657 articles on Cars

  • Airline Expects Boeing 787 Passenger Flights Soon
    After more than three years of delays the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is expected to enter service later this summer. At the Paris Air Show today, launch customer All Nippon Airways announced they will be taking delivery of the composite airliner in August or September. The airline has 55 of the efficient new airliners on order ...
    06.22.11
  • Swappable Batteries Make Oz a Better Place
    Swappable batteries arrive in Australia next year in a slick electric sedan built by Renault. The French automaker will introduce the Renault Fluence Z.E. to Canberra, where Silicon Valley startup Better Place is rolling out the battery swap stations and public charging infrastructure needed to keep the cars going. It's another big step forward for the ...
    06.21.11
  • Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and Nabro eruptions from space
    I'm back! It was a great week off down in Charleston, but it is now time to get back to work. Rather than try to catch up on all the goings on over the past week - and it seems like there was quite a bit - I will instead just highlight some items I ...
    06.21.11
  • Hypersonic Dreams Fly at Paris Airshow
    It's been a while since an airplane maker has rekindled the age-old dream of New York to Tokyo flights in a few hours. But taking advantage of having the aerospace world currently camped out on its home turf, EADS, the parent company of Airbus, used the Paris airshow as the venue announce an idea it's ...
    06.20.11
  • Virginia Tech Victorious In EcoCAR Challenge
    After three years of competition, collaboration and electrification, the EcoCAR Challenge is over, and the student-engineers at Virginia Tech have come out on top with an extended-range EV powered by E85 fuel. By modifying an existing GM vehicle to maximize fuel economy yet still appeal to consumers, Virginia Tech's team met incremental goals and challenges throughout ...
    06.20.11
  • Building Historic Burt Rutan Designs Brick By Lego Brick
    If you've always wanted to build a Burt Rutan designed aircraft, it's about to get a lot easier. From the VariViggen to SpaceShipTwo, most of the most important designs to fly over Mojave during the past 35+ years will soon be available for just about anybody to build with Legos. The project began two years ago ...
    06.20.11
  • Trans-Atlantic Biofuel Flights Kick Off Paris Air Show
    Most of the big news at the Paris Air Show usually is about what's being unveiled at the industry's big event that begins next week. But this year both Boeing and Honeywell are getting a leg up on the flurry of news by talking up how they are getting to Le Bourget Field. Later Friday, Honeywell ...
    06.17.11
  • The Most Important Lamborghini That Never Was
    By Peter Orosz, Jalopnik This is the Marzal, the most important Lamborghini that never was. This car, the love child of 50 square feet of glass and half a Lamborghini Miura engine, was the epitome of Lamborghini¿s pre-supercar design philosophy. It was one of a kind, built in 1967, and it recently sold for $2.1 ...
    06.17.11
  • Flying a Century-Old Design for the First Time
    In 1909, a young French aviator completed one of the most daring flights that had ever been attempted. In an airplane of his own design, powered by a 28-horsepower engine, Louis Bleriot became the first pilot to cross a major body of water when he flew across the English Channel. A new Bleriot XI recently took ...
    06.15.11
  • 1939 Clear Car Showcases Miracle of Plexiglas
    By Katie Scott, Wired UK Alongside "glass that bends" and talking flashlights, exhibits at the 1939 New York World's Fair included the first full-sized transparent car ever made in America, a cool clear car that could be yours. The 1939 Pontiac Plexiglas Deluxe-Six Ghost Car is going under the auctioneer's hammer July 30, 2011, in Michigan, and ...
    06.15.11
  • Archery: Inherently Cool or Irresponsibly Dangerous?
    As an archery instructor (and co-director of the youth program at my local range), I am often asked about archery safety, usually by parents whose children have expressed interest in the sport. Whenever a movie comes out featuring archery, we get a wave of young people eager to be the next Legolas. Avatar was very ...
    06.14.11
  • Everloop Offers Safe Online Environment for Tweens
    Hilary DeCesare made a career out of helping executives put strategic frameworks around their products and services. It wasn't until her three children entered the tweens, though, that she realized how under-served that population is when it comes to social media. Now a co-founder and CEO of Everloop, DeCesare is evangelizing her company's protected online environment ...
    06.14.11
  • Solar Car Carrier Sees The Light Of Day With Hybrid Power
