E-Bike Sporting Retro Look

Poland’s Avionics has created a limited edition e-bike for MB&F’s MAD Gallery that’s instilled with 1930s moto spirit. Like the V1 before it, the VM is a marriage of wood and metal, and comes with a 5-kW motor. Created exclusively for the Swiss watch-maker’s Mechanical Art Devices (MAD) Gallery, and limited to just 52 numbered units, the striking e-bike rocks […]

Carbon Rickshaw Folds

If you’ve ever been to Vietnam, then you’ll have seen the rickshaw taxi-trikes in which the pedaler sits behind the passenger. Well, the Companion Bike is a carbon fiber version of those, that folds inwards for storage and transit. Created by inventor Quan Pham, the Companion Bike is intended both for commercial use, and for transporting family members or friends […]

Nimble E-Bike Trailer

Two of the more interesting urban cargo hauling solutions out there are now working together. The Tern GSD electric cargo bike and Carla Cargo bike trailer are becoming a powerful but compact delivery team. Smaller, lighter and more agile than an electric mini-truck or van, the combo can carry 700 lb (318 kg) through whatever crowded city squares, narrow alleys […]

Free Public Transportation In Luxembourg

Swapping your car for public transportation is a great way to lower your environmental impact — and doing so just got a lot easier for the people of Luxembourg. As of Feb. 29, 2020, all public transport within the small European country is free of charge. Luxembourg is the first country in the world to roll out nationwide free public […]

Does Ride Hailing Actually Increases More Carbon Emissions?

As ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have surged in popularity in the past decade, so too has the emissions arising from the transportation sector, according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists. The researchers conducted an analysis of pollution from ride-hailing vehicles across seven major US cities, finding that these services generate 69 percent more carbon […]

Modular E Boat

The 26-foot (8-m) DC25 yacht tender from DutchCraft is designed to do a little of everything the modern day captain and sportsman might need from a center console boat. Using simple deck-mounted rails, the boat easily transforms from a breezy pleasure craft, to a sporty dive or fishing boat, to a capable superyacht tender, to an empty toy carrier. An […]

Seeing Beneath Snow-Covered Roads

Ordinarily, self-driving cars use cameras and other sensors to “see” where they are on the road. However, what happens if the road markings are covered in snow? Well, MIT has developed a system that lets vehicles look beneath the asphalt instead. The experimental technology incorporates what’s known as “localizing ground-penetrating radar” (LGPR), in which electromagnetic pulses are emitted into the […]

New Congestion Busting Algorithm 

One of a number of benefits promised by a future in which cars drive themselves is less congestion, with advanced autonomous vehicles being so adept at navigating the streets that they not only avoid slamming into each other, but keep traffic flowing much more smoothly than humans ever could. Researchers at Northwestern University have come up with a novel control […]

Koenigsegg Gemera 4 Seater 

Other supercar makers are busy expanding out into the world of SUVs, but Koenigsegg is just now getting around to introducing its first two-door with four seats. And if you’re worried that means a muddying of the purity of performance the Swedish brand is built on, fear not because the “world’s first mega-GT” is an all-out performance machine like every […]