Transportation

The secret is to use DC quick-charging stations, which can recharge an electric car’sbattery pack to about 80 percent of capacity in half an hour or less.

Germany-based COBI has produced a single system that integrates 100 smart features into any bike without weighing it down with multiple gadgets.

Shift are making urban transit straightforward, using an algorithm which knows the best vehicle for the user’s journey.

Driving this car is mundane, almost boring. My interaction with that little girl was the most exciting part of the trip. And Audi couldn’t be happier about that.

The tech in the F015 looks somewhat sci-fi, but given that today’s Mercedes can manage parking and freeway driving without human input, 2030 doesn’t look so far away.

Toyota says rivals won’t have to pay royalties if they want to use any of its 5,680 patents globally that relate to fuel-cell stacks, high-pressure hydrogen tanks, fuel system software and hydrogen production and supply.

Stay tuned; it promises to be a very interesting few years for the German makers.

Germany currently offers few incentives for electric cars, but the government hopes to change that policy – including the construction of a large network of electric car charging stations.

Is there really nothing I can do to protect the value of my points?

"With a four-lane highway, you have 16 tons of salt per year in that one mile segment," he said. "In 50 years, that’s about 800 tons of salt in that one mile – and 99% of it stays in the environment. It doesn’t degrade."