There is a five-and-a-half mile bike path sitting in the middle of an eight-lane highway, topped with a solar panel that lights up the streets below in South Korea. But this is no regular bike path.
Apparently, solar panels aren't just for roofs anymore. The Dutch company SolaRoad has long planned to build bike paths and roadways with embedded solar panels, using nominally open space for ...
Ever since the first solar panels were created, researchers have been looking for ways to use this type of technology in the transportation industry. The idea of integrating solar panels in the ...
The urban mobility sector is charting a path toward a better future with smarter and cleaner modes of transportation. While electric bikes running on rechargeable batteries have already become ...
Miami is blessed with both a remarkably flat landscape and hundreds of days worth of tropical sunshine. In any logical universe, the Magic City would be a haven for both urban cyclists and solar power ...
Sunny day bike rides are about to get even better. Infinite Mobility, an e-bike startup out of Norway, revealed its solar-powered cargo e-bike called the Inga. We’ve seen plenty of cargo e-bikes out ...
If we want it, the road could literally be paved to a renewable energy future. A pilot test of the technology turned out a great success. One year after a bike path outside Amsterdam was plastered ...
At the beginning of the year, news readers were treated to images of German police forcefully removing climate activists from the village of Lützerath to make way for an open-air coal mine. Indeed, ...
As far as electric vehicles go, electric bicycles are famously energy-efficient. Most can easily travel 100 miles (160 km) on around $1 of electricity. But what if instead of paying for that ...
South Korea’s solar bike highway is both incredible and exasperating. The road, which runs between Daejon and Sejong, is covered for its entire 20-mile-length with a roof of solar panels. Those panels ...