Scooters are dangerous. The small front wheel in more prone sudden twisting when one hits a bump or object in the road. But it is hard to resist riding a Fremont Motors all electric scooter "Fido." At speeds of up to 45 miles per hour, this sco...
www.youtube.com/watchwww.youtube.com/watch A driverless "POD" is whisking students to the other side of the campus at Masdar City (near Abu Dhabi). These EV vehicles go 25Mph and can reach a range of about 37miles on a single charge. So, chargin...
www.youtube.com/watch When I first watched this video I had one question, what if the driver spaces out for a little bit? Although my question was not answered, I did see an impressive video of the brain controlled car in operation. The "MadeInG...
Per Tunestal, Combustion Engines at Lund University in Sweden researcher, is working on air hybrids cars that he claims are cheaper to manufacture. He states, “The technology is fully realistic. I was recently contacted by a vehicle manufacturer in I...
Networking vehicles with one another and with the infrastructure gives the driver information on the situation beyond his or her field of vision and warns the driver about accidents or traffic jams. Researchers from Fraunhofer will be unveiling...
The twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have outlasted their planned three-month lifetime and given us our closest look yet at the Martian surface. But the solar-powered rovers have covered only 21 miles of Martian terrain in their combined...
Could ‘talking cars’ save lives? Auto companies are developing safety systems using advanced Wi-Fi signals and GPS systems that could allow vehicles to communicate with each other on the road. The cars could then send messages to warn their dri...
RAF fighter pilot Andy Green intends to get behind the wheel of a new concept car that will push him forward at an astounding 1000mph. The car, called ‘Bloodhound’, is powered by a rocket bolted onto a Eurofighter-Typhoon jet engine which should prov...
There it was, 7,000 feet up in the sky, snapping photographs of the Iraqi landscape when it looked like it should have been slaking the illicit thirst of underage soldiers. But now the Army reports that the program that gave us a drone known as...
I know what you’re thinking, “nice photoshopped picture”, but it’s actually not. Thanks to the Indian railways, an old unused engine, which would have been shown the doors to the scrapyard, has got a fresh lease of life – it’s been transformed ...
Admit it, at some point in your childhood this is how you thought you were going to commute to work. Well if you have roughly $230,000 you might just be able to that. Raymond Li, a Chinese Canadian living in St. John's, Newfoundland, developed ...
Uh-oh, a new challenger to our boys at Cambridge. With a blistering speed of almost 56 mph Sunswift Ivy, a solar-powered car made by students at the University of New South Wales, has become a Guinness world record holder. The speed was significantly...
I just finished reading an article about the new Nissan leaf, which Nissan tout as the “first real world Electric Car”, but have we been here before I wonder, and is an electric car a truly viable alternative to the internal combustion engine (...
