Transport Archives - Positive News Good journalism about good things Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:33:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.positive.news/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-P.N_Icon_Navy-32x32.png Transport Archives - Positive News 32 32 ‘Getting a bike was a resurrection’: the project donating bicycles to refugees https://www.positive.news/society/getting-a-bike-was-a-resurrection-the-project-donating-bicycles-to-refugees/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:31:57 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=463664 Transport poverty is a growing concern for people seeking asylum in the UK. The Bike Project provides a solution

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]]> The dawn of the 1,000km battery https://www.positive.news/environment/battery-breakthrough-long-range-electric-cars-and-planes/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:30:57 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=438878 China's 'condensed' battery breakthrough could power long-range electric cars and planes, and will be in mass production later this year

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]]> Airships are back to clean up aviation. Will they take off? https://www.positive.news/environment/airships-are-back-promising-to-clean-up-aviation/ Wed, 24 May 2023 13:33:32 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=434779 The low-carbon future of aviation could be powered by a relic from its past. The blimps are back. Who’s on board?

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]]> The pedal-powered revolution that’s coming to a town near you https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/the-bike-bus-movement-thats-coming-to-a-town-near-you/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:21:13 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=431414 It all started in a small town in Catalonia. Now a citizen-led initiative to get kids to school safely by bicycle is going global

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]]> Women made: Africa’s electric motorbike revolution https://www.positive.news/environment/women-made-africas-electric-motorbike-revolution/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:11:07 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=423484 Smut-belching motorbikes are a big driver of pollution in Africa. The race to get them off the road just stepped up a gear

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]]> Green travel: the low-cost rail firms taking on Europe’s airlines https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/travel/meet-the-low-cost-railways-taking-on-europes-airlines/ Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:42:35 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=408359 Across the continent, low-cost rail firms are launching new routes to tempt passengers out of the skies. Are they winning?

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]]> Electric ‘flying’ ferries are about to take off in Stockholm https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/travel/electric-flying-ferries-are-about-to-take-off-in-stockholm/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 10:40:54 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=406032 The Swedish capital’s dirty diesel ferries will soon be superseded by a greener, sleeker fleet that runs on electricity

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]]> The travel editor who quit flying (and what it’s taught her so far) https://www.positive.news/society/the-travel-editor-who-quit-flying-and-what-its-taught-her-so-far/ Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:23:03 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=400906 When travel journalist Helen Coffey quit flying, her colleagues were stunned. But she soon wondered why she hadn’t done it before

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]]> EV batteries are an environmental headache. This startup has a solution https://www.positive.news/environment/ev-batteries-are-an-environmental-headache-this-startup-has-a-solution/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:15:32 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=394053 A German firm is turning old EV batteries into storage for green energy. Its aim? To make coal power redundant

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]]> Cargo bikes are rebooting urban travel – and coming to a city near you https://www.positive.news/opinion/how-cargo-bikes-are-transforming-cities/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:15:22 +0000 https://www.positive.news/?p=372802 Switched on cities are cottoning on to the benefits of cargo bikes, which are quietly reinventing urban travel

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