Transportation

Israeli Parents Organize "Walking Bus" to Transport Schoolchildren

Groups of parents in the Israeli cities of Kiryat Ono, Raanana and elsewhere have organized "walking schoolbuses" to transport children to school in the...

Hugo Tour Fires Up the "Tour Engine" Between Cycles of Hot and Cold

After 30 years spent servicing Israel's military aircraft, engineer Hugo Tour decided to redesign a car's internal combustion engine to make it twice as...

Israel Railways Teams Up With Better Place To Refuel Electric Car Commuters

 Refueling newly developed electric cars in Israel may be one step closer to being commonplace with an agreement reached between Israel Railways and the...

New Israel Vehicle Green Tax Stiffs Hybrids

A new Israeli government "green tax", scheduled to come into effect next month on new imported cars, is being contested by car importers, and...

Study Says World Driver To Go "Total Electric" By 2030

Although the year 2030 is only some 20 years away, many drivers in developed countries may be driving electric powered cars by then. This...

Ford To Replace Spark Plugs With Freakin’ Lasers by 2011

In a move that is sure to be a stepping stone to the flying car, Ford is currently testing a new type of laser...

15K Israelis Retrofit Hotrods, Cars and Trucks To Power With Propane

It's much less expensive than regular refined gasoline, and they won't let your car into a below ground shopping mall parking lot if you...

Tel Aviv Cyclists Use Their Hot Bodies to Protest the Naked Truth About Urban Cycling in Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNqEkIjLxdc Around two weeks ago, the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation decided not to support a bill that would encourage bike riding as transportation.  The...

Looking for Green Innovation at the Paris Air Show

With the aviation industry reeling from increasing fuel costs, dipping profits and those pesky upcoming environmental regulations, airlines are scrambling to become more efficient,...

Peace Cycle Takes Bikers Through West Bank

We've posted here before about a Walk About Love, a hike for Israel and a bike ride to benefit Israel's environment. This October, get...

Go Hybrid and Pay Less Car Tax in Israel

The Israel finance ministry is planning new regulations on car purchasing, with special discount incentives for purchasing hybrid cars, according to Reuters. The new changes...

Anywhere You Go FreeGo, Electric Scooters in Tel Aviv

When it comes to transportation around Tel Aviv, there are a number of alternatives to driving a car. For longer commutes, riding public...

Zero S Motorbike Gives "Electric" Thrills In Cities and Sand Dunes

(Zero S electric road bike goes from 0 to 50 km/hr in just 2 seconds, and can maintain speed for 2 hours on single...

Israel's Ben Gurion Airport To Get Green Facelift

Not only are Middle Eastern airlines such as Qatar Airlines and airports getting involved in "greening up their act." Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, one...

As Better Place Tests Battery Replacement Technology in Japan, Is Better Place the Best Electric Car Company?

Shai Agassi’s Better Place electric car company seemed to be on the right track with their conception of a totally electric family sized car. The...

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Endangered sperm whale washes ashore in southern Israel

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Xcimer is the Denver-based startup that could put Saudi Arabia out of business

An American company can collapse OPEC if they can prove their approach to unlimited energy works.

The Saudi Startup Turning Desalination’s Toxic Waste Into Its Own Disinfectant

For millennia, the Middle East's water crisis seemed an immutable fact of geography — a region defined as much by what it lacked as by what lay beneath its sands. Today, a convergence of plummeting solar costs, advancing membrane technology, and hard-won engineering expertise is rewriting that story.

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