Japan’s Prime Minister Becomes First Toyota Mirai Owner
21 Jan 2015, 10:56 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / “As you are aware, creating FCVs is not something that can be done by a single automaker” Toyota’s CEO Akio Toyoda said the moment he passed the keys of the first mass-produced fue...
Bike Sense Safety Tech Can Prevent Accidents Involving Bicycles and Motorbikes
20 Jan 2015, 11:45 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This editor is one of those drivers that’s caught in a dilemma regarding the bicycles versus vehicles topic. Trying to ease off congestion and being just a tad healthier by riding a bicycle to...
You Can Buy a Driven-by-Human Giant Robot With McLaren P1 Money
19 Jan 2015, 13:12 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Since there are at least two years left before Avatar 2 hits the big screens, maybe you should finally call that rich uncle you have and ask him for a loan. Tell him you want to buy your dream car, ...
Forget SpaceX, China Wants To Mine the Frigging Moon
19 Jan 2015, 10:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You must be well acquainted with Elon Musk’s SpaceX program that should reduce space traveling costs and put people on Mars. Well, China is here to blow your mind with yet another crazy idea -...
2015 Yamaha YZF-R1M Gets You Close to MotoGP Technology
17 Jan 2015, 08:58 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Rivalries are fierce in the superbike segment, and the pride is high, but when it comes to supremacy and hierarchies, the stopwatch readings at the track are the only thing that matters. The all-new...
Elon Musk Just Donated $10 Million to Stop Judgement Day, Keep AI Beneficial
16 Jan 2015, 09:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When James Cameron wrote the epic science fiction thriller The Terminator, the movie that basically launched his film career and consolidated that of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the world would meet the ...
Autonomous Submarine Scans for Deep Sea Lifeforms - Autosub6000
15 Jan 2015, 09:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s kinda funny to think about putting people to Mars when we haven’t even explored our oceans completely. It is only these times we have the technology to go deeper and see what kind o...
Cheap Carbon Fiber is a Priority for Ford
14 Jan 2015, 18:11 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Well good morning to you too, sunshine! FoMoCo finally realized that cheap carbon fiber is the way to go for a sustainable future. High-volume low-cost carbon fiber components aren’t something...
Honda VTEC Turbo Just Kicked In Yo’, New Forced-Fed Engines to Be Assembled in the US
14 Jan 2015, 16:30 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you are a petrolhead, then you have no excuse to not know about the “VTEC just kicked in, yo!” line. If you don’t, consider it as 4chan rambling for sudden-velocity situations a...
Local Motors Is Really Into 3D Printed Cars, Opening Two Mini Factories
14 Jan 2015, 14:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The 3D printing technique can be looked at as the second industrial revolution, enabling people to build what they need and when they want as long as they have the digital blueprints and the require...
New Belt Airbag Designed to Protect Falling Seniors
14 Jan 2015, 13:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The first commercial airbags were introduced in passenger cars during the 1970s. We won’t start arguing who was first or who invented them, but we’ll tell you they remained in the automo...
Tesla Firmware 6.1 Update Introduces Traffic-Aware Cruise Control for Autopilot
13 Jan 2015, 20:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With the Tesla Model S P85D and Tesla OS 6.0, an important addition to the Palo Alto-based electric vehicle manufacturer was the Autopilot function. If this feature wasn’t science-fiction enou...
Nissan Teams Up With NASA for Autonomous Car Development
13 Jan 2015, 14:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The future is all about boring autonomous vehicles and you can’t do anything to stop that. Even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believes in it and teamed up with Nissa...
Bio-Organic Nano Crystals Can Revolutionize the EV Industry with Ultra-Fast Charging
11 Jan 2015, 12:08 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / “Range, the final frontier” is probably one of the saying which are closest to the truth when it comes to electric mobility. The limits of these vehicles are set by the very limits of cu...
Neil Young’s Pono High-Def Music Service to Be Installed in Future Cars
10 Jan 2015, 13:19 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Ever since the digital era kicked in, sound streaming devices have turned smaller. Sure, this is quite helpful since nobody really likes walking around with a device the size of a plate in their han...
Vindskip Concept Bringing Back Old Wind-Powered Boat Travel
9 Jan 2015, 17:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Sailboats are now used for pleasure rides across the sea or lakes. In the meantime, the industrial sailing had to find a quicker way of shipping stuff so it started burning fossil fuels since the In...
Kraftwerk Is the Ultimate Gadget Charger for the Touring Rider
8 Jan 2015, 16:56 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here’s an amazing gadget for the touring riders, and especially for those who plan to take longer trips away from the grid. Enter Kraftwerk, the first portable fuel cell power source which fit...
Forget About Scale Model Toy Bikes, 3D Print Yourself a Full-Size One
8 Jan 2015, 14:53 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / 3D printers are definitely making life much more fun, with the new opportunities they open. Both riding and non-riding fellows seem to enjoy exploring new directions, some of them providing technica...
Tesla’s Freaky Metal Snake Cord Could Look Like This
8 Jan 2015, 12:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / One of Elon Musk’s recent tweets said they are working on a robotic “metal snake” that will act as an automatic cord to plug in any Tesla vehicle and spare you from the hellish tas...
Scientists Believe Future Cars Could Be Made of Cotton, Hemp and Wood
8 Jan 2015, 09:35 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Sure, we all know aluminum and even some of the classic metals are sort of overrated when it comes to the automative industry nowadays. The population of the world is getting bigger by the second, p...