It’s no HyperLoop TT, but Brightline West is now America’s first high-speed rail project. Connecting Las Vegas and Southern California, this 218-mile passenger rail service will reach speeds of up to 200 mph with no grade crossings and within the median of the I-15 highway.
Long before bullet trains, there was the self-balancing gyro monorail from the early 1900s. Its inventor, Louis Brennan, filed his first monorail patent in 1903, and the initial prototype was just a 30.0″ by 11.8″ box containing the balancing system.
There’s the Living Vehicle HD24, and then the new BeTriton Trailer, which combines an electric boat as well as a camper into a towable mini home of sorts. At 14.8-feet long, its steel / aluminum frame and carbon fiber / glass body means that it weighs in at 309 pounds without its marine drive batteries.
John Vo, former Global Head of Manufacturing at Tesla, launched the R30 Revolution electric boat in St. Petersburg, Florida this past weekend. It features dual inboard motors generating 800 hp, connected to a 221-kWh battery, that enables the vessel to hit a top speed of 45 mph.
It’s no walking motorbike like the Suzuki MOQBA, but Penn-E-Farthing just might be the strangest-looking electric bike yet. Chris Makes Stuff basically transformed a children’s electric motorbike toy into a high wheeler with a large front wheel.
The all-electric Moog x NASA air taxi successfully completed phase 2 of its acoustic hover test this past summer at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport in Ohio. NASA’s team collected data from the eVTOL during departure, landing, and while it hovered at 60 feet, while a Moog operator remotely piloted the aircraft from a nearby ground station.
Joby Aviation’s electric air taxi successfully performed an exhibition flight around New York City yesterday, marking the first time ever that it has flown in an urban setting. This eVTOL was engineered to have a dramatically lower acoustic footprint than today’s helicopters, allowing it to operate in densely populated areas.
Princeton University’s Big Bird electric boat hit an average speed of 114.20mph during its latest attempt, become the world’s fastest. The boat was originally designed to house a 700cc or 1100cc outboard motor, but instead comes equipped with a three-phase AC permanent magnet motor, powered by a 400-volt battery pack.