urban transport

Forget the skateboard chassis; Swedish brand Scania is exploring something that's much more of a hoverboard chassis. Its NXT autonomous EV concept uses detachable front and rear axles as the basis of a modular vehicle system that can go from dropping kids at school to dropping garbage at the dump.

​Germany's Sono Motors has inched a little closer to production of the Sion family EV first announced in 2016. After opening pre-orders for the car in July, 2017, the startup announced a substantial price bump in November last year. Now the first series design images have been released.​

Citroën’s latest solution to increasingly crowded urban centers and urban mobility is a boxy electric two-seater concept imagined as an alternative for buses, bikes and scooters, even for those without a license to drive.

Sono Motors has confirmed powertrain and battery details for its Sion family EV, which features solar panels on the hood, roof and body that provide a little extra range. Along with a price rise.​

​Citing pollution and road trauma statistics, the Hanoi People's Council has voted overwhelmingly in favor of banning motorcycles in the inner city by 2030. Instead, the city is aiming to develop public transport to better serve its 7.6 million residents.

As we look forward to a 21st century filled with massive mega-cities, and extraordinary technological innovation, we must ask how are our science fiction visions influencing the cities we build, and what can we learn from some of these prescient fictional texts?

​Since rolling onto the scene in the early 2000s, Segway hasn't been afraid to make modifications to its self-balancing two-wheelers in search of other practical applications. Loomo is the latest to be wheeled out and sees the Segway take the form of both mobility option and robotic assistant.

We've covered many folding electric scooters over recent years, from slim stand-up designs to larger sit-atop models. The all-new Relync R1 takes a different form than most with a three-wheel, sit-down chassis that folds instantly and packs down to suitcase size.

As flashy as electric cars like the Byton Concept and Fisker EMotion are, the most eye-grabbing vehicle at CES might be the Ujet electric scooter. Ujet calls it a sculptural, asymmetrical design, and it's driven by distinctive equipment like the center-less orbital wheels and full technology suite.

BMW's Group Technology Office in Shanghai has put forward a mobility concept for megacities that would raise zero-emission single-track commuters above ground roads using a giant network of elevated pathways that snake through the city between key transit points.

​After peeling back the curtain on an electrified version of its iconic Vespa at EICMA last year, Piaggo has now revealed a few key specs of the Vespa Elettrica, which leads the storied scooter brand's charge into electric mobility.

Former Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman has concocted a prototype that sounds like something you’d see in an ACME catalog: electric shoes. Ahead of a crowdfunding campaign for the project, New Atlas spoke to Hyneman about how and why you’d mechanize shoes, and just what you might use them for.