An electric airplane has set a new world record. The electric-drive Extra 330LE aerobatics plane set the record in the category of “Electric aircraft ...
Uber breakfast service in London
Uber’s subcontractor “UberEATS”, launched last summer in London, has proved to be very successful. Now the on-demand food delivery ...
Miami to become smartest city in the USA
Due to a new partnership with CIVIQ Smartscapes, Miami is going to launch the first fully interconnected smart city ecosystem in the U.S. CIVIQ is ...
Ireland to divest from fossil fuels
Ireland could become the first country to fully divest its wealth found from fossil fuels. On Thursday last week, the parliament voted 90 to 53 in favour ...
Three cities show how to make progress on the local level
One year after adopting the Sustainable Development Goals, measures are put into practice especially at the local level. 17 goals have an explicitly urban ...
Largest collaboration between insurance industry and cities
UN Environment’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) abd ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) have joined to create the largest ...
The financial benefits of autonomous driving
Global Positioning Specialists calculated the potential GDP savings through driverless cars in more than 73 countries. The US tops the list of 340 billion ...
New Ford SmartLink system upgrades ICT features of older cars
Owners of Ford and Lincoln vehicles produced in the years 2010-2016, now have the opportunity to install the new Ford SmartLink system that adds ...
New NASA satellite greatly improves weather events prediction
Last November NASA launched its GOES-16 weather satellite into the orbit about 22,000 miles from the earth. On January 15, it sent back pictures for the ...
Two major projects to reduce costs of hydrogen fuel cell buses launched
On January, 25 two research projects were officially launched that aim at reducing costs of hydrogen fuel cell buses. The projects are worth 125 million ...
