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Researchers create 2D nanomaterials with up to nine metals for extreme conditions

The Evolution of Electric Motors: From Bulky to Lightweight, Efficient Powerhouses

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Kevlar-like EV battery material dissolves after use to recycle itself

Laser connects plane and satellite in breakthrough air-to-space link

Lucid Motors' World-Leading Electric Powertrain Breakdown with Emad Dlala and Eric Bach

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Tiny briefcase engine boosts EV range beyond battery power

Transportation

The Crown has claimed regulatory control of every means of conveyance, stifling the free travel of individuals and their property. This is an intolerable act. Superior transportation technologies already exist, but are suppressed by regulations.

VTOL electric plane with 36 engines has successful test flight and will enable air taxi service

The Lilium Jet successfully completed its maiden test flight series in the skies above Bavaria. The 2-seater Eagle prototype executed a range of complex maneuvers, including its signature mid-air transition from hover mode to wing-borne forward fligh

A cruising airship for VIP excursions

Designed with sightseeing in mind, the Invitation can take off with a dozen VIP passengers and their families

$13,000 DIY Electric Car Drives 340 Miles On 2/3rds Of Its Battery – Video

In order to show the potential of ITAP's hybrid recycling method, they pit a Tesla Model S P90D, Chevrolet Bolt, Nissan LEAF, and "The Phoenix" against each other on a highway range test.

Watch this all-electric 'flying car' take its first test flight in Germany

Lilium Jet claims its can reduce travel headaches with a network of vertical take-off and landing aircraft

Aiming for a new era in airships

It's a plane, it's a helicopter, it's a butt-shaped blimp. The Airlander 10 is like no other aircraft in the skies.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Flying car to go on sale

It may not be quite like the Jetsons, but for over a million dollars you too can soon fly around in a car.

Lilium's Funky 'Jet' Could Make Our Dreams of Flying Cars Come True

Looking at it, you wouldn't think the Lilium Jet could fly. It looks more like a computer mouse than any aircraft you've seen, and its 36 small propellers run on electricity, not jet fuel.

Gas explorer teams up with Lockheed Martin on helium-fuelled airships

Giant helium-fuelled airships could soon be plying the skies - and a Tanzania-based gas explorer hopes to be joining them for the ride.

Towards an Economically Viable roadmap to large scale space colonization

Al Globus and Joe Strout have an analysis that space settlements in low (~500 km) Earth equatorial orbits may not require any radiation shielding at all.

Elon Musk just posted a bunch of pictures of his tunnel and 'Boring' equipment

Elon Musk has begun digging under Los Angeles. The entrepreneur posted Friday several pictures of equipment meant for digging tunnels beneath Los Angeles.

China plans asteroid base for interstellar travel and mining

It's one small step for man, one giant opportunity for miners. With some of Earth's valuable resources dwindling, space mining is looming as the new frontier for world governments.

China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission

Chinese students will live in a laboratory simulating a lunar-like environment for up to 200 days as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon.

TankTwo String Batteries

Franco Gonzales of IDTechEx interviews Bert Holtappels of TankTwo about their battery packs for electric cars at the IDTechEx Show! In Berlin. TankTwo's system is comprised of multiple individual intelligent cells made from same material as traditi

Spacex set for second booster relaunch in June

SpaceX's second re-launch of a previously used Falcon 9 rocket booster is targeted for next month, for a mission launching a Bulgarian communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center.

You Don't Have to Wait for Tesla to Get Your Electric Pickup Truck

Americans love pickup trucks. The mighty Ford F-150 has been the best-selling vehicle in the US for 35 years, and last year the Dodge Ram and Chevrolet Silverado placed second and third. The basic design of this quintessential American vehicle

Naysayer Reality Check: Waymo's Self-Driving Taxi Debuts in Phoenix, for Free

Every time I do a post on self-driving vehicles, readers respond that it cannot happen and won't happen for a decade, if ever.

Is This Finally Our Flying Car?

Every living human being dreams of a flying car.

No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car

CLEARLAKE, Calif. -- On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working for a small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake about 100 miles north of San Francisco.

In the Age of Trump, China Eyes Electric Car Dominance

IF YOU'RE CHARGED up for a world of electric cars, consider booking a trip to China. This week, the world's automakers gathered at the Shanghai Auto Show to reveal their latest wares, pulling the cover of one electric after another.

Commercial flying cars offered for $1.2 to $1.6 million with 2020 delivery

AeroMobil is offering the first flying cars.

Toyota's Still Serious About Hydrogen--It Built a Semi to Prove It

For a while there, the hydrogen fuel cell was the darling of the transportation industry. It would provide the zero emission propulsion of a battery-powered car, the refueling time of a gas-powered car, producing nada but drinkable H20 as a byproduct

Elon Musk Announces Plans To Launch All-Electric Semi Truck In September

All electric, presumably self-driving and gargantuan in size, it could make cargo transportation safer and less detrimental to the environment.

Rumours the US Military Is Testing an EM Drive on the X-37B Space Plane Just Won't Die

Everyone chill.

