sustainable transportation Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:09:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 World’s First Hyperloop to be Built in Spain (not US) https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyperloop-spain-madrid/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyperloop-spain-madrid/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:08:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56724 Elon Musk will shape the future of transportation even if Tesla loses its place as the king of electric cars. One of his best ideas, the Hyperloop, is a capsule that travels at incredibly high speeds through a tube. Reaching 800 mph, or 1,200 km/h, the Hyperloop could take a passenger from Madrid to Barcelona in just thirty minutes. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hyperloop-spain-madrid/feed/ 1 56724 Sustainable Sweden Gets More People to Ride Bikes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sustainable-sweden-gets-people-ride-bikes-20140508/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sustainable-sweden-gets-people-ride-bikes-20140508/#respond Thu, 08 May 2014 19:46:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47419 Depending on where you live, if you think “bike,” you might not think “sustainable transportation.” Like many, you might associate “bike” with “recreation” or even “toy,” which is probably why many people don’t see them as legitimate forms of sustainable transportation. By extension, many people don’t make the leap to seeing sustainable transportation, in the […]

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