Have we reached the era of flying cars?
Nick Kwek looks at how close we are to personal aviation vehicles and the challenges they face.
More than 2,000 old and iconic mobile phones are being showcased in a new online museum. The Mobile Phone Museum was set up by industry analyst Ben Wood who had collected thousands of phones as a hobby. BBC Click’s Chris Fox went to the launch event in London and went hands-on with some of the…
Electric vehicle start-up, Arrival says it has sold more than 50,000 vans and buses even before one has hit the road. Arrival, founded in 2015, has designed a new style of electric vans and buses which will start being delivered to customers in 2022. Other manufacturers also offer all-electric versions typically of their most popular…
Norway took the decision to pause using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as precautionary measure, Sara Watle, senior physician at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said. She told BBC World News: “The four cases were clusters so they were reported to us in a very short period of time and the four cases have all occurred…
Greece is hoping European countries will adopt a Covid-19 vaccine certificate system to make tourism easier during the summer. A digital vaccination certificate would make travel smoother, Akis Skertsos, deputy minister to Greece’s prime minister explained. He told BBC World News: “We don’t think that this is discriminatory at all. Restrictions are already in place…
Diplomacy and co-operation between the UK and EU could help ensure easier travel, Portuguese MEP Claudia Monteiro de Aguiar has said. Her comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said all member states should quarantine arrivals from the UK considering the dangers of the spread of Delta variant. But the MEP told BBC World News:…
Ros Atkins looks at how Europe is getting to grips with its emissions problem. More on the climate summit The COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow in November is seen as crucial if climate change is to be brought under control. Almost 200 countries are being asked for their plans to cut emissions, and it…