Transportation

Better Place Electric Car Spotting

Maurice Picow - May 30, 2012

Seeing a prototype Better Place EV car is a lot different than the real thing on the road. Photo by Maurice Picow More than five...

Transportation

Outlaw Biking with Headphones Say Israeli Lawmakers in World First Ban

Leigh Cuen - May 29, 2012

Headphones kill pedestrians and cyclists who can't hear traffic. Israel proposes new legislation to ban the music while cycling. Israel is rapidly becoming a nation of bikers,...

Transportation

Track the Sun-Powered Solar Impulse Flight to Spain and Morocco

Tafline Laylin - May 24, 2012

As I write this, the Solar Impulse is traveling 94.2 km/h at an altitude of 7,016 meters en route to Madrid, where co-pilots Bertrand...

Transportation

Volvo’s C30 Electric Car Combines Green Technology With Safety

Maurice Picow - May 22, 2012

Volvo's new C30 electric model emphasizes safety over performance Electric cars, including the Better Place Renault Fluence EV, of which 100 cars were launched on...

Transportation

Better Place Electric Car Network Begins in Israel

Brian Nitz - May 20, 2012

Better Place revs up its charge spots in Israel Shai Agassi hopes Israel is ready to embrace the efficiency and economics of electric cars. His...

Transportation

Carpooling Services for Lebanese Students

Linda Pappagallo - May 12, 2012

Visit Autopooling.com to car pool in Lebanon. It is often true that through hardship people naturally become more resourceful. Carpooling first became prominent in the...

Transportation

Jet Engine Sponge Makes Airports Less Sensual

Faisal O'Keefe - May 9, 2012

A new adaptor ring cuts noise pollution at airports. Airports are like Desperate Housewives. Unpopular neighbors, but crazy sensual. You can see them, feel them, smell...

Cities

Strange Chlorine Gas Smell Takes Over Tel Aviv

Maurice Picow - May 3, 2012

Tel Aviv's mysterious gas smell is nothing compared to Cairo's annual "black cloud". Tel Aviv is Israel's largest city, and at times has been so...

Transportation

Drifting Driving a Sin in Saudi Arabia

Faisal O'Keefe - November 25, 2021

You see all kinds of weird transportation in the Middle East: but the worst is drifting where young Arab males purposefully "drift" their cars...

Cities

The Weird Science of Pedestrian Behavior Might Help Hajj

Faisal O'Keefe - May 2, 2012

Math helps us understand how people flow, and just maybe it could help Hajj pilgrims stay safe. A Californian jogs to the beach. Coming...

Transportation

Morocco to Build Cars in Zero Carbon Factory

Susan Kraemer - April 27, 2012

Morocco's zero-carbon car factory opening earlier this month, via NY Times. The CEO of Renault–Nissan alliance Carlos Ghosn and Moroccan King Mohammed VI inaugerated French...

Business

Biodiesel Money Machine Collects Old Cooking Oil In Turkey

Julia Harte - April 18, 2012

"Bring waste oil, take away money" reads this advertisement for BAYTOM, a machine that incentivizes Turks to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. In Turkish cities...

Transportation

World’s Longest Solar-Powered Flight Will Land in Morocco!

Tafline Laylin - April 2, 2012

The Solar Impulse flies from Switzerland into the Moroccan sun. Just 107 years after the Wright Brothers became famous for successfully flying the world's first...

Transportation