Autonomous Charging Robots For Electric Cars: The Search For Charging Stations Should Come To An End

While the owners of plug-in electric cars often save charging and mostly use the combustion engine, the owners of pure electric vehicles are dependent on public charging stations, unless it works in the garage at home. But there is almost never a power connection on the often fully parked streets in the cities. That can be changed, thought researchers at the Graz University of Technology in Austria and developed a mobile robot. It recognizes vehicles that have a charge subscription and automatically rolls to the power-hungry vehicle. Once there, the robot arm connects the charging cable to the socket. It

Air-Car Flugauto Successfully Completes Its First Domestic Flight

It only takes two minutes and 15 seconds. Within this period of time, an airplane becomes a normal car at the push of a button. The trick also works the other way round: Then the Air-Car becomes a flying object again within a very short time. The inventor Stefan Klein has been working on this vision for around thirty years. During this time, he not only invested a million euros, but also developed three prototypes. The latest variant has now been subjected to a thoroughly realistic test. So Klein got behind