Andrei Nedelea
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Personal motto:
"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself" - Ferdinand Porsche
He is a strong believer in the recent developments in green car tech and especially its entertaining applications. However, for him, green is more than just a brash color sprayed onto a supercar, it's a different way of thinking and perceiving modern car culture.
Chrysler Files for Another Patent
10 Jul 2012, 08:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We recently reported that Chrysler would be changing the denomination of their diesel engines, from ‘CRD’ to ‘EcoDiesel’, according to a recent patent filing application they registered. Apparently, though, they will be addi...
Questions Raised Regarding Lada Build Quality!
10 Jul 2012, 08:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / This is one of the things you are least likely to see on the road - a car’s bonnet flying clean off the body without as much as a pothole to unsettle the vehicle it came from, as it just simply flies off. If it’s a Lada we’re t...
Corvette C7 Front Bumper Design Accidentally Leaked?
10 Jul 2012, 07:56 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the launch of the next-gen Chevrolet Corvette C7 is still about two years away, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the car’s design hasn’t already been finalized. Apparently, some images of the upcoming car’s front bum...
Scotland Maintains 70 MPH Highway Limit
10 Jul 2012, 07:36 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The British Government is looking to increase the speed limit for all its highways from the 70 mph (113 km/h) motorists have been used to for the last 47 years, to 80 mph (128 km/h). While the idea isn’t final, before the actual enforceme...
Scottish Cops Want Mandatory Speed Limiters on All Cars
10 Jul 2012, 07:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite the fact that Scotland’s roads are officially the safest they’ve ever been since the recording of fatalities began, the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (ASPS) wants to take safety even further. Their goal is to ge...
Isuzu Recalling 11,000 Rodeo Sport and Amigo SUVs
9 Jul 2012, 15:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Salt is used in most of the world’s countries to de-ice roads, and while cheap and relatively efficient, it damages cars’ paint jobs, as well as any exposed metallic components which are untreated. So too is the case with around 11,000 ...
2013 Mazda 6 to Get Regen Brakes Which Boost Economy by up to 10%
9 Jul 2012, 14:58 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda is still trying to be different, and despite seeming like it is following the herd, we say they have some clever plans up their sleeve, some of which are know, others currently not. One of these plans is the introduction of a special kind of ...
GreenTech Automotive Blessed by Bill Clinton - Production Commences
9 Jul 2012, 14:17 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While Green Tech Automotive is a relatively unknown name on the increasingly-busy EV marketplace. The company was founded in 2006 and up until recently, they had yet to begin production of their first (and only) offering, dubbed MyCar. Now, unde...
Save the Arctic, Or Else Polar Bears Will Wander the Streets of London!
9 Jul 2012, 13:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While we’ve seen heart-touching campaigns which give our heartstrings a good tug, this short video, with the musical background provided by Radiohead and narrated by Jude Law is definitely interesting enough to warrant our attention. Its mess...
BMW Investing £250 / €315 Million in UK MINI Manufacturing
9 Jul 2012, 13:18 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / BMW officials have announced the investment of a further £250 / €315 million by the end of 2015, in its Oxford, Swindon and Hams Hall UK plants. Aside from the Oxford plant where the cars are put together, the Swindon plant handles the f...
Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor - Enfield 8000-Based Performance EV
9 Jul 2012, 12:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It is projects like this that make us proud to be motoring journalists. One man with an excellent idea is given the financial backing he needs to make his dream a reality. The project is undertaken by Fifth Gear’s Johnny Smith, who will attem...
Fiat Industrial Receives Loan for ‘Green’ Tech Development
9 Jul 2012, 12:04 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As the world struggles to recover from the recession (Europe more so than other regions), automakers, even those who want to develop planet-friendly technologies, receive much less backing than they should - from within their own company, so they a...
Skoda Death by Digger Explained Plus Three New Videos!
9 Jul 2012, 11:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We were saddened to last week when we showed you a perfectly good Skoda Superb being flattened in a very barbaric fashion by a man in a digger. Well, according to carscoop.blogspot.com, there are in fact three more videos of different Skoda models ...
Annual EV Sales to Surpass 152,000 Units in China by 2017
9 Jul 2012, 11:01 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The global EV market is on the rise, and its rising at a rate which is already surpassing predictions made 10 years ago. Since this is now a global trend, and China is a huge player on the global car market (largest market), it is safe to assume th...
Power Steering Issue Prompts BMW to Recall ActiveE and Z4
9 Jul 2012, 10:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / BMW’s all electric 1-Series Coupe-based ActiveE, along with the Z4 are being recalled due to a potential steering issue. The total number of vehicles being recalled is 162, as variations in the electrical power of the system, causing it to in...
Mercedes-Benz SLS E-Cell at Silveretta E-Car Rally
9 Jul 2012, 09:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Silveretta E-Car Rally, now in its third edition, is a special type of rally which is designed to test and push EVs to their constructive limits, in order to force problems to appear, then allow the manufacturers to counteract the problem so th...
Ozzie Zehner’s ‘Green Illusions’ Tells Us Not to Support EVs
9 Jul 2012, 09:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The EV craze is sweeping the world at an unprecedented rate. Each day brings forth new ways of using electricity as a means of propulsion more and more efficiently, it being one of the fields of activity where scientific breakthroughs through innov...
Better Place EVs Surpass 1-Million Km Mark
9 Jul 2012, 08:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember Better Place, a company operating battery swapping stations (mainly) in Israel, and more recently in Denmark, using Renault EVs since the start of their program. Now, their entire fleet of vehicles has successfully surpassed the 1-...
Roskva Electric Motorbike Revealed in Norway
9 Jul 2012, 08:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Roskva electric motorbike was a very promising project undertaken by some very talented Norwegian engineering students. Well, while we had only previously seen the bike in sketches or 3D models, now we can see it in the . . . carbon (chassis an...
ABS Brakes Now Standard on All BMW Motorbikes
9 Jul 2012, 08:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / As more and more safety systems become legal requirements (at least on cars), it seems that motorbikes are beginning to adopt many of the features now standard on cars, to make them a bit safer - there are even talks about motorbike airbags. So,...