Dockless #9 — AV are closer than we think as it is a bike powered by hydrogen.
Bikes | Pragma
As usual, Bikes is the first section of our newsletter because we believe in bikes as the best solution for our cities.
Electric bikes market is evolving fast. We weren’t aware there were a company, Pragma Industries, building an electric bike powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Advantages, versus normal batteries, are range (150 km) and time of “charging” (2 minutes). It looks great!
Autonomous Vehicles (AV) | Comma.ai
Extremely interesting and long interview to founder of Comma.ai, George Hotz, about IA, autonomy, Tesla and many other things. Comma.ai is a machine learning based vehicle automation company which is working in a open-source software suitable for every type or car, instead of working on the whole package “car+autonomy” like Tesla or “autonomy+service” like Waymo. I link the interview to the minute where he start speaking concretely about autonomy but watch it entirely if you can because the insights are very good. He speaks about how “Tesla is going to win Level 5 autonomy”, how “to take over the whole (car insurance) market” but also about singularity or brain-machine linking.
Buses | EU, Solaris
According to this Solaris press release, Europe is going to be full of electric buses sooner than later. Apparently, the European Parliament has goals to accomplish in the number of electric buses driving around European cities.
Germany is building a car-free bicycle highway to connect 10 cities and 4 universities.
Scooters
Interesting, although short, text written by VOI’s CEO, Fredrik Hjelm, on his Linkedin profile. It goes about operational cost on scooter business.
Lime is expanding operations to new 7 german cities. [German]
E-planes
Dreaming about flying in zero-emission planes? Well, they are in their way but we will still have to wait some years. Two links about them: one about the Alpha Electro G2 (the first electric two-seater aircraft approved for commercial production), and other about the company ZeroAvia, which says we will enjoy their hydrogen-powered planes by 2022.
