of the bus, Opibus, a Swedish-Kenyan technology company,...
If you're into cars, you've probably heard of Koenigsegg. The small car manufacturer in Sweden makes among the fastest cars in the world. Their currently fastest car is the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut at an unbelievable theoretical limit of 330mph.However,...
Electric cars are, on a basic level, more environmentally friendly than cars that run on fossil fuels, but there are areas where electric cars have a major environmental impact. One is the energy consumption in battery production. However, a new study from Chalmers...