Mobility

China boosts investment in Europe, led by electric vehicles

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano China is close, wallet in hand. After seven years of steady contraction, Chinese investment in Eur...

Startup, Meight: Data and AI to Optimise Freight Logistics

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Meight is a startup that originated as a spin-off from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is based in...

Startup, It’s electric: Recharging EVs with Excess Energy from Buildings

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Founded in 2022 by Tiya Gordon and Nathan King, it's electric is a startup that aims to make elect...

EU pellet regulation: environment and health sacrificed in the name of simplification

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Started in October 2023 as part of the Zero Pollution Action Plan promoted by the former European ...

Smart parking policies improve city dwellers’ lives

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano When the makeover of Piazza del Popol Giost was completed at the beginning of March, residents of ...

The future of mobility: interviews from RM55

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Think Tank section of issue 55 of Renewable Matter, focused on transport and sustainable mobil...

The Future is Public Transport

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano I am often asked: what does the city of the future look like? If we succeed in overcoming the clim...

Gate 15

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Ever since the beginning of time, humans have travelled, harnessing animals and carving logs, buil...

Smart City Expo 2024: Building Tomorrow’s Cities Today

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano By 2050, the global population will reach 10 billion, with nearly 70% living in urban areas. Citie...

Startup, Bike Club: bicycles for children that change as they grow

Bike Club is revolutionizing the children's (but also adults') bicycle industry by providing families with the opportunity to subscribe online to new or refurbished bicycles and scooters and to...

Will battery swapping be the next revolution in the electrical vehicle scene?

One of the biggest challenges to electrifying a fleet of vehicles — aside from adjusting to the range and limitations of the vehicles themselves — is building up the expensive charging infrastru...

Covestro open a new area of application for CO2 in plastics production: the automotive industry

In addition to mattresses, sports floors and textile fibres, Covestro has opened up a further area of application for the use of CO2 in plastics production: now foams for the automotive industry can...

Digital Tech & Sustainability Combine for Harmonious Territorial Development

Data collection, coordination between different urban infrastructures, support to decision-making processes: these are the sectors in which digital and sustainability technologies can provide crucia...

Sustainability travels by train

The rail sector is changing and becoming ever greener, by reducing fuel consumption and emissions, introducing new technologies like hydrogen engines, and focusing on the circularity of processes an...

Searching for the circular car

Creating a platform for all the players in the automotive supply chain that relies on field knowledge, partnerships, funding and creativity to develop the technologies and business models of the car...

Hydrogen Future

The Clean Hydrogen industry can avoid 82 million-ton CO2 emissions per year in the EU and create 140,000-170,000 jobs: a vital contribution to the European Green Deal.Carbon Neutrality is not achiev...

The Pros and Cons of Reducing Transport Emissions Using LNG

Heavy haul transport has to understand which path to choose. Better to fully push toward electrification, with technology that is not yet mature, or to go through a gas-powered transition phase? We ...

Going Full Throttle with Biofuels

Along with the construction and manufacturing sectors, transport is still a top priority for decarbonisation strategies. According to the World Resource institute’s data for 2020, cars (including ...

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