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• Puyehue-Cordón Caulle ash makes it to Buenos Aires and Paraguay
  The eruption that started Saturday at Puyehue-Cordón Caulle along the Chilean-Argentine border is still going - and still causing problems for people living in the zone where ash and pumice (see below) is falling. The plume itself is spreading to the north and east of the volcano as you can see in an image posted ...
  06.07.11

• The Secret History of Boeing's Killer Drone
  When the pilotless, wing-shaped warplane lifted off a runway at California's Edwards Air Force Base for the first time on the morning of April 27, it was like the resurrection of the dead. The Boeing Phantom Ray -- one of the most advanced drones ever built -- came close to never flying at all. In late ...
  06.06.11

• Spectacular images and video of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile
  I am beginning to think the volcanoes plan it this way, but what is up with two of the biggest eruptions of 2011 falling on the weekend? Definitely makes it more difficult for me to keep up with all the action, that is for sure. Saturday we saw a large eruption from Puyehue-Cordón Caulle (top left) in central ...
  06.06.11

• Ford's Building Its Tiniest Engine Yet
  Ford is developing its smallest engine ever, a wee little three-cylinder mill with the displacement of a soda bottle. The tiny engine is part of the automaker's push to increase the fuel efficiency of its lineup by building smaller, but more powerful, engines. Despite its itty-bitty size, Ford says the turbocharged 1.0-liter Ecoboost engine will provide ...
  06.03.11

• An Electric Rolls May Not Roll
  Rolls-Royce has built the most extraordinary electric vehicle yet, a mind-bogglingly luxurious car as smooth as it is big. But that isn't enough to convince Rolls-Royce customers to buy one. Rolls-Royce has been showing the 102EX Phantom Experimental Electric to many current Rolls owners, and so far the response has been, "Very nice. But..." As is ...
  06.03.11

• Airlines, FAA Chart New Course With iPads
  As Alaska Airlines becomes the first airline to ditch traditional flight manuals in favor of the Apple iPad, the Federal Aviation Administration is revising its rules to account for the rising popularity of tablets. The agency, like the airlines, is catching up with the times to establish guidelines for the use and certification of the devices ...
  06.03.11

• Lincoln Loosens Its Tie With This Luxury Crossover
  Lincoln's plush people-mover is an example of a car where designers were freed by new technology to pen a car that could not have otherwise existed. From a design standpoint, it's Kenny G, live in concert.
  06.03.11

• Largest LEGO Technic Ever Is a Unimog
  By Matt Hardigee, Jalopnik The European truck most noted for its complete badassedness is the Mercedes-Benz Unimog ¿ a vehicle so large Daimler decided Americans would find it offensively huge. LEGO is celebrating the truck's 60th anniversary with a 2,000+ piece Unimog U 400 that's the largest Technic set ever sold. The incredibly awesome Unimog is used ...
  06.03.11

• Meet Recargo, Another EV Charging App
  Just when it seems like there are more apps to help EV owners find public plugs than there are actual charging stations, a new player has entered the game. Recargo, from Dictionary.com founder Brian Kariger, offers a searchable database of the world's charging stations. Like similar apps, Recargo relies on data from the US Department of Energy's ...
  06.02.11

• Audi A1 Clubsport Quattro: An Even Hotter Hatch
  Every year, the German village of Wörthersee hosts Volkswagen and Audi fans from around the world who show off their classic, collectible and tuned cars. This year, Audi will have them all beat. For the 30th anniversary of the car meet, the automaker is bringing an über-customized A1 that weighs just over 3,000 lbs. and can do ...
  06.01.11

• Fisker Has Prince Albert In a Car
  Henrik Fisker took a ride around Monaco in one of his impossibly pretty electric vehicles with none other than Prince Albert II of Monaco. The prince, who has long loved fast cars, was at the wheel as the two men lapped Monaco's famed street circuit. The parade laps, made before the start of qualifying for the ...
  05.31.11

• Volvo Gets More Power From Less Fuel, No Batteries Required
  Volvo is experimenting with flywheel energy storage technology that it says delivers improved fuel economy without sacrificing performance. The Swedish automaker has joined Jaguar, Ferrari and others in looking to kinetic energy recovery systems to provide additional power and fuel economy. The technology is familiar to F1 fans who have been witnessed the rise and fall ...
  05.31.11

• High-Altitude Helicopter Rescue Sets Record
  When helicopter pilot Andy Hermansky left the base camp of Alaska's Mt. McKinley at 7,200 feet, the winds had subsided to a manageable 50 miles per hour. They'd been much stronger for the past several hours, and there was an injured climber stranded high atop North America's tallest mountain. Reaching the climber, who'd broken his leg ...
  05.27.11

