Segway prepares Max G30 e-scooter for the long commute
With Europe's biggest tech show looming, Segway-Ninebot has announced the Max G30, an electric kickscooter that's claimed to have the longest battery range in its class.
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Audi takes a one-handed approach to last mile e-scooting
There are many electric kickscooters to buy or hire and they pretty much all follow the same basic design blueprint. Audi's new e-tron Scooter is a little different, sporting four wheels and a one hand-friendly triangular steering handle.
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Elon Musk to take his tunneling ambitions to China
Elon Musk revealed over the weekend that a new arm of the tunneling venture, The Boring Company, is in the works for China, a place where his electric car company also happens to be making some inroads.
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Compact full-suspension electric scooter folds into shoulder bag for easy transport
Though folding e-scooters are nothing new, you generally have to carry them about in your hands between rides. The MiniFalcon has been designed to be collapsed down in three steps and stowed away in its own ukulele-sized backpack.
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Autonomous combine set to harvest Russian fields
Russia's largest agricultural holding company has joined forces with AI development firm Cognitive Technologies to pilot autonomous crop management on 665,000 hectares of land. It is hoped that the technology will help reduce crop losses while also improving farming efficiency.
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Yamaha eyes production for its oddball Tritown tilting three-wheeler
Yamaha’s Tritown personal mobility vehicle was far from the most eye-catching on the floor of the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show, but the company certainly has faith in the three-wheeler's practicality as it moves through a series of field tests with one eye on a developing production version.
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World's longest hyperloop track in the works for Saudi Arabia
Virgin Hyperloop One has expanded its relationship with Saudi Arabia, with the two announcing plans to develop a new test track in the country’s west. The facility would become the world’s longest hyperloop tube as the gulf nation eyes a wider rollout of the futuristic transport system.
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Hyperloop hits record speeds at SpaceX's 2019 Pod competition
SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod competition continues to bring out the very best in student engineering teams from all around the world. The reigning champions from the Technical University of Munich have returned this year to fend off their challengers, setting a new speed record in the process.
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Autonomous shuttle bus begins Australian trial
EasyMile's EZ10 self-driving shuttle buses have already been trialled in Singapore, California, Switzerland, and Finland. Now, one has also entered use in what is being called regional Australia’s first automated vehicle trial.
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World's largest underground bike parking center nears completion
Ector Hoogstad Architects is behind the creation of the world's largest bicycle parking center, which is part of a grand scale redevelopment of the Utrecht Centraal Railway Station in the Netherlands and boasts an innovative layout that manages the flow of both pedestrians and cyclists.
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