From Oslo to Hamburg. The cities giving up on cars
Una rivoluzione verde quella che sta coinvolgendo i centri di molte città europee. Puntando su trasporto pubblico, ciclabile e sullo sharing.
Young people and cars: bicycles, computers and smartphones are better
Smartphones and bicycles instead of cars. This is what teenagers these days prefer, while, on the contrary, in former times, young people craved to pass their driving test and get a car, as a means to become more independent adults. So, it’s not due to diesel emissions scandal that Germans don’t drive as they did
Bike-friendly Poland: the highs and lows of an unexpected success
Poland has surprised everyone as regards the use of bicycles and cycling infrastructures: in the 2014 edition of the European cycling challenge the top five cities were exclusively Polish and Italian. Rome thought to be the favourite even if it isn’t exactly a bike-friendly city, still, it ranked third after two Polish cities: the
This electric bus can travel (almost) 500 kilometres on a single charge
Costruito da zero per essere un autobus elettrico da un ex dipendente di Tesla Motors, il mezzo ha raggiunto il record di autonomia con una singola carica.
PulsaR, the Italian bicycle that runs as fast as a car
Riding a bike at more than 100 km/h must be a strange sensation. That’s what happened to Andrea Gallo who set the Italian speed record with a human-powered vehicle. The prototype PulsaR reached almost 117 km/h during the World Human Powered Speed Challenge that took place in Battle Mountains, Nevada, United States. PulsaR was
Salvaiciclisti becomes an association aimed to defend cyclists and the GRAB
On Saturday 10 October, Salvaiciclisti, the movement that managed to gather thousands of cyclists on 28 April 2012 crowding with bikes via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, decided to take the big step of becoming an association, a formally and legally recognised reality that dialogue with institutions but has its voice heard to the sound of
H2 bike, the e-bike that doesn’t need batteries: it runs on hydrogen
Linde Group ha testato il primo prototipo di bicicletta a pedalata assistita a idrogeno. Niente pacco batterie, al suo posto una ricarica di H2.
Ride to Freedom, youngsters ride through the U.S. against Falun Gong persecutions
Almost fifty kilometres riding from coast to coast throughout the United States, from Los Angeles to New York, to raise awareness globally about the persecution of those who follow the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. This is the aim of Ride to Freedom, a group of young people who decided to spend their summer participating in
P’tit Vélib, Paris’ bike-sharing programme for children
Paris is increasingly embracing soft mobility, that’s why it created a special cycle-sharing service. Following the day without cars in late September, the Champs-Élysées were crowded with people, resulting in an increase by 32 percent in the use of bike-sharing service Vélib compared to a usual Sunday. Similarly, Paris’ white night, organised in October, encouraged citizens
Seville, southern Europe’s queen of bicycles
Seville dreams big about cycling mobility, in the wake of the actions undertaken by cities like Nantes or Lubiana; so, not exclusively Northern Europe can invest adequately in bicycles as the means of transport of the future. Figures on bike infrastructures in Seville From 2006 to 2011, in the Spanish city the number of cyclists increased tenfold,