Nissan, Renault and Dongfeng to produce new $8,000 electric car in China
A business venture between Nissan, Renault and Dongfeng has been signed to form eGT New Energy Automotive Company, which will produce electric cars for the ...
Bosch proposes synthetic fuels that are carbon neutral
Though the automotive industry is largely investing in EV and hybrid technologies, the German manufacturer Bosch proposes using synthetic fuels that are ...
Monitoring air pollution in real time
Several places in China, Singapore and Japan have installed the air pollution monitor PX-375 by Horiba. Manual lab analysis is not necessary with this ...
Toughest plastic bag ban implemented in Kenya
Kenya joins a growing number of other nations including Rwanda, Mauritania, France and Eritrea outlawing the production and use of plastic bags. The ...
City in Iowa gets rid of its downtown traffic lights; creates ‘low-speed urban environment’
Cedar Rapids, the second-largest city in Iowa is disassembling its traffic lights in the downtown area. Intersections will instead be controlled by two- ...
Quick-charge EV stations from second-life batteries on highways
Connected Energy and Groupe Renault installed two fast charge EV charging stations on highways in Germany and Belgium – motorists there are the first ...
How to implement land-based finance for urban infrastructure
In order to run a city effectively, land registries including street names and addresses, are essential. A considerably number of cities around the world ...
Start-up company Bin.E design ‘smart waste bin’
Sorting and separating waste could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a ‘smart bin’ developed by the start-up company Bin.E. The bin ...
Partnership to foster “designed-in cybersecurity” for smart city systems
The 2018 Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) which is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Department of ...
Environmental challenge by battery waste of electric vehicles
Efforts by the automobile industry and governments to replace diesel and petrol vehicles with electric ones is accelerating lately. Their environmental ...
