12
May
"In a world dependent on fossil energies, Solar Impulse is a paradox, nearly a provocation."
Press release gobbledygook? Absolutely. But you’ve got to give it up for any company with the guts to try designing and building a true solar airplane.
We’ve written about Solar Impulse befo…
12
May
We’d heard Renault was prepping a new electric car in conjunction with EV start-up Project Better Place, but no one had actually seen the thing until its unveiling nowadays in Tel Aviv. The car itself only has a 125 mile range, which is where Project Better Place’s network of charging and batter…
11
May
Despite all the lawsuit hoopla by who-stole-what, Fisker Automotive is trudging along with its $80,000 Karma plug-in performance hybrid. New, stripey pictures of the actual vehicle in pop quiz runs popped up that week telling us that the Karma could actually hit dealers by 2009 as promised. The pi…
10
May
Although you can definitely pre-order an Aptera whether you’re okay with space-aged design, Volkswagen is hoping to supply another option for those looking for ridiculous MPG and a little bit of normalcy in interpretation. Okay, so perhaps the 1-Liter isn’t precisely standard fare — with its pl…
9
May
Someday soon your car may be able tell you about an oncoming vehicle in your lane on a blind curve or even calm you down on a harried commute. But it may plus tell your insurance company how often you drive by the speed limit or wired Starbucks when you drive by so that you can be offered a redu…
9
May
Fisker Automotive isn’t wasting any day getting its Karma plug-in hybrid on the road. Five months after pulling the wraps off the car at the Detroit auto show, they’re flogging a experiment mule in Southern California.
The pictures offer the best evidence yet that Henrik Fisker is serious abo…
9
May
Fisker Automotive isn’t wasting any duration getting its Karma plug-in hybrid on the road. Five months after pulling the wraps off the car at the Detroit auto show, they’re flogging a tryout mule in Southern California.
The pictures offer the best evidence yet that Henrik Fisker is serious ab…
9
May
Fisker Automotive isn’t wasting any duration getting its Karma plug-in hybrid on the road. Five months after pulling the wraps off the car at the Detroit auto show, they’re flogging a tryout mule in Southern California.
The pictures offer the best evidence yet that Henrik Fisker is serious ab…
9
May
Remember the guy who used 400 bucks worth of plastic and aluminum to turn his Honda Civic into a streamlined 70 mpg wonder? His local TV station recently profiled him and we thought you’d like to see the video.
There’s no two ways about it - the Aerocivic is still as ugly as it was when we fi…
9
May
Auto-safety pioneer and perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader is at it again.
The longtime activist is pushing the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration to require automakers to put stronger roofs on vehicles. Although the protest he led external the U.S. department of Tra…
9
May
California to Florida on 40 gallons of fuel? The humans at Quasar Aircraft hope so.
The company is developing the Quasar Light, a 500-pound light sport aircraft powered by a 121-pound HKS-700E
60-hp 4-stroke engine that burns amoung 1.7 and 3.5 gallons of fuel
per hour. Its 30-foot-span win…
9
May
Here at Cars.com we have a revolving fleet of new cars for our editorial department’s use. We drive these cars extensively so we can craft informed reviews, film video and produce various other composition, including blog posts. Logically, we know that the fuel used and carbon dioxide produced…
9
May
USA Today reports that Bobby Hedlund, the FAA manager currently responsible for overseeing the agency’s Southwest Airlines office, received months of flight training from the airline during 2005. that in itself isn’t news. The FAA has had an inspector training program in place for years, saying …
8
May
Call them the do-what-I-mean, not-what-I-say vehicles. The latest generation of luxury sports sedans continues to get smarter about adapting to your driving style, nearly telepathically.
This is certainly true with the forthcoming Mercedes Benz AMG C63, which features a sport mode in its traction…