• Red Bull Turns to Nissan For Electric Help
  Some of the technical know-how that makes the Nissan Leaf such a remarkable EV could make Red Bull's F1 cars a little more reliable, if not a little bit faster. Although Red Bull has thoroughly dominated the Formula 1 season thus far, it hasn't been able to figure out how to make its kinetic energy recovery ...
  05.27.11

• Boeing 787 Heading To Japan For Real World Tests
  After more than three years of delays, Boeing appears to be zeroing in on the delivery date for its long anticipated 787 Dreamliner. The company announced today that it will be flying the second test aircraft (ZA002) to Japan in July to work with launch partner All Nippon Airways to simulate in-service operations at various ...
  05.26.11

• Bioengineering Algae to Make Hydrogen
  Researchers have discovered a way of bioengineering algae to produce hydrogen. Many species of algae and cyanobacteria can use sunlight to split water and release hydrogen, a potentially eco-friendly way of producing hydrogen for fuel cells. No one's seriously pursued it, however, because the process is secondary to producing compounds the algae need to live. "The ...
  05.26.11

• That about wraps it up for the Grímsvötn eruption
  Alright, so the title of the post is a little cheeky, but right now it appears that the eruption of Grímsvötn that started last Saturday (May 21) is for all intents and purposes over (at least for the time being). Although there is still some minor explosive activity from 3-4 tephra cones near the crater, it ...
  05.26.11

• Elon Musk Has No Interest in Selling Out
  Updated: May 25, 2011; 3:45 p.m. EST to include Tesla's announcement that it will sell more stock. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says he has no plans to sell his stake in the company and believes Tesla will remain an independent automaker. "I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company," Musk said ...
  05.25.11

• Swedish Style Icon Turns 50
  Throughout most of the past century, Volvo built cars that were solid and reliable, yet somewhat uninspired. That changed 50 years ago this year, when the first P1800 rolled off an assembly line. Though billed as a car with Swedish, British and Italian heritage, the head-turning two-door turned out to be more Scandinavian than anyone ...
  05.25.11

• Ash emissions end at Grímsvötn as European airspace reopens
  As quickly as it started, the eruption at Grímsvötn seems to be ending. Ash emissions from the volcano ceased early this morning (Iceland time) and now only steam plumes remain at the crater of Grímsvötn (see below). Even yesterday, the plume had dropped below 5 km (from a previous high of 20 km) as the ...
  05.25.11

• Wavejet: Powered Surfboard Mixes Electricity and Water
  It seems like there is a conspiracy afoot. A conspiracy designed to turn even the sportiest of people into lazy lumps of lard. A conspiracy to put electric motors into every human-powered mode of transport. Electric bikes for the frail or elderly I can understand, but an electric surfboard? Crazy. But that's just what you get ...
  05.24.11

• Visions of the Future, Inked Onto a Smart
  By Alice Vincent, Wired UK One Smart ForTwo, two days, 150 tweets and several Sharpies combined in a collaborative view of the future and the inventions, improvements and bizarre events that come with it. Smart asked the twittersphere to compress its visions of the future into 140 characters or less, then had illustrator Johanna Basford draw ...
  05.24.11

• Grímsvötn ash cloud causes flight disruptions (but Ryanair president says it doesn't exist)
  The ash from the Grímsvötn eruption in Iceland has now made its way to the British Isles and over 200 flights have been delayed or cancelled due to the ash, mostly of which are in British airspace, although some flights to Scandinavian countries (and Greenland) have been effected as well. This number could climb to ...
  05.24.11

• A Rotary Will Wail at Le Mans Once Again
  Twenty years ago, Mazda became the first -- and so far only -- Japanese automaker to win the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans. To celebrate the anniversary, Mazda is bringing the winning car out of retirement to take another lap of the famed track. The Mazda 787B was one hell of a car, the first ...
  05.23.11

• Automotive Black Boxes, Minus the Gray Area
  Update 5:30 p.m. May 24: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will require that all new vehicles have an event data recorder. The agency is at this point only considering such a requirement. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will later this year propose a requirement that ...
  05.23.11

• Sir Stirling Moss to Return to Le Mans
  By Mike Spinelli, Jalopnik Never, ever let it be said that Sir Stirling Moss is not at least a dozen kinds of badass. Sir Moss, who is 81 years young, bought a super-rare Porsche RS 61 last year at the Amelia Island Auction for $1.7 million, then crashed it at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. It's fixed, and ...
  05.23.11

• Keeping tabs on the Grímsvötn eruption as the ash spreads towards Europe
  We're now into the third day of the new eruption from Grímsvötn in Iceland. So far, the ash from the eruption has fallen only on Iceland and the North Atlantic Ocean as the plume remains ~6-9 km / ~20,000-30,000 feet tall (down from close to 15-20 km / 50-60,000 feet over the weekend). significantly so ...
  05.23.11