VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

Please do for us, yourself, or our city a favour and vote for URBAN MOBILITY BERLIN. We took part in the „Urban Mobility Challenge: Berlin 2030“ competition. just takes a few seconds: klick at the link → login to vote → vote: „excellent“ → finished *THANKS* and dont’t forget „verify e-mail address“. Make the city…

They Must Unite! Taxi Protest Against Uber!

From our Studio in Berlin we just had a great view over the taxi protest round up at Ernst-Reuter Platz. The taxi industry unites in many european cities today against the 17 billion dollar company Uber and their fellows. Around 1000 taxis just passed by the 17th of June Street to show their anger and fear…

Apply Now For The 2014 Program

Startupbootcamp Berlin is the leading global startup accelerator with a focus on Smart Transportation & Energy – The Connected and Efficient Mobility of People and Goods. The Berlin program has pivoted to focus on Smart Transportation and Energy, and a new program is being built in San Francisco with a planned launch in the Fall of 2014. They come…

Brose E-Bike Engine

There are just a few serious big companies like Bosch and Panasonic sharing the market of electric engines for pedelecs and s-pedelecs. This year (2014) they might get serious competition by the lightweight Brose E-Bike Engine from continental. This continental engine weights just 3.4 kilograms which is 25 % less of the competitors. The new 240 times…

Flashback electrified!

Whoever visited Berlin recently – no way to get around this marketing bomb: The visitor’s-days by Volkswagen’s e-mobility week at Berlin Tempelhof. Several big events using the motto “electrified!” which included electric beats as well as test driving the new e-Golf, the e- up and some plug-in-hybrids. We’ve been there to check out the meaning…

Einladung zur Umfrage

https://www.soscisurvey.de/urbanmobility/ Mobilität betrifft uns alle! Mit nur 17 Fragen zu deinem Verkehrsverhalten unterstützt du nicht nur unsere Masterarbeit, sondern hast auch die Möglichkeit, die Zukunft in Fragen Mobilität mit zu gestalten. Diese Befragung findet im Kontext unserer Masterarbeit statt und ist eine rein wissenschaftliche Umfrage ohne kommerzielle Interessen. Es gibt kein “richtig” oder “falsch” und…

For Bike’s Safety

Since a few days you can see these traffic displays in Berlin with a new message: Keep at least 1,5 meters distance to cyclistes while overtaking! I was actually wondering weather this text is displaeyed due to a rising amount of accidents between cars and cyclists or if the amount of cyclist itself is increasing!…

A Great Event About Urban Riding Culture – March 22nd

See you there! More information at berlinerfahrradschau.de Ever since it moved into the picturesque halls of the postal freight depot at the STATION-Berlin on Gleisdreieck in 2010, the BERLINER FAHRRADSCHAU has established itself as a contemporary and independent trade fair for bicycle culture and lifestyle. Urban bicycle themes, bicycle accessories, and bicycle fashion are the special…

One year of urban biking in Berlin

This morning I joined a seminar with Till Nagel. One of his amazing projects was a little gift to his mother, where he mapped his monthly bike ride – visualized a little postcard from the data an sent it back to his mother. Nice! Check out his amazing work on urban data visualizations at tillnagel.com

Fucked up streets for arts sake!

Cold winter seasons harm serious damage to the streets every year. As the streets age, their conditions get worse rapidly. Deep cracks draw through the pavement, and cause deep wholes. The artists from http://www.mypotholes.com made me grin. With a different point of view, they transform damaged streets into charming, artsy scenes. The city is a playground and…

Elio Motors never heard about it?

Me neither. But with their video “Elio Motors: Join the Revolution” they grab my attention. Elios promises: Three wheeled vehicle two seats 8 gallon tank (30.3 l) range 672 miles on a tank (1081,45 km) 1 gallon 84 mpg (2.8 l pro 100 km) over 100 mph (160 km/h) reinforced roll cage 3 air bags…

The first electric self-driving shuttle on sale.

Navia is an innovative mobility solution: a robotic driverless electric vehicle carrying up to eight passengers. Navia has been designed to complement conventional transport (public or private) by taking care of the “last mile” (and the first). Navia is the ideal companion for those environments that need a simple, safe and environment-friendly mobility solution: pedestrianized…

Adding sounds to cars for safety reasons.

Electric cars are quiet. That is one of the good features and it is perhaps the reason to buy one. It is also a danger to pedestrians if these super fast, nearly quiet vehicles came around. Especially for those which don’t expect that and blind people. The discussion in the US and in the UN…

Lars Thomsen speech, the past September, at the 25th International AVL Conference “Engine & Environment” in Graz, Austria

Lars Thomsen can “predict” the future. He is one of the futurist and gives a small view into his world. (in German) He shows some comparison to what NOKIA happened, when Apple released the iPhone. Is the auto industry at a similar point? Battery prices will fall, he says, and public charging infrastructure will continue…

Post and electric vehicle? Fits perfect!

The French post “La Poste” ordered 10 000 electric Kangoo Van Z.E in 2011 from Renault and they want to increase their fleet up to 60 000 electric vehicles in 2050. In march “la Post” is about to test a concept with hydrogen fuel cell range extenders in the so called “HyKangoos”. Source http://www.laposte.com/Everything-about-La-Poste/Press-releases/Latest-articles http://www.symbiofcell.com/downl/hykangoo-uk2013.pdf…