657 articles on Cars

  • Ford Aims to Make Your Ride Plug-and-Play
    Ford announced its latest effort in the evolution of the connected car with the unveiling of OpenXC, a research platform which aims to turn your car into a plug-and-play device.
    09.14.11
  • Gordon Murray Frames a New Future for Automaking
    The man who pioneered the use of composites in Formula 1 and brought us the incomparable McLaren F1 supercar has a radical new way of building cars, one the auto industry is eager to learn more about.
    09.13.11
  • Electric Racer Is One Extreme Proof Of Concept
    An electric car billed as the most powerful on earth is about to make its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show. It's here to prove not only that the technology under the hood is possible, but that it can be absolutely exhilarating. The Quimera All Electric GT (AEGT) supercar has three (!) electric motors putting out ...
    09.12.11
  • Cars Don't Waste Fuel. Drivers Waste Fuel
    Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) are developing a new way of boosting fuel efficiency by as much as 30 percent without changing a car's powertrain at all. Their secret? Finding ways to change our behavior so we're more attuned to maximizing their mileage while behind the ...
    09.12.11
  • California Sheriff Adds Light Sport Airplane To Fleet
    Light sport aircraft are marketed to pilots (and prospective pilots) as a safe, economical and a relatively simple way to fly. Now it turns out the same pitch is working for law enforcement. The Tulare County Sheriff's Department is the first agency in the country to put a light sport aircraft to work as an ...
    09.08.11
  • BMW Toying With Laser Headlamps
    Wonderful. Technology has added yet another way for BMW drivers to show complete disregard for other road users -- laser headlights. Projected use: Zapping cyclists. LEDs are obviously over already, and BMW plans to further enable its over-entitled, road-owning customers in their war on civility. The lights burn so much brighter than LEDs (170 lumens per ...
    09.08.11
  • Electric Vehicles: Breaking Track Records For 115 Years
    On this date in 1896, an electric car won one of the first automobile races in the United States. Amidst jeers from the crowd to "get a horse!" the ur-EV built by the Riker Electric Motor Company slowly completed five laps around a horse racing track in Cranston, RI. It took 15 minutes for the ...
    09.07.11
  • New Composite Airbus Approaching Final Assembly
    Several large composite pieces for the new Airbus passenger jet have been delivered over the past month as the airplane maker prepares for assembly of the first A350XWB. The new airplane is expected to make its first flight some time next year and is a competitor against Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. Both the A350XWB and 787 ...
    09.06.11
  • A Trippy Citroën Concept? Quelle Surprise!
    Just as Amélie traipsed around like a Parisian Polyanna, we can always count on Citroën's Gallic whimsy to liven up an auto show. The Tubik, a luxurious reinterpretation of the fabled H Van, does not disappoint. Citroën envisions the Tubik as the group transit component of its Multicity platform, a connected transit service that integrates all modes ...
    09.06.11
  • Extra! Read All About It! Newspapers Could Power Cars!
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK Newspapers could be used to power cars, a team of molecular biologists from Tulane University in New Orleans claim. The team from the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology has discovered a new strain of the bacteria Clostridium, TU-103, that can produce a biofuel when breaking down newspaper. The biologists state: "TU-103 is ...
    09.01.11
  • Laser–Machine Gun Mashup Tested on 'Pirate Ships'
    Defense giants Boeing and BAE are collaborating on a truly baroque superweapon: a mashup of a laser and a machine gun. And a recent test of the laser-enhanced Mk-38 tells us what its main mission will be: protecting Navy ships from pirate assaults. That's right: Lasers. Versus. Pirates.
    09.01.11
  • Wanna Save Defense Cash? Then Stop No-Bid Contracts
    The military is facing a massive budget crunch, and has been trying to cut as much fiscal fat as it can before the White House's green eyeshades force austerity on the brass. Or so the Pentagon says. In truth, it's not taking any steps to stop no-bid contracting, a proven source of budget waste. To learn how it can, study one of the military's biggest contracting fiascos -- which actually turned out well for taxpayers.
    09.01.11
  • Boeing Opts To Upgrade 737
    Boeing will not build an all new replacement for the world's most popular airliner. Instead, the plane maker has decided to upgrade the ubiquitous 737 with new engines and a few other items to increase efficiency and extend the life of the 40-plus year old design. The decision to 're-engine' the 737 instead of coming up ...
    08.31.11
  • For Sale: Batmobile. Low Miles, Runs Great
    The Batmobile is for sale. Not the Batmobile, but a faithful reproduction built by racer and builder Casey Putsch. He's listed it on eBay and through his website. Putsch's Batmobile, inspired by the vehicle from the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman, runs on a military surplus helicopter engine that produces 365 horsepower. The engine takes on jet ...
    08.30.11
  • Sebastian Vettel Crosses Over
    Somehow, the last thing we expected to see Formula 1 champ Sebastian Vettel endorsing is a crossover utility vehicle. But that's exactly what Infiniti will roll out next month at the Frankfurt auto show when Vettel unveils the FX50 concept car he helped design. The 390-horsepower CUV is slathered in matte white paint. Other tidbits include ...
    08.29.11
  • 8 Useful Pieces of (Slightly) Geeky Advice About Hurricane Irene
    If you live in the United States, you're probably aware that at this very moment Hurricane Irene is barreling towards the northern two-thirds of the East Coast. If, like me, you live in or near the hurricane's projected path, you're probably (very reasonably) worried about what might happen and preparing as best you can for ...
    08.26.11
  • KillaCycle Aims For the Record Book
    By Wes Siler, Hell for Leather The guy behind one of the fastest EVs around is joining the TTXGP electric motorcycle grand prix in a bid to claim the outright motorcycle land speed record. Not the land speed record for electric motorcycles, which stands at 216 mph. The land speed record for motorcycles, period. That means topping ...
    08.24.11


 

 

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