Decarbonizing roads and their uses is a major challenge if we are to make mobility much more respectful of the environment. This challenge will inevitably involve the electrification of vehicles and infrastructure. Technical solutions are being deployed, but the pace of transition is not sufficiently rapid.
PlusIt will be a technological revolution with major social and cultural impacts that the arrival on the market of autonomous cars will bring. The result will be real business opportunities, even for companies that have not yet forged any apparent links with the automotive industry, such as Alphabet's autonomous driving subsidiary, Alphabet
PlusFourth resurgence - 2010 years The electric car is experiencing a new resurgence starting in 2010. While there are several reasons for this resurgence, the great motivation for this rebirth is, more than ever, the fight against global warming. The latter is accompanied by logical measures to reduce production
PlusSecond resurgence - 1970s But the electric car (EV) has not completely disappeared. As California's smog finds its culprit, the thermal car, the battery manufacturer NUE (National Union Electric) and Eureka Williams, a household appliance company, propose to manufacture an EV in response to this nuisance, to
PlusEmergence of EVs - 1890s In the early days of the automobile, EVs were on an equal footing with combustion-powered vehicles. Unlike combustion-powered vehicles, EVs had a number of significant advantages. It was clean, discreet, silent, easy and pleasant to drive, and its acceleration was continuous and progressive. It
PlusThis Thursday, October 4, the Mondial de l'Automobile Porte de Versailles in Paris opens for ten days and is expected to attract more than a million visitors. This 120th edition marks a profound change, forced to reinvent itself to embody a mobility sector in full transformation. And it is unquestionably the advent
PlusLes véhicules propres ou hybrides ont représenté plus de la moitié des ventes de voitures neuves l’an dernier en Norvège, montrent des statistiques publiées mercredi, confirmant le rôle pionnier du pays dans l’électrification des transports. Les voitures zéro émission (tout-électrique et, pour une portion congrue, à hydrogène) se sont
PlusElon Musk, an archetypal Silicon Valley entrepreneur, cut out for a blockbuster from Marvel Studios, believes he can change the world and solve its fundamental problems. Some of his companies - PayPal, SpaceX, Hyperloop, and Tesla - aim to rethink structural industries: banking, space, transportation, and energy.
PlusA few weeks ago, at the beginning of June, the annual report on the development of renewable energy in the world (see the report) informed us that, for the first time, the renewable power installed in 2016 had exceeded new fossil fuel production capacity, with 161 GW installed. In total, the
PlusParis s’apprête à accueillir 80 chefs d’Etat en décembre pour l’événement qui nous donne des sueurs froides : la COP 21. Sauront-ils se mettre d’accord pour que le monde ne sombre dans le désastre sous brève échéance ? Le mot à la mode ces jours-ci est « le verre à moitié plein ou
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