A happy message from Groningen: a trial is starting with electric bicycles powered by hydrogen. The hydrogen bike is expensive, almost €10,000, but for now, you can get a discount of €2500. On Twitter, this message led to a creative…
“Flying 400 people across the ocean in an electric airplane is something we need to put out of our minds,” claims Joris Melkert, lecturer in aeronautical engineering at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, The Netherlands). Together with Paul…
Anyone going to a music festival in Germany this fall has a good chance of being sniffed by a dog at the entrance to test for corona. Dogs appear to be perfectly capable of quickly and reliably detecting an infection…
“No customer or dealer has ever asked us to make a hybrid or electric car,” says Horacio Pagani. He is the man behind and the namesake of one of the world’s most exclusive supercars (starting at €3.5 million, excluding VAT).…
A team of researchers at Joanneum Research in Austria in cooperation with Osaka University, Japan, has developed an ultra-thin sensor that can measure various vital signs as well as absorb energy. Two years of research were spent on a barely…
Researchers at Imperial College London have developed living 3D building elements that are capable of repairing themselves if they are damaged. Imperial announced this in a press release and in a study published in the journal Nature Communications. Imperial lists…
Smart cities, 5G and autonomous driving hold the promise to improve the quality of life in the future. But these technologies also require a massive increase in computer processing power. This is a challenge that current microprocessors have been unable…
BMW does not have the best name in the field of electromobility. A few years ago, the automobile manufacturer from Munich was still being celebrated as the frontrunner in its own country with the i3 electric model. But that is…
Anyone who looks at the Facebook pages of politicians generally has no idea whether they have ended up on the page of a seasoned influencer or on that of an actual politician. This ambiguity stems from the never-ending stream of…
The Dutch government has great ambitions for hydrogen. The National Hydrogen Program demonstrates that the government wants to go all-out for hydrogen as the energy system of the future. But how is our hydrogen society and economy faring? In the…