Glimpses at Windows for the Hyperloop at SXSW

  • 16 Mar 2016

During SXSW this year, people gathered to hear about a mysterious giant tube that will move people from place to place in the future.

United Airlines begins using biojet fuel in routine LAX flights

United Airlines made history March 11 by becoming the first U.S. airline to begin use of commercial-scale volumes of sustainable aviation biofuel for regularly scheduled flights with the departure of United Flight 708 from LAX International Airport.

Solar Impulse 2 is ready to soar with the sun again

A successful test flight means that after being grounded in Hawaii for seven months, the Solar Impulse 2 is ready to continue its journey around the world.

China unveils vision of future city

‘IF YOU build it they will come.’ This is the thinking guiding one of China’s most ambitious projects — a plan to build a “smart” city for 500,000 people, from scratch, on four man-made islands in South-East Asia.

Swiss invent ultrafast 15-min EV charger

Swiss researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EFPL) are claiming they have created a ground-breaking new way of charging an electric vehicle that takes only a fraction of the amount of time to fully charge a car, compared to traditional methods.

Electric Cars Aren't Enough. Tesla Is Now Going Vegan

Tesla, the all-electric-car company, has just unveiled an SUV model that's not only environmentally friendly — it's also vegan.

Greek City Trials Eco-Friendly Driverless Buses

As of last month, driverless battery-powered buses have been buzzing around Trikala'a small Greek city with a population of just 80,000. The bus has been trialed without passengers since summer of this year.

360 Video - Take a ride on Elon Musk's Hyperloop

The new technology, called Hyperloop, would consist of a tube with Concorde-like seating inside able to send passengers at 760 miles an hour on a cushion of compressed air

United States. Solazyme completes first commercial flight on biofuel

Biofuels - Solazyme completes first commercial flight on biofuel - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism

Iberia completes first commercial biofuel flight

Biofuels - Iberia completes first commercial biofuel flight - Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalism

The future of transportation on a planet with 7 billion people

Photo: Flickr, CC Take a Step Back and Look As we near the moment when our planet officially hosts 7 billion people (of course this is just a statistical guess - nobody's sure precisely how many humans are on Earth), we need to take some time to think

Solar Impulse - European solar flights - landing at Brussels airport

On Friday the 13th May 2011, after almost 13 hours of flight, André Borschberg lands in Brussels Airport for Solar Impulse's first international flight. It landed at 9:40PM UTC+2.