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• Buick Builds A Smartphone Game For Hypermilers
  02.06.12

• Autonomous Cars Through the Ages
  Google's self-driving Prius hybrids trace their lineage to an idea that captured the public's imagination in 1939. A look back at autonomous cars through the ages.
  02.06.12

• Autonomous Quadrotors Fly Amazing Formations
  Roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP are able to get as many as 20 amazing autonomous microcopters to fly in formation and perform complex maneuvers flawlessly.
  02.03.12

• The Water-Powered Car Clock Is Not a Myth!
  02.03.12

• GE Heads North For New Jet Engine Ice Test Facility
  02.02.12

• Automakers Slim Down With Weight Loss Support Group
  02.02.12

• Nissan's Electric Race Car Makes for Good, Clean Fun
  After a few laps around a track in Dubai, we discover the Nissan Leaf RC is as slow as it is expensive, but nevertheless awesome.
  02.02.12

• Nissan's Slippery Solar Ship Saves 13 Tons Of Fuel Each Trip
  02.01.12

• New Lava Dome Spotted at Cleveland Volcano in Alaska
  02.01.12

• Symbols May Make License Plates Easier to Read, Remember
  A Massachusetts businessman redesigns the license plate to make it easier for crime victims and witnesses to remember registration numbers.
  01.31.12

• A 'Silver Buckshot' Will Mend Our Fuelish Ways
  No one technology will lead us to a cleaner, greener motoring future. We'll see a range of fuels and drivetrains.
  01.31.12

• Airlines Develop Strategies For Getting Carbon Credits
  01.27.12

• Airbus Finds Fix For Cracks In Super Jumbo Wings
  01.26.12

• Toyota's Headed to Le Mans — With Hybrids
  01.25.12

• Northrop Grumman's Futuristic Flying Wing Cribs From its Past
  The company dusts off an idea from the 1940s as it looks to the future of commercial air travel.
  01.25.12

• Steam Power Conference Anything But Boilerplate
  01.24.12

• Toyota 2000GT EV Conversion Is Solar-Powered Sacrilege
  We love electric vehicles, but even we think making a solar EV out of a mint-condition Toyota 2000GT is going too far.
  01.23.12

• Boeing's Biggest 747 To Fly With Empty Tail Tanks
  01.23.12

• Feds Say Volt Is Safe, Close Battery Inquiry
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closes the investigation it launched after two Chevrolet Volts caught fire in the days and weeks after they were crashed-tested.
  01.20.12

• Robo-Copter Will Keep Tabs on Navy's Biofuel Plants
  The Navy's betting big that it can grow its own fuel for its future jets and ships. So now its partners at the Department of Agriculture have bought a tiny drone helicopter to make sure its crops of biofuel sugar plants in Hawaii are sprouting healthily. Watching the grass grow was never this fascinating.
  01.20.12

• Hexplane: The Six-Engine Airliner-Helicopter Hybrid
  The V-22 Osprey? Pffft. Please. This VTOL aircraft has the body of a 737 and six -- count 'em, six -- engines. Well, the rendering does, anyway. We'll see if it's ever built.
  01.20.12

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of CES Cars
  Competing for your attention at CES is tough, so many automotive gadget companies resort to outlandish show cars. Here are the best and worst from CES 2012.
  01.20.12

• Cessna Flight Testing Its Fastest Jet Ever
  01.19.12

• GM Opens a New Window on Entertainment
  General Motors visits the future and comes back with tablet-like rear windows to keep your kids entertained and educated on long drives.
  01.19.12

• China's Aviation Push Continues With New Helicopter
  01.19.12

• To the L.L. Bean Bootmobile -- And Step on It!
  A company that made its name selling odd but comfortable boots now has the coolest novelty car ever.
  01.19.12

• Jay Leno Explains Why McLaren's MP4-12C Is Awesome
  Jay Leno tells us all about flogging his newest toy.
  01.18.12