Archive for the ‘transportation’ category: Page 294
Jun 17, 2019
Aston Martin will race a detuned Valkyrie at Le Mans in the new Hypercar class
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced a new top class for the Le Mans endurance race – a “hypercar” class that will begin in 2020–21, designed to entice some of the world’s most extreme streetcars to throw down and prove themselves. And one we’ll definitely see on track is the awesome Aston Martin Valkyrie.
Jun 16, 2019
Germany Opens 62-Mile Bicycle Highway That’s Completely Car-Free
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
Germany has opened the first three-mile stretch of a bicycle highway that will eventually span over 62 miles, connecting 10 western cities including Duisburg, Bochum, and Hamm, as well as four universities. And this highway is an entirely separate roadway that will remain completely car-free.
Jun 13, 2019
Electric scooter recharges in 5 minutes with StoreDot’s new battery tech
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
Range and recharge times are perhaps the two biggest issues currently facing electric vehicles. But StoreDot is ready to solve at least one of those. The company just showed off its fast charging batteries by topping up an empty electric scooter battery in just 5 minutes.
Jun 13, 2019
Taiga Motors launches new electric snowmobiles with impressive specs
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
Taiga Motors is one of the rare companies working to bring to market an all-electric snowmobile, which is actually a segment of transportation that desperately needs cleaner solutions.
The startup is unveiling today its new lineup of electric snowmobiles with some impressive specs.
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Jun 12, 2019
Uber Air announces first international city to trial flying taxis
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: transportation
Jun 12, 2019
Lyft has completed 55,000 self-driving rides in Las Vegas
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Jun 11, 2019
Hypersonic matterwaves for ultrafast atomtronics
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, transportation
Atomtronics manipulates atoms much in the way that electronics manipulates electrons. It carries the promise of highly compact quantum devices which can measure incredibly small forces or tiny rotations. Such devices might one day be used to monitor Earth’s status by sensing water levels in the desert or in the search for minerals and oil. They will also be used in navigation, when GPS fails on planes or ships due to malicious attacks or simply because it is not available, e.g. in the deep seas. They might also one day act as portable quantum simulators solving complex computational tasks.
Coherent atomtronics manipulates atoms in the form of matterwaves originating from Bose-Einstein condensates (a state of matter in which all the atoms lose their individual identity and become one single quantum state with all the atoms being everywhere in the condensate at the same time). The atoms in these matterwaves behave much more like waves rather than individual particles. These matterwaves can be brought to interfere and thus made to respond to the tiniest changes in their environment such as the difference in gravitational pull between light organic material and heavy iron ore. When compared to light, atoms can be 10 billion times more sensitive, e.g. to rotation or acceleration, when compared to the photons that make up light. This sensitivity depends on the measurement time and—just like Newton’s apple—atoms fall due to Earth’s gravity. This forces the most sensitive interferometers to be very tall, reaching 10 meters and in some cases even 100 meters.
Jun 10, 2019
Volkswagen obliterates Nürburgring electric record
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: transportation
Volkswagen built its ID.R with the intention of showing what the heads in its electric drive division are capable of, and it only took a few months after its unveiling for the zero-emission race car to claim a record at the iconic Pikes Peak. The twin-motor electric racer has now built on this with yet another momentous showing, this time at Nürburgring-Nordschleife, where it has broken the lap record for electric vehicles by a whopping 40.564 seconds.