Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. You might have noticed that we have some pretty bad ass header images on our articles at TNW. Takethis one. The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art....
3 easy-to-read academic articles for mobility tech nerds Interested in ebikes, hyperloop, and self-driving cars? Get in here! 1. How ebikes affect bicycle use First up is the article:Effects of e-bikes on bicycle use and mode share, by Aslak Fyhri and Nils Fearnley. Published in the journal Transportation Research, this article takes a look at the impact ebikes have on changing how we get around. As ebikes began to gain popularity, some believed that they were just going to electrify cycling and there wouldn’t be a positive environmental benefit....
3 efficient tips startups should steal from old-school corporates to grow Write stuff down — trust me. 1. Information must flow out of the heads and straight into the text Sounds poetic, but this one is actually quite straightforward. In the beginning, startups typically have from one to 10 people in the team. Often, the culture reminds you more of a family, with its unwritten rules, inside jokes, and common understanding of how things are done....
3 EV economy metrics you need to know Get your head around these to know how much electric ‘gas’ your’e using kWh/100km First off, let’s start with what kWh/100km. This stands for kilowatt-hours per 100 kilometers. Put simply, this is a measure of how much battery power is used to drive 100km. It’s not a retrospective number though, EVs will display this figure on the dashboard as an indicator of real-time efficiency....
Ships carrymore than 80%of world trade, and they rely heavily on some of theleast environmentally friendlytransportation fuels available. There are no cheap, widely available solutions that can lower the shipping industry’s planet-warming carbon emissions – in fact,shipping is considered one of the hardest industries on the planet to decarbonize – but some exciting innovations are being tested right now. As aprofessor of naval architecture and marine engineering, I work on ship propulsion and control systems, including electrification, batteries and fuel cells....
