Important Innovations

  UC Berkeley Students' Solar Car Zephyr                                                                      Source:  UC Berkeley Heading into Road Race Competition at the American Solar Challenge Engineering students at UC Berkeley have built a road-ready, registered solar car called Zephyr.  To say the least, the vehicle is eye-catching.  It closely resembles a flying saucer.  But, it is a fully functional solar/electric powered car. Zephyr has been cleared for driving and has a California license plate.  The UC Berkeley student inventors are putting Zephyr into national competition.  It's heading for the 5 day, 1,000 mile road race between Independence, Missouri and Las Vegas, N.M. called the American Solar Challenge, which is a race among solar c...

  UC Berkeley Students' Solar Car Zephyr                                                                      Source:  UC Berkeley Heading into Road Race Competition at the American Solar Challenge Engineering students at UC Berkeley have built a road-ready, registered solar car called Zephyr.  To say the least, the vehicle is eye-catching.  It closely resembles a flying saucer.  But, it is a fully functional solar/electric powered car. Zephyr has been cleared for driving and has a California license plate.  The UC Berkeley student inventors are putting Zephyr into national competition.  It's heading for the 5 day, 1,000 mile road race between Independence, Missouri and Las Vegas, N.M. called the American Solar Challenge, which is a race among solar c...

  Fully Autonomous, eVTOL Personal Air Mobility                                             Source: NeXT iFLY US Advanced eVTOL Startup NeXT US air mobility startup NeXT has created a highly advanced, one person e-VTOL that vertically takes off and lands like a helicopter.  No airport runway or infrastructure is needed.  The vehicle is called iFLY.  The company says it is planet friendly as it is fully electric with zero emissions.  It is also fully autonomous with no pilot needed.  It is designed to be a very affordable means of personal air mobility. Unique Flying Technology The vehicle operates with a mobile app that works on both android and iOS.  The rider needs to select a destination landing spot provided on a touchscreen, which in turn provides iFLY instructions to reach the desired destination.  The EV operates...

  Fully Autonomous, eVTOL Personal Air Mobility                                             Source: NeXT iFLY US Advanced eVTOL Startup NeXT US air mobility startup NeXT has created a highly advanced, one person e-VTOL that vertically takes off and lands like a helicopter.  No airport runway or infrastructure is needed.  The vehicle is called iFLY.  The company says it is planet friendly as it is fully electric with zero emissions.  It is also fully autonomous with no pilot needed.  It is designed to be a very affordable means of personal air mobility. Unique Flying Technology The vehicle operates with a mobile app that works on both android and iOS.  The rider needs to select a destination landing spot provided on a touchscreen, which in turn provides iFLY instructions to reach the desired destination.  The EV operates...

  Triphibian Electric Vehicle from China                                       Source:  Super Soco's Soco Xray Unique Form of Travel A unique form of travel, a triphibian electric vehicle, that can travel in the air, on land and on water, has just been unveiled at the annual Taobao Maker Festival 2021 in China.  The highly innovative vehicle is called Soco Xray and it appears to be a first.  It can even travel through ice and snow.  It is in the prototype stage and is under development. Super Soco The vehicle is the creation of Super Soco, a Nanjing, China based, electric scooter company.  Very few details about the technologies built into the vehicle have been disclosed.  Super Soco is a global player in the electric scooter business.  It sells them in over 73 nations through e-commerce platforms like Alibaba and in more than 2,000 r...

  Triphibian Electric Vehicle from China                                       Source:  Super Soco's Soco Xray Unique Form of Travel A unique form of travel, a triphibian electric vehicle, that can travel in the air, on land and on water, has just been unveiled at the annual Taobao Maker Festival 2021 in China.  The highly innovative vehicle is called Soco Xray and it appears to be a first.  It can even travel through ice and snow.  It is in the prototype stage and is under development. Super Soco The vehicle is the creation of Super Soco, a Nanjing, China based, electric scooter company.  Very few details about the technologies built into the vehicle have been disclosed.  Super Soco is a global player in the electric scooter business.  It sells them in over 73 nations through e-commerce platforms like Alibaba and in more than 2,000 r...

  Xpeng's Voyager X2 - Next-G 5 & Voyager X1 - Next-G 4                                    Source:  Xpeng Huitian Voyager X2 Travelling by Electric Drone China's Xpeng Motors, an electric vehicle company, is developing a new, Next-G 5, electric, autonomous flying car prototype, the Voyager X2.  The innovation is coming from Xpeng's autonomous aviation unit Xpeng Huitian.  The EV has 8 propellers across 4 axes, offering multi motor backup.  It is also equipped with 8 independent battery groups offering a redundant power supply system for safety, should power cells malfunction.  This flying car has already completed its first crewed flight.  It is now under development along with its predecessor flying car Voyager X1, which is Xpeng's Next-G 4 prototype.  X1 was introduced earlier 2021.  X2 was just unveiled. Capabilities Voyager X2 is a...