Google's Driverless Car Hits The Road
Road rage could soon be a thing of the past as the world’s first driverless cars have hit the road in America.
A specially modified Toyota Prius owned and programmed by Google, has just ...
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Audi Says Billion Dollar 'Ola' To Mexico
Mexico is becoming a key, if slightly unlikely, battle ground for global car producers.
German giant Audi is the latest manufacturer to announce huge investment programmes when it announced it would be spending in the ...
Read more …How Green Are Electric Cars?
Just how green is an electric car ? Not quite as green as you think,especially when you consider how the electric to charge each vehicle is produced, it seems.
You might have been forgiven for ...
Read more …BMW Recall Faulty Battery Cars
One of the world’s biggest luxury car makers has issued an urgent recall of top of the range models.
German manufacturer BMW says that previous generations of the 5-Series and the 6-Series, that were ...
Read more …New Lunar Tires Ready For Lift Off
They are the tires that are ready to boldly go where no tire has been before - if only someone would take them.
The only trouble for the space ready generation of tires is that there ...
Read more …China Slowing Hybrid Car Industry
The global technology battle has taken a new twist with complaints that China is restricting supplies of rare earth minerals needed to make high end consumer goods including hybrid cars.
China is responsible for around ...
Read more …The Green Solution To Tire Recycling
Scrap tires are such a problem that it’s now reckoned there is one for every single person on earth. In the USA alone it’s estimated that 300 million tires of different sizes are ...
Read more …Robo-Cabs
It has long been the stuff of science fiction - cars that drive themselves.
Now that dream has taken an unexpected step forward after the US state of Nevada set down ground rules for self-drive cars ...
Forget White Van Man - Meet Green Van Man
We have all heard of 'white van man' - the menace of the modern road. Now, it seems, we are about to meet a new breed of driver - Green van man.
Electric vans that plug in ...
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Solar-Powered Plane
Petrol price rises up? Are you tired to pay a gasoline plus for a flight ticket? No problem, you have to wait some years but finally you will be able to fly form USA to Europe with cheap prices. You don’t believe me? Look! Solar Impulse has demonstrated that a solar-powered airplane can fly day and night using no fuel!
The solar-powered plane has flown for a 4,000 miles trip, making the first solar-powered intercontinental round-trip air journey, from Africa to Europe and it landed in Switzerland, Payerne. This flight tested endurance and reliability, and the organizers aimed ...
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Audi R18 hybrid race car wins in Le Mans
Economic Crisis? Gasoline too expensive? You want drive fast and safe? No problems! Audi ran with an Hybrid prototype race car and it won in Le Mans 24 hours race! In fact Audi announced the new R18 e-tron quattro, a prototype race car brimmed with new drive technology: R18 e-tron Quattro incorporates a diesel hybrid power train that runs with its all-wheel drive system. Tecnology and tests driven the Audi technicians to plan the race car’s operating principle with a kinetic energy recovery braking system that sends electricity into a flywheel accumulator and then it sent back down to ...
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Meet Zoe - The Future Of Electric Car Technology
Sceptics who doubt that electric cars have a long-term future often cite their lack of range as a reason why they won’t replace petrol-driven vehicles any time soon.
Analysts reckon this has been a real barrier to the growth of electric and hybrid cars. But there’s growing evidence that battery powered cars will soon be able to rack up long journeys - and consign that argument to history.
Many manufacturers are investing heavily in batteries that can sustain long distance journeys, among them Renault And to prove the point the French manufacturer has just broken a world record with its latest green vehicle, the Renault Zoe.
The Zoe recently set a new distance record for pure electric cars clocking a total of 1618 kilometres or 1,050 miles on the Aubevoye speed ring in Normandy.
This beat the previous electric vehicle distance record by a 25 per cent ...
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$5 Million Supercar To Go On Sale
The ultimate supercar is about to go under the auctioneer’s hammer - with bidders expected to pay up to $5 million for a chance to drive the vehicle.
The 1997 McLaren F1 GTR is being sold off in California. The 240mph F1 model is believed to be the fastest production car to have been produced and took part in races at top tracks including Nurburgring, Donington and Laguna Seca.
It is being sold at the 2012 Bonhams Auction of Exceptional Motorcars, taking place in Carmel in August this year. Bonhams are describing the car as 'the 20th Century’s ultimate motoring icon'
Mark Osborne, head of motoring at Bonhams added: 'We are delighted to have been appointed by an international collector to represent this breathtaking piece of competition machinery. Racing legends like the McLaren F1 GTR rarely if ever appear at auction.'
The McLaren F1 road car was built ...
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