    Starting this month, Toyota's hybrid cars might be arriving on a hybrid ship augmented by solar power. We first told you about the Auriga Leader, a 60,000 ton carrier that can ferry up to 6,200 cars, back in 2008. It was retrofitted with a giant bank of solar cells in hopes of reducing CO2 emissions and ...
    06.14.11
  • Pilot Recounts Taming World's Fastest Helicopter
    Kevin Bredenbeck is more comfortable in a flight suit than a tuxedo, more at ease in the cockpit than on stage. But there he was last month at a black-tie event in Washington D.C. with his colleagues from Sikorsky Aircraft to receive the Collier Trophy, the aerospace industry's most prestigious award. 'I wasn't about to let ...
    06.14.11
  • Die Smiling on This Hoverbike
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK An Australian chap named Chris Malloy has built a hoverbike from motorbike parts, and he claims it can fly at 173 mph at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Those are theoretical figures for the time being because the contraption hasn't flown too far yet. Malloy bases those outlandish specs on the 231-pound ...
    06.14.11
  • Clean, Cheap Hydrogen Using Cobalt Catalysts
    By Kyle Niemeyer, Ars Technica For years, proponents of the hydrogen economy have argued that hydrogen will replace traditional hydrocarbon fuels for transportation purposes. But, so far, a lack of new, inexpensive methods for hydrogen production and storage has impeded this goal. Over the last several years, an MIT professor has been pushing cobalt catalysts as ...
    06.13.11
  • Tiny Rotary Engines Could Power Gadgets with Gasoline
    Clarian Lab's new generator is a gas-powered battery. That might sound backward in today's world of hybrid cars, but it actually turns out to be a pretty clever device. The Hybrid Battery is small, ultra-simple rotary engine with just two moving parts. Rotary engines -- like the famous Wankel -- are highly efficient and do away ...
    06.13.11
  • Throwback Mustang Muscle Car Is One Boss Ride
    Let's get one thing out of the way: This is the best Mustang ever built. Which makes it one of the best muscle cars ever built, which makes it one of the best cars ever built, period.
    06.12.11
  • Le Mans Racer's Mystery Bumps Explained
    This weekend is the annual gathering of sports cars in Le Mans, France for the most prestigious endurance car race of the year, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Raced over a mix of public roads and race track, the eight and a half mile road course is a challenge to engineers with much of ...
    06.10.11
  • New Aircraft Aluminum Set To Compete With Composites
    Aluminum producer Alcoa says they have a new aluminum alloy that can can save weight over composites in new airplane designs. The company claims an airplane built with the new metal is up to 10 percent lighter than "composite-intensive planes" which it points out translates to a fuel savings for the airlines. The new aluminum lithium ...
    06.10.11
  • Huge, Heavy Retro-Styled Box Juices MacBooks with C-Cells
    If you were looking for the most expensive and least ecologically-friendly way to power your MacBook, then you could do a lot worse than pick the MacBook Air External Power from Bird Electron. If your other criterion is to have a device that looks like a 1970s cassette tape recorder, then you really have no ...
    06.10.11
  • Ford to Triple Hybrid Production, Introduce Plug-In
    Ford is taking aim at two of its biggest competitors with a hybrid and plug-in hybrid based on the C-Max model it sells in Europe. The two cars roll into showrooms next year as part of the automaker's aggressive plan to triple production of hybrid and electric vehicles by 2013. The second-largest U.S. automaker has ...
    06.09.11
  • MotoCzysz Electric Superbike Will 'Blow Your Mind'
    The MotoCzysz E1pc is one bad-ass machine, no two ways about it, and it may well be the first electric motorcycle to lap the Isle of Man at more than 100 mph at the TT Zero race Thursday. We caught up with Michael Czysz on Wednesday when rain delayed the race and we got him to ...
    06.09.11
  • Battery Design Could Let EV Owners Say, 'Fill 'er Up!'
    Battery technology under development at MIT could someday make recharging batteries as quick and easy as a trip to the gas station. Known as semi-solid flow cells, the new battery design turns the chemistry of traditional lithium-ion batteries into quicksand-like tiny particles. The resultant slime -- which researchers jokingly call "Cambridge crude" -- has an extremely ...
    06.08.11
  • Prius Fuels Ideas for Good
    PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania -- From the hybrid drivetrain that keeps it moving to the solar ventilation system that keeps it cool, the Toyota Prius is packed with cool technology. And there's nothing that says it has to stay in the car. Toyota invited inventors to repurpose and repackage the hardware in the Prius beyond the automotive arena. ...
    06.08.11


 

 

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