Future Transport: ready for takeoff or overhyped?
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- May 25, 2018
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Reilly Brennan on his investment of $20million in 24 driverless car start-up companies.
New power - batteries
Sales of electric vehicles are growing and experts believe that trend will continue because the fuel is cheaper, maintenance is lower and they create less air pollution. Although they can be a bit more expensive to buy than conventional cars, the cost is also expected to fall as battery costs drop. In the three year period from 2014 to 2016, battery costs fell by more than 50%.
The range of electric vehicles is also improving. That's important because motorists need to overcome ‘range anxiety,’ or fears that a battery cannot take them as far as a tank of traditional fuel. Some EV’s can now drive well over 300 miles on a single charge.
High speed rail
Hyperloop is a new kind of transport, where passengers are loaded into pods which can glide at speeds of up to 700mph down a low pressurised tube. The pod floats above the track using magnets, and moves using electric propulsion. They say it could get you from London to Edinburgh is less than an hour.
The Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk first proposed a line between Los Angeles and San Francisco for the price of bus ticket. He's created the Boring Company and is building a tunnel in Los Angeles to test the technology.
Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop One has built a 500 metre test track in Nevada and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is building a prototype in France.
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