Electric cars, bicycles, scooters and skateboards may offer a quieter and cleaner alternative to the internal combustion engine, but does battery technology threaten to make us even lazier than we are already? Gita means ‘short trip’ in Italian and the name Piaggio has given to its latest project; a smart, self-propelled shopping trolley. The Gita is an electric cargo vehicle designed to…
As the debate in Britain over the high-speed rail project HS2 continues to simmer, in America, the billionaire inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk has turned his attention to rail travel of the near future and a high-speed connection between Los Angeles and San Francisco code-named Hyperloop One – a 800 mph-concept referred to as “a cross between a Concorde, a…
January might have been a relatively dry month across Britain, but a combination of freezing temperatures and widespread gritting made the roads seem especially grimy. Cleaning a bike after every ride is an arduous task, but recommended if components are not to corrode or wear prematurely. Win a bicycle cleaning kit To make the task easier, we’ve got a Muc-Off…
Faced with a generation of fatter and older drivers, engineers in America are building supersized crash test dummies. The current design of crash test dummy dates from the early 1970s and was modelled on the weight of a man on the 50th percentile. Since then, the average driver has become notably older and heavier. The new supersized crash test dummy has…
We were asked this week to share our views on the changing face of transport in London. Here’s what we said. One of Transport for London’s environmental goals is to decrease the emissions to the air from traffic. What do you see is being currently done to improve London’s transportation system from a sustainable perspective and in relation to this…
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