Carless utopia for one day A cynic might argue that the car free day is little more than PR ahead of a United Nations climate change conference being hosted in Paris later this year, but rising pollution has forced the city to act. In March, air pollution briefly made Paris the most polluted city in the world. Smog became so…
A new generation of roadside mobile phone detector that targets drivers using hand-held devices behind the wheel is to be trialled in Sussex. Funded by the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership, the pioneering equipment will be able to detect the use of mobile phones within vehicles whenever they drive past the sign.
The hipster bus is the latest attempt to attract passenger to public transport. Four buses in Reading have had a makeover in a bid to attract more students. A £20,000 budget for each vehicle has been spent on jukeboxes, a micro-sized library and Lego sets to create “pioneering on-board experience”.
A new power plant in Copenhagen is to be fitted with the world’s first steam ring generator an innovation that could inspire a new breed of car exhaust.
The smallest electric car in the world is the Walk Car – a vehicle so diminutive in size that you can carry it in a handbag.
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