FutureCityLab (ftr.ct.lb)

Future City Lab (ftr.ct.lb) is an open-source initiative for designing our future urban environments. ftr.ct.lb is generating with the means of crowd sourcing a positive utopia for 2050.

ftr.ct.lb is a collaboration of leading engineers, universities and scientists worldwide in or- der to elaborate a (positive) urban vision for the next generations.
This vision should help to establish the planning directions that we need to take today.

See more visions and join the discussion here ftrctlb.com

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100 Years of Electric Car History

Coming Full Circle

“This timeline of the 100-year plus history of the electric car shows how despite a promising beginning, the EV technology simply couldn’t compete with the internal combustion engine for most of the 20th century. But that’s starting to change, as each new generation of electric car has a longer driving range, a faster-charging battery, and a lower cost. This trajectory will at some point cross the rising cost of gasoline thanks to peak oil and global warming problems, and make EVs the obvious choice for the cars that will be left on the road.

Of course, the smart thing to do is not to wait for environmental problems to become worse before transitioning to cleaner ways of getting around: We need to walk, bike, take transit, and use plug-in cars now to get off fossil fuels, not at some distant point in the future. The faster we stop pumping so much CO2 in our planet’s atmosphere, the better off we and our kids will be in the long-term.”

via treehugger / NPR

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/100-years-electric-car-history.html