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Like a duck to water. well, after a few big unplanned splashes. ok, that feels faster than you went. ok, now pull it down a bit. 0k, pull it down a bit. i'm heading for the big waves. whoa — whoa! that was amazing! good work! i barely felt those. a very different experience to our producer's boat. thank you for the warning! it's a leader amongst its electric peers, but i do wonder if prices — starting from around $300,000 — might stall adoption, especially when similar—sized motorboats can still travel several times further and go around ten knots faster. of course, there's going to be

In an unassuming garage in the netherlands, there's an electric car with a secret. no, it's not its ultra—light, ultra—strong carbon—fibre frame, although that is important to the story, and it's not the aerodynamic design that makes it look like a future car from the 1950s, although that is important too. no. look closer at that shiny finish, and you'll see that it's not paint. the entire thing is covered in solar panels — solar panels on the bonnet, solar panels on the roof, solar panels instead of a back window. yes, this is a solar—powered car, and they call it lightyear one. the...

This is greenwich naval college in london. with its brand—new cycle way, play area, benches and bike park. it's an urban regeneration that didn't need council approval — in fact, it was only completed about ten minutes ago. yeah, it's a visualisation of how things could be, the kind of thing you see skilled urban designers make, although this is betastreets, a tool that can be used by anyone. quite often the visualisation can be done at the end of hundreds of thousands of pounds of design work and then the decision—makers decide they don't like it, and therein lies a problem because a lo...

They don't like it, and therein lies a problem because a lot of money and time has been spent getting there. we kept betastreets as a simple tool for most people and not something you need to work in design for two years to be able to do. the idea is anyone can take a photo of their local area, upload it to betastreets and the software will do the work for you. this tool analyses the photo to work out the geometry of the image and that makes adding street furniture, cycle lanes and trees a doddle. is that a sensible place to put a bike hangar? laughter. that's a no, then. this is chaos. you do...

Motor boats use fuel that create greenhouse gases. they can leak petrol and they can cause noise pollution. so, i'm here to take a look at some electric boats that aim to overcome these problems, including one that doesn't cut through the waves, but glides above them. right, i'm following you. yes, come. under this 25—foot craft is a wing for hydroplaning and sensors that collect hundreds of data points every second. you'll have to take the passenger seat first. 0k. and then we'll let you drive. we need to stabilise it, much like a fighterjet. then we feel how we're oriented, where we are in...