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In diesem Hörbuch möchte ich dir, lieber Leser, aufzeigen, wie wir als 4-Köpfige Familie, welche bis zu dem Tag X als totale "Petrolheads" unterwegs waren, den Umstieg in einen heute rein elektrisch motorisierten Haushalt geschafft haben. Wobei... Geschafft ist nicht unbedingt das passende Wort. Es war ja eine durchaus freiwillige Aufgabe, welche wir uns selbst nach und nach auferlegt haben.

Verspätungen, Zugausfälle, geänderte Wagenreihung, fehlende Sitzplatzreservierungen und ewige Baustellen - kein Unternehmen erregt den Unmut seiner Kunden so sehr wie die Deutsche Bahn. Survival Training inklusive. Fast jeder Zugreisende kann solche Geschichten erzählen. FAZ-Redakteurin Maria Wiesner hat die irrsten Erlebnisse Bahnreisender gesammelt: von achtstündigen Verspätungen, saunaähnlichen Großraumwaggons, schnarchend-schmatzenden Sitznachbarn bis hin zu Pendlern am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs.

Il volo ha sempre affascinato l'essere umano e la possibilità di potersi librare nel cielo ha alimentato la fantasia di poeti, scrittori, mercanti, inventori e scienziati dall'alba della civiltà. Quando il 17 dicembre 1903 i fratelli Wright riuscirono a mantenere in volo per 12 secondi l'aeromobile da loro progettato, molti aspetti della vita dell'uomo vennero rivoluzionati per sempre. Il sogno dei condottieri di ogni tempo di materializzarsi con i propri eserciti sull'avversario si stava improvvisamente realizzando: stavano nascendo le operazioni militari nella terza dimensione.

In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young boys, was the boat’s owner and leader of the four-man crew, which included two locals and the blue-blooded son of a well-to-do summer family. After a week at sea, the weather suddenly turned, and the foursome collided with a nor’easter. They soon found themselves in the fight of their lives. Tragically, it was a fight they lost. Neither the boat nor the bodies of the men were ever recovered.

It is difficult to imagine now, but for all its gorgeous scenery, the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century. While the West was advertised as a paradise on earth to citizens in the East and Midwest, many believed the journey too hazardous to be worthwhile — until 1869, when the first transcontinental railroad changed the face of transportation.

The self-driving car has been one of the most vaunted technological breakthroughs of recent years. But early promises that these autonomous vehicles would soon be on the roads have proven premature. Alex Davies follows the twists and turns of the story from its origins to today.

Starting out as a talented youth riding the desert tracks of California, his reckless nature and incredible talent earned him a position in the rarefied world of professional motorcycle racing. Despite the success in his professional life, his personal life was crumbling around him - John was battling with depression and temptation, which began to threaten his career, health and marriage, ultimately bringing him to a life of alcoholism, addiction and even smuggling.

Flying cars - the best or worst idea ever? In the ever-changing world of technology and transportation, flying and autonomous cars might not be just a part of futuristic sci-fi movies anymore...they may become available in your lifetime. Listen in as Seeker discusses the future of transportation, the evolution of fuel alternatives, and how close humans are to a self-driving world in this best of collection, available for the first time in audio.

In "Pass Your Commercial Pilot Checkride," the MzeroA team leverages their extensive flight experience and knowledge to guide pilots through one of the most crucial steps in their aviation journey the checkride. This book aims to demystify the process, offering strategies and insights that will save you time and reduce stress, ensuring you're fully prepared for the big day.

It is autumn 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans in the war for the North Atlantic. Their targets now travel in convoys, fiercely guarded by Royal Navy destroyers, and when contact is finally made the hunters rapidly become the hunted.

When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophic crash later, his space tourism dream may finally be on the verge of becoming a reality. New Yorker journalist Nicholas Schmidle knows that story intimately. He spent nearly four years embedded with Virgin Galactic at its California hangar, meeting the individuals working to make commercial space travel possible.

In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer combines a movie-worthy tale of survival with a sweeping history of the period - a time of hope, adventure and seemingly unlimited scientific and geographic frontiers. At the story’s centre is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators, whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to find a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both catastrophe and glory.

Required to have a college education, speak two languages and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between five foot three and five foot nine, between 105 and 140 pounds and under 26 years of age at the time of hire. Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters.

Flying a multi-million pound fighter jet in hostile territory is not an everyday career, and it comes with a high degree of pressure and responsibility. It’s a dream job that takes years of ambition, training and commitment, but for Mandy Hickson, it was a dream that became reality. Find out about Mandy’s incredible journey to become one of the UK’s first female, fast-jet pilots and how she overcame many obstacles to develop the skills to succeed in such a demanding career.

Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some, he's a genius and a visionary, and to others, he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets, and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car.

In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses - the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.

Tesla is the envy of the automotive world. Born at the start of the millennium, it was the first car company to be valued at $1 trillion. Its CEO, the mercurial, charismatic Elon Musk has become not just a celebrity but the richest man in the world. But Tesla’s success was far from guaranteed. Founded in the 2000s, the company was built on an audacious vision. Musk and a small band of Silicon Valley engineers set out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, and cleaner than any gas-guzzler on the road.

In examining the history of the 737, a highly regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced software work to poorly paid graduates in India and convinced the US Federal Aviation Authority to put the MAX into service without requiring pilots to undergo simulator training.

Tip the Empire State Building onto its side and you’ll have a sense of the length of the United States Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the most powerful in the world: the USS John F. Kennedy. Weighing 100,000 tons, Kennedy features the most futuristic technology ever put to sea, making it the most agile and lethal global weapon of war.

In this astonishing rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of Chesapeake Requiem reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions - distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle - deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of human adventure and exploration.