Category Archives: Transport
Air travel could turn greener than ever in the near future, if this concept design by designer Jet Shao turns real. Called the SkyVoyage, this one’s drawn along the lines of airships, hybrid gliders and blimps. Mash these up together and you’d probably have a vehicle as such, capable of taking off vertically by inflating it’s gas-bag. The SkyVoyage is completely maneuverable using the wind or a hydrogen-powered fuel cells system, making this green sky traveler truly eco-friendly. A concept that could decrease the clutter on urban roads around the globe, the SkyVoyage could do well in mass transit systems too.
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This is probably the trashiest VW Beetle we’ve come across, and ironically, it happens to be the most beautiful too! No, we haven’t messed up our sentence formations again. What we’ve got here, is a marvel of recycling by Indian artist Haribaabu Naatesan. Hari used 2805 pieces of scrap metal to create this life-sized Think Blue Beetle. Compromising of 800 spark plugs, 200 bottle caps, 60 mother boards, audio cassettes, speakers, cans, keyboards, typewriters, and a bunch of other stuff you’d probably toss away in the trash, the materials were scavenged by Volkswagen and were brought to Hari, who then with his expertise and skill, assembled it all to create this beautiful piece of art and recycling combined.
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Car rental company Hertz will soon begin using wireless charging systems for its fleet of electric cars. The rental service will make use of systems developed by Virginia-based Evatran to juice up its fleet of Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt cars. As per Hertz plans, the service provider seeks to have at least a thousand electric rides hit the roads by the end of 2012 and will install the Evatran plugless system at its headquarters in Park Ridge, NJ. Wireless charging is being pushed to the surface these days, and in the near future, these could be the best possible way to fill up your electric car’s belly.
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Jaguar wooed the world with its C-X75 supercar concept a while ago. Now, the British automaker is back in action with plans to produce a limited number of these turbine-powered mean machines. Also, the car will not be completely powered by the turbines themselves, and will use hybrid propulsion being developed jointly by the Williams F1 team. The turbines will produce 95 horsepower each and will drive the rear wheels and will be developed by Bladon Jets Engineering Centre in Coventry. Also, the supercar will make use of electric energy for extra power punches, taking this prancing cat to the 60mph mark in just 3 seconds while staying as green as possible!
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ABB, one of the leading companies in power and automation technologies, is now planning to do EV users in Europe, the United States and parts of Asia a huge favor. With plans to open a massive EV charging network, the Switzerland-based firm plans to have these charging stations connected to a smart grid system and is bound to make potential EV buyers fish out the wallets without thinking twice. Also, given the fact that ABB is an industrial giant of sorts capable of fulfilling a promise as such, we can’t help grinning imagining the number of EVs that will zip around in the near future instead of them gas-guzzling contraptions on wheels we call cars.
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Wire-free induction based charging systems for electric vehicles have always been a welcoming thought. Also, given that the electric cars of today travel just 100 miles on a full belly, these need to be recharged while travelling long distances from time to time, which tends to break an otherwise seamless journey. Researchers at the Stanford University have stumbled on a development that could very well make electric car charging more user-friendly. The new system uses magnetic resonance that charges EVs remotely without having to plug in. these systems integrated in highways could very well charge your ride as you drive! Hook them up to renewable energy harvesters and you have yourself a true green mode of private transportation!
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Remember the Silver Surfer who showed up in the Fantastic Four flick? This vehicle we just stumbled across could make for the perfect ride for the planet destroyer, if he ever did chose to jump off that gleaming surf-board and chose to drive instead. Called the SPV (solar powered vehicle), this futuristic contraption on wheels is powered by solar energy and uses flexible thin-film modules on its aluminum structure to power up. By designer Omer Sagiv, the SPV is sleek and shiny as ever and is seriously energy efficient too. However, its sheer size and uniqueness doesn’t really make it for an ideal way to travel to work, particularly on a rainy day!
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London will now play home to greener taxis, beginning with two Renault Fluence Z.E.s that have finally been commissioned and authorized for hire. These cabs by Climatecars are low on carbon emissions and are the future of green taxis in London. The taxis are available at the same rate as conventional gas-guzzlers, though hiring these instead does the environment a favor. The taxis in particular sport a 115 mile range on a full charge and are comfortable enough to suit all the expectations you’d look for in a taxi! A better alternative to the iconic black London cabs that have been known to spew out enough smoke in the environment to create little trails of clouds behind them, these green taxis make public transport in London cleaner.
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Nissan chose to go green with its delivery system this time and seems to have made an efficiently green choice by using a solar powered ship to deliver its Leaf vehicles throughout Japan. Called the Roro ship, this vessel is partially solar-powered and uses 281 solar panels. Complete with light-emitting diode (LED) lighting to save energy. The Roro can carry up to 1,380 cars at a time. The ship will make the 1,100-mile from Oppama Wharf near Yokohama to the southern Japan island of Kyushu. The ship has about 18% lower Co2 emissions than a convention ship of its size with the panels helping save up on more than 1,300 tons of fuel annually!
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In an attempt to provide for a better service in the Big Apple, New York’s Bike-Sharing program is now asking city dwellers to suggest places where the Bike-Share stations should be ideally located! The new program will bring a whopping 10,000 bicycles to the city, with stations set up in and around Brooklyn and Manhattan. The final and exact locations however still need to be determined and the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) will host workshops where citizens can show up and suggest the exact locations that’ll ideally suit these stations. A simple yet fantastic way of ensuring every New York City dweller has his or her say in the setting up of these stations, we applaud the NYC-DOT for the effort.
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Air travel could turn greener than ever in the near future, if this concept design by designer Jet Shao turns real. Called the SkyVoyage, this one’s drawn along the lines of airships, hybrid gliders and blimps. Mash these up together and you’d probably have a vehicle as such, capable of taking off vertically by inflating it’s gas-bag. The SkyVoyage is completely maneuverable using the wind or a hydrogen-powered fuel cells system, making this green sky traveler truly eco-friendly. A concept that could decrease the clutter on urban roads around the globe, the SkyVoyage could do well in mass transit systems too.
