EV Car Sharing On Ambitious Scale In Paris
What looks to be one of the most ambitious – and only – electric car sharing services in the world kicked off over the weekend in Paris, France. The Autolib project, as it is being called, aims to make...
View ArticleLeaf For Hire Brings EV Option To London, Paris
Driving in Europe can be awesome—full speed on the German autobahn, zipping through Spain’s Costa Brava, crossing the Alps over San Bernardino Pass and into Via Mala, circling Scotland’s Isle of Aran....
View ArticleFire Fighting Electric Vehicle Style Comes To Paris
Could electric vehicles be modified to meet the needs of fire fighters? While it is hard to envision this in the big trucks we see rushing down streets, ladders attached and sirens blaring, there may...
View ArticleAt Paris Marathon, Watts Of Energy Expended, Some Captured
Some 40,000 people pounded the pavement – and Pavegen Systems’ energy harvesting panels – on Sunday at the Paris Marathon. Working with race sponsor Schneider Electric, London-based Pavegen installed...
View ArticleEuropaCity Design Puts It All Under One Roof
In an ambitious project that looks like a cross between a green Millennium Falcon and a villain’s lair from a James Bond movie, France’s EuropaCity is nothing less than a self-contained underground...
View ArticleUpdated Apartment Block From ‘60s Wins Prize
Is there any form of architecture more universally reviled than the residential urban renewal “projects” of the 1950s and ‘60s? Once thought to be a modern cure for the scourges of city slums, these...
View ArticleMassive Vertical Garden Sets The Stage For Paris Design Week
Not to be outdone but the recent unveiling of London’s newest green wall, Paris recently became home to it’s own impressive living edifice. Named the Oasis of Aboukir, the living work of art is an...
View ArticleRaising Paris Ghost Stations From The Dead
Paris, borrowing a page from New York’s Lowline project that’s trying to get off the ground – oops, under the ground – is pondering subterranean possibilities. And people are talking about it. This is...
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