Sea Bubbles Introduce Hydrofoils as River Taxi
Sea Bubbles, a French startup founded by Anders Bringdal two times windsurf world champion in 2009 and 2010 and Alain Thebault, the inventor of the Hydroptere is introducing an app […]
Indian Railways Offer Cleaner Power and More Seats
The Indian Railways is adopting the Head On Generation (HOG) system for supplying power to run air conditioning, lighting and fans in LHB rakes which till now needed additional diesel […]
New Way to Navigate! Tata Motors
Tata Motors has entered into a tie up with what3words, an innovative location technology provider. They are the first company in India to offer this service. This system allows drivers […]
Volocopter Showcase Sustainable Air Taxi
German specialist aviation company Volocopter showcased their electric powered Volocopter during the “Vision Smart City – Experience future mobility today” event held at Stuttgart. The company, which specialises in building […]
EDAG Engineering – CityBot: Transport Concept for Future
EDAG Engineering GmbH of Germany showcased their new concept for future transportation at the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA. The concept is a modular and configurable transportation system. It draws on […]
World’s Fastest Autonomous Car
The world is slowly but steadily developing self driven and autonomous cars. Though personally I am not a fan of such an idea, forget the product, but the engineer in […]
Connected Trains for Better Service
A study by Frost and Sullivan has brought out that there is an increased emphasis on digitalisation in the railways to offer better services to passengers as well as logistics […]
Shipping May Not Turn Green Soon
Majority of the maritime trade happens by sea. These ships transport millions of tons of material across thousands of miles to every corner of the globe. This requires that these […]
Fuel Cell the Way Ahead for Railways?
Several efforts are underway to cut the carbon footprint of railways. The first stop was to build overhead traction over several hundreds of thousands of kilometers. However, this is an […]
Fraunhofer Institute Reveals Solar Roof at Frankfurt
At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the thunder was stolen not by an automobile company but by a research institute. The Fraunhofer Institute of Germany has revealed a solar roof for […]
Hybrid Propulsion for Aircraft
The global aviation industry generates 2.4% of total carbon di oxide and 12% of all green house gases. However, the need to meet weight and safety regulations does not allow […]
Lithium-Ion Batteries for Indian Railways Shunters
The Chittaranjan Locomotive Works of the Indian Railways will be buildig 10 locomotives that would operate using Lithium-Ion battery packs. As the range of these locomotives would be limited, they […]
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle – AUV
Man has always been looking at finding ways and means to do dangerous stuff safely. A lot of activities which we do as routine or for fun and thrill can […]
How HOVs Work?
In my last post, I had discussed about the Human Occupied Vehicles used for deep sea exploration. These are manned submersibles which are designed to dive to extreme depths exceeding […]
Future of Rail Travel – Hyper Loop
I stay in Pune. A city which has been the hub of industrialisation in India. Pune is home to some of the largest manufacturing companies from across the Globe. A […]