Elon Musk: Tesla Semi Truck To Debut This September, Pick-Up Truck To Follow

The news flow from Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to be prolific.

Virgin tests space plane's "feather" re-entry system

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity suborbital spacecraft took to the skies over the Mojave desert in an unpowered flight test of the ship's feather re-entry system.

Want Electric Airplanes?

Sorry, But You Gotta Start Small and Boring

Whose is bigger? How all the Mars-bound rockets stack up

Like everything else in the 1960s, NASA's Saturn V rocket set a mark for extreme. At 363 feet tall, with 7.5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, it lifted six moon-bound missions into space. Retired in 1973, it remains the tallest, heaviest, and most

LIFE ON THE HIGH SEAS Incredible pics reveal plans for 460ft luxury superyacht...

Visionary French designer George Lucian hopes his dream yacht will be built one day

NASA is working on a 'vacuum airship' for Mars missions (and 22 other bonkers ideas)

It sounds like something out of science fiction – a vacuum airship filled with empty space, which will soar above the thin atmosphere of Mars.

Robotic Touch: U Researchers Develop Way To Print Bionic Skin

Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they've developed a way to make "bionic skin," technology that could allow robots to feel their environments and humans to wear sensory-enhancing devices directly on their fingertips.

Graphene inherits superconductor qualities when close to superconductors

MIT physicists have found that a flake of graphene, when brought in close proximity with two superconducting materials, can inherit some of those materials' superconducting qualities. As graphene is sandwiched between superconductors, its electroni

The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn's Rings

The Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn's rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe continues a ballistic death-drop inward.

Pint-Size Satellites Promise Spy-Quality Images--Cheap

An Iranian immigrant in Silicon Valley is challenging the $500 million behemoths and touting night shots that pierce cloud cover.

SpaceX plans to launch first internet-providing satellites in 2019

SpaceX has its sights set on Mars, but that doesn't mean it has forgotten about Earth.

Stephen Hawking Is Going Into Space

"But my ultimate ambition is to fly into space. I thought no one would take me, but Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic and I said 'yes' immediately."

Game changing 3D printers for low cost metal parts

A startup will soon launch game changing 3-D printers that can fabricate metal parts cheaply and quickly enough to make the technology practical for widespread use in product design and manufacturing.

What it would actually take to get to Mars by 2020

Today, during a phone call with astronaut Peggy Whitson on the International Space Station, President Trump joked that he hoped NASA would land astronauts on Mars by the end of his first term in 2020.

Space May Be Next Frontier for Earth's Crude Oil Giants, Analyst Says

The Middle East has an outsize impact on energy here on Earth. One analyst thinks some regional powerhouses may leverage that role into the development of natural resources in space.

This New Graphene-Based Electrode Could Boost Solar Storage by 3,000%

Hello, future.

If Your Car Sinks In Water Do This Immediately!

How to escape if your car is submerged in water

Plug-In Cadillac CT6 Has Arrived In The US, Complete With 31 Miles Electric Range

We can count the number of built-in-China, sold-in-the-US vehicles offered today on one hand…but when one of them is a plug-in, we take notice.

Spacex targets 100% reusable rocket by end of 2018

Elon Musk believes that by the end of 2018 Spacex will be able to get to 100% reusable rockets.

Jeff Bezos: The Future Of Mankind Lies In Escape To Outer Space

Technocrats and Transhumans alike see the future of man in the galaxies, rather than on earth. Both Bezos and Elon Musk, among other tech elites, want to colonize the moon as well as Mars. ? TN Editor

Fully-Electric On / Off Road Sport Utility Truck Foundation Revealed By Bollinger Motors

New York-based Bollinger Motors is set to debut its upcoming all-electric, on and off road, sport utility truck to the media this summer, in its home state.

Volocopter 2 air taxi uses swappable batteries to stay on the move

One year ago, German company e-volo caught our attention by sending its crazy 18-rotor Volocopter into the sky with a living, breathing human aboard. With an eye to actually deploying this thing as a personal flying taxi some time in the future, it h

Bigelow Space stations

NASA currently is pushing forward plans for a cislunar base that is similar in size to the Skylab space station of the 1970s.

Flyboard Air by ZR Naples Florida

This is the first Flyboard Air by ZR demonstration during the Flyboard World CUP 2016 in Naples Florida

Hybrid electric passenger jets could be commercialized by a Boeing and Jet Blue ...

backed startup in the 2020s ...The United States has 13500 small airports but 140 of largest carry over 97% of the air traffic. Zunum Aero (a startup backed by Boeing and Jet Blue) believes electric aircraft of varying sizes are ideally suited to thi

Airlander 10 airship gets outfitted for cushier landings

Hybrid Air Vehicles' Airlander 10 airship, which is the world's largest aircraft, has just been improved.

Smarter batteries help U-Boat Worx dive deeper for longer

Saying a company is "plumbing new depths" isn't usually a compliment, but it's high praise for U-Boat Worx.
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