Dear reader, dear reader,
This year’s Tour de France heads for the end of their first week, this Thursday there are more than 200 kilometers in hilly Normandy for the participants. In the “Manage: Mobility” newsletter, we deal with significantly heavier vehicles than the less than seven kilogram racing bikes of the tour participants: For example, cargo bikes can weigh the 60 kilograms, covered motorcycles almost 200 kilograms and container ships.
A vehicle, as large as a Vespa, but as safe as a car, wants to develop the former BMW board member Wolfgang Ziebart (75) and thus drastically reduce the number of severe two-wheel accidents. For this goal, he drummed up a group of old acquaintances and, as he says, founded “oldest start-up in Germany”. How Xyte Mobility wants to launch a successful product despite the careful investors and a flopped model from BMW, My colleague Christoph Seyerlein looked atÂ
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Deepdrive: Fewer flights, more passengers
The summer holidays are just around the corner, and one or the other flight to the south is certainly already booked. The tickets for this were probably more expensive than last year: A study by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) foundthat even with the so -called low -cost aircraft the prices have put on a lot. The reason for this is the scarce flight offer and the increased number of passengers. The number of flights worldwide decreased by 5 percent in 2024 to 36.3 million, while the number of flight passengers was 4.7 billion 2 percent higher than in the pre-corona year 2019.