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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. The US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently pledged that America will achieve carbon neutrality for its aviation sector by 2050.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. This technology can be fitted into regular production trucks and is a huge step towards fully autonomous transportation. Reader Alain writes. "

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Trends Shaping the Automotive Industry in 2022

Epicflow

Electric Vehicles Production and Sales Will Grow. Also, the technologies are expected to be used in transportation network applications and in autonomous vehicles. [4] What else should we expect in 2022? Find it out from our review of the most prominent autotrends. Automotive Business Trends.

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Fourth Industrial Revolution: Robots, Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy 5.1 Million Jobs by 2020

MishTalk

I expect millions of truck hauling and taxi jobs will vanish soon, in the USA alone, by 2025. Moreover, it is now possible to create cars, trucks, aircraft, and boats that are completely or partly autonomous, which could revolutionize transportation, if regulations allow, as early as 2020. The report is a 167 page PDF slog.

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Your Business Is Going to Depend on Connected Spenders, So You’d Better Understand Who They Are

Harvard Business

Today connected spenders count for about 19% of the global population, and that is projected to grow to 37% by 2025. where internet access is just shy of 90%, only 36% of the population are currently connected spenders, a number that will grow to over 50% by 2025. They prefer cutting-edge products and state-of-the-art technologies.

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6 Ways the North American Clean Economy Agreement Will Affect Business

Harvard Business

The biggest commitments are: Generating 50% clean power by 2025. Reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40% to 45% by 2025. Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies by 2025, and calling on G-20 to do the same. If only solar, we would need to average eight times the amount built in 2015, every year, through 2025.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Uber Also based in San Francisco and launched more recently in 2010, Uber uses a smartphone app to receive requests of people needing transportation, and then sends out these requests to their drivers who transport the customers to their final destinations. billion since its launch.

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