The Swiss Firm MW Line makes solar boats that are ferrying people around lakes and rivers in Switzerland, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. The only backup power, apparently, is on-shore charging from the grid. They’re also the shipbuilder for the PlanetSolar project which plans to have a solar-only craft in the water ready for […]
The new year ushers out two of New York City’s ferry services and welcomes a new one. As of Tuesday, commuters who live near the riverfront in Queens and Brooklyn will no longer be able to skip the subway and cross the river on scheduled boat service. New York Water Taxi suspended service on the […]
In one of those amazing discoveries that makes one appreciate the thousands of years of human information (and other) technology that have led us to the internet, which, admittedly has its share of chaff, it also has some golden wheat: in this case RF Cafe, an amazing reference website which will be of great use […]
Charis Michelsen, writing on GAS 2.0, reports that the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) has broken the distance record for electric vehicles: Electric vehicles records are dropping like flies these days, as more and more vehicles push the boundaries of what’s possible for electric cars, boats, and planes. The latest to fall: the record […]
Treehugger reports that Japan/Taiwan ferry services have ended, with fuel prices forcing the operator into bankruptcy. Read Peak Oil: The End Of Ferry Services Between Japan And Taiwan? See also our prior post on similar events in New York City.