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Jan 15, 2017

2 Days From China To Europe

Posted by in category: transportation

Russia is not only talking about developing a sophisticated network of high-speed passenger trains but a trans-continental high-speed cargo rail line as well.

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Jan 15, 2017

The Copenhagen Wheel official product release

Posted by in categories: media & arts, mobile phones, transportation

Pre-order at http://www.superpedestrian.com This is the first commercial version of the Copenhagen Wheel. Now available for sale.
Own a limited edition, hand-crafted Copenhagen Wheel, invented and built in Cambridge, MA.

The Copenhagen wheel Technical specifications:
MOTOR US: 350W / EU: 250W
WEELE SIZE 26″ or 700c rim
BATTERY Removable 48Volt Lithium
CONNECTIVITY Bluetooth 4.0
BATTERY LIFE 1000 cycles
SMARTPHONE OS iOS, Android
CHARGE TIME 4 hours
COMPATIBILITY Single Speed or 9/10 Speed Free Hub (email us your bike specs if you have doubts: [email protected])
TOP SPEED US: 20 mph
EU: 25 km/h
BRAKE TYPE Rim brake and regenerative braking (downhill and back-pedal)
RANGE Up to 50 km / 31 mi
WEIGHT 5.9 kg / 13 lbs
DROPOUT 135 mm

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Jan 15, 2017

How Electric Vehicles Could End Car Ownership as We Know It

Posted by in category: transportation

Christopher Mims looks at the electronic vehicles that could end car ownership as we know it, from Swagtron’s Swagger-1 electric scooter to Mahindra Group’s GenZe 2.0 to the three-wheeled Arcimoto SRK.

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Jan 13, 2017

Making hydrogen from wax

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy, transportation

This publication suggests that wax could be carried on vehicles and used to create hydrogen gas in situ, the waste carbon being used to make more wax via syngas production and the Fischer-Tropsch process, where carbon monoxide and hydrogen is converted into hydrocarbons as a potential source of petro-chemicals that does not involve releasing fossil carbon into the atmosphere. While this publication is still a long way from a working industrial-scale process, it offers a very hopeful potential avenue for less-polluting technology.


Philip recently attended an event for other Oxford University chemistry alumni, and one of the speakers drew attention to a recent publication from, among others, Oxford chemists, regarding the production of hydrogen from paraffin waxes by microwave degradation using a ruthenium catalyst.

Hydrogen has often been suggested as an environmentally-friendly replacement energy source for fossil fuels in transport vehicles and other applications requiring high energy density. (Note that hydrogen is not a “fuel”, as it must be made using energy from other sources, which can be environmentally-friendly or not.) However, there are significant problems with this, notably involving the safe storage of a highly-inflammable and explosive gas which is much lighter than air.

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Jan 13, 2017

How the government is making way for self-driving cars

Posted by in categories: government, robotics/AI, transportation

Outgoing Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx on our robotic future.

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Jan 12, 2017

The Department of Transportation wants to make cars talk

Posted by in category: transportation

Cars might have to broadcast their whereabouts to other vehicles.

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Jan 10, 2017

Smart Highway Market Explores New Growth Opportunities By 2026

Posted by in categories: electronics, transportation

For my many self driving fans. Here is an idea that they could look into as part of this infrastructure is to have the sensors in the pavement be able to sense a car broken down on the side of the road and notify nearby tow trucking company hired by the city or county as well as the same sensors able to pick up on vehicle impacts on the road to contact police/ hwy. patrol and emergency responders as cameras cannot be everywhere to monitor.


Press release — Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd — Smart Highway Market Explores New Growth Opportunities By 2026 — published on openPR.com.

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Jan 10, 2017

Invisible Combat Vehicles May Now Be Possible; Russian Scientists Claim

Posted by in categories: innovation, transportation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VTXmmttInWk

Interesting.


20 Armata tanks boasted with a science breakthrough idea that reduced visibility with high-tech armor protection have successfully been tested in Russia.

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Jan 9, 2017

Ford aims for self-driving car with no gas pedal, no steering wheel in 5 years, CEO says

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Ford Motor CEO Mark Fields, Monday on CNBC, explained the automaker’s ambitious plan to create the autonomous vehicle of the future.

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Jan 9, 2017

Energy all around us could power under-skin implants and sensors in aircrafts – Dr Gonzalo Murillo

Posted by in categories: energy, transportation

There is unlimited kinetic energy all around us and harnessing it could change the way we interact with the world forever, according to Dr Gonzalo Murillo from the National Microelectronics Center of Spain, whose research into piezoelectric materials has earned him an award for the most novel innovator under 35 in Europe 2016 from the MIT Technology Review, US.

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