Transportation
🛫 Air travel will also go electric
Christmas came early for me. First Tesla’s Battery Day (or night in Sweden) and immediately after Heart Aerospace’s Hangar Day showing off their electric airplane.The debate over electric airplanes has been raging for a while. “It is impossible!” say the pessimists...
🔋 Tesla cuts battery cost by 56% and promises $25,000 car
On Battery Day showed the enormous effort they are putting in to cut the cost of electric vehicles to be cheaper to buy than the comparable fossil fuel-powered car.To do that the battery is the most important part and they revealed some breakthroughs in all aspects of...
🛥 Self-propelled boat ready to cross the Atlantic
This year it is 400 years since Mayflower set off for the new world, the United States. As a tribute, IBM is now launching, together with non-profit ProMare, a robotic AI vessel that will take shipping into the future.The research vessel, called the Mayflower...
🚁 Drones are tested for critical societal functions in sparsely populated areas
The EDIS project, Electric aircraft and drones in the service of society, has gathered cutting-edge expertise in several areas for testing and development in drone technology and electric aircraft. It is primarily about improving the conditions for community service...
