Stefan Sahlmann is head of MAN Transport Solutions and advises cities on the roll-out of electric mobility. We asked him where the key obstacles lie for municipalities and why a truck manufacturer...
It was actually launched in the summer of 2016: the car for women. The SEAT Mii by Cosmopolitan was the result of a collaboration between the SEAT design team and the editors and readers of the...
Inflatables – inflatable stand-up paddleboards (SUP) in the main – have conquered the water sports market in recent years. But times are changing – these days hardboards are in...
After three years of prototyping with Additive Industries’ MetalFAB1 in Taufkirchen (near Munich), Airbus’ daughter company APWORKS has decided to scale up to series production for its...
Paris, Berlin, Drimmelen. The self-driving minibus is on the rise and is gradually conquering the world as a way of bridging short distances. At least as long as the passengers take the minibus to...
The Netherlands is the cycling country of the world. The Dutch have nothing to complain about when it comes to the construction and maintenance of bike paths. The rest of the world is also working...
Two days ago, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe launched the “Sea Mile Project”, wherein a self-driving bus is being tested in everyday traffic on a 600-meter-long route “Am Tegeler...
A little less than a month ago, the first prototype of the Lightyear One – the world’s first solar car – was unveiled in the Netherlands. Plans are that it will debut in 2021....
The road is more or less made for it: one long straight stretch measuring 600 meters, with a green strip in the middle of the first few hundred meters which neatly separates the traffic to and from...
How do you build a racing car? How do you manage a team? What does it take to build and sell a car? What is the best way to do business? How does marketing work? For some time already, one could...
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The ‘strict’ environmental objectives for 2021 are rapidly approaching. In that year, the average tank-to-wheel CO2 emissions for an automobile concern’s entire fleet are permitted...
A new class of electrolytes was discovered during an international research project. These are crystalline, but have kinetic properties more similar to those of liquid electrolytes. The new solid...
A new study on the positive sides of hydrogen and diesel was presented by the Fraunhofer ISE Institute on 13-7-2019 and this blog is my rebuttal to that. Here I refer to a recent publication in...
One heat record after another was broken this week. In order to stay cool, everyone who had air-conditioning turned the temperature down a notch or two. But that has its price. We all use about 20...
Gliding smoothly over the streets in Oslo, I feel like I’m in an episode of the Jetsons. I am greeted kindly by an oncoming rider on the latest version of the Segway, followed by his...
Cities are running out of clean air. Therefore, it is time to get to work on new concepts. Among other things, in terms of mobility. One option presently under consideration is the use of e-vehicles...
The e-scooter epidemic is overrunning European cities and the new road users are not integrating seamlessly. One of the things that make pedestrians angry is the wild parking on sidewalks. The...
It looks like nobody can beat the Technical University of Munich’s Hyperloop group. For the fourth time in a row, the students from Germany won the worldwide Hyperloop Competition in Los Angeles....
In the third and last part of our small series about electric cars, battery or hydrogen-powered, we compare these two concepts once again, look at the respective dangers, and draw a conclusion as to...
Avular, a mobile robotics start-up from Eindhoven, received an investment from Lumipol in 2018. Since then major changes have been made to the company’s business model. Avular has also moved its...
More and more people are trying to live healthier and greener. The bicycle is in many respects a more interesting means of transport than a car or public transport. It is not only healthier, but...
After having dealt in part 1 of our brief series with what German car manufacturers have to offer or are planning in the field of electric cars, be it battery or hydrogen, in part 2 we take a closer...
At the moment, the battery-powered car is still the main focus of attention among German car manufacturers as the means of transport for the future. For a few weeks, however, the word...
Every week four freight trains run directly between Tilburg and Chengdu. China has found North Brabant to be an important logistics hub. Can the province prevent it from ending up in a political...
Visit any major city and you see E-Scooters everywhere. Some people claim it is a great sustainable alternative for the car, others think it is far too dangerous. IO makes an overview of all the...
