How a Japanese entrepreneur built Ethiopia’s fastest-growing EV maker
Dodai plans to introduce motorcycles with exchangeable batteries as a strategy for growth.
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100,000 Chinese students join 50km night-time bike ride in search of good soup dumplings
Authorities impose restrictions on bike hire after huge group blocks a highway between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in China, as night biking trend takes off
Teleporting A Logical Qubit
The feat could enable large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers
ThereCraft’s Lifting-Body Drone Acrobatically Delivers Packages With Pinpoint Accuracy
A unique drone design promises aircraft payload with helicopter precision
Filipinos are embracing electric three-wheelers faster than officials can regulate them
Unregistered three-wheelers big enough for whole families are a popular antidote to the country's terrible gridlock.
If You Get Meds by Mail, They May Be Losing Potency in Summer Heat
Parts of the U.S. have experienced record-setting heat waves over the past few summers, which may have caused pharmaceutical ingredients to degrade while en route.
Youth activists win ‘unprecedented’ climate settlement in Hawaii
State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement
As massive earthquake rocks Taiwan and shutters trains, battery-swapping e-scooters rush in
The largest earthquake to hit Taiwan this century rattled the entire island overnight, collapsing buildings, damaging roads, and shutting down...
In photos: How delivery riders are coping with India’s extreme heat wave
Brutal temperatures in New Delhi, reaching as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, have claimed over 100 lives.
As Superyachts’ Popularity Grows, So Is Their Supersized Climate Impact
A French sociologist characterizes the boats of the ultra rich a form of “ecocide” for the heavy toll they’re taking on the planet.
It begins: Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars
Ethiopia's Transport and Logistics Ministries have announced that automobiles cannot enter the country unless they are electric. (!)
China Launches World's Largest Electric Container Ship, Slashing 8,600 Pounds of Emissions per 100 Nautical Miles
China debuts the world's largest fully electric container ship, the Greenwater 01, revolutionizing maritime transportation with its eco-friendly propulsion system and potential for significant emission reductions.
Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite safety risks.
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.
Carbon capture technology aims to create jet fuel from thin air
A South Yorkshire tech centre has extracted carbon dioxide in a project that could reshape aviation travel
UK cyclist fatalities lowest in 30 years in 2022
The charity Cycling UK has released new analysis showing that the number of people killed while cycling, per billion miles, on British roads fell by nearly a quarter compared with pre-pandemic years.
AI breakthrough could dramatically reduce planes’ global warming impact
Contrails currently account for a third of global warming from aviation
Amsterdam to close cruise ship terminal amid effort to restrict tourism
Move by city council follows action to limit public cannabis use and to discourage wild partying by young Britons