Graham – the car alien –

You shouldn’t wait until evolution took place. The artificial person “Graham” shows the face of our future. So… leave the car behind and take the bike! MEET GRAHAM http://www.meetgraham.com.au/

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…

What I’m searching for?

Japan’s prime minister rides in it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEPdvl3OFk0) U.K. promises to have some on the road by 2017 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGIsvLpdF-g) Toyota will be on the road with it by the ‘mid-2010s’ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) attorney calls it “premature” Audi, BMW, Ford, Google, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Toyota, VW and and and trying to be ready…

Courier talk: Electric bicycles

I talked to a bike courier an hour ago and that’s what he told me about electric bicycles… (Berlin) “I mention them much more often and they are damn fast, when I met one at a traffic light I have to struggle to get him, no matter which age ore body fitness… I already thought…

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…

The costs of batteries for electric vehicles will dump in the coming years!

Estimates of electric-vehicle battery costs (first published in Tech Review, Jan 2012 issue) The industry hotly debates how much and fast the costs will fall. In 2020 it should be about half what they were in 2011, when the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt launched.