New 4-in-1-Piston Engine Concept to Rival Hybrids
22 Oct 2014, 12:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Despite being in use for more than a century, combustion engines are still way to complex and inefficient in turing fossil fuel to mechanical work. Naturally, engineers have been battling their way ...
Hydrogen Cars to Benefit from Coconut Kernels
22 Oct 2014, 09:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The problem with fuel cell cars is that the hydrogen they need to create electricity on board is quite expensive to store safely. Thus a lot more money needs to be invested into the infrastructure, ...
Apple Turning the iPhone into Your Car Key - Patent Applied
21 Oct 2014, 16:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The idea of controlling your car over from a distance came around with the invention of anti-theft alarms, with arming/disarming being done from a key fob. Time went by and the industry appears to d...
Ford Made a Seat that Detects Heart Attacks
21 Oct 2014, 09:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ford thinks in the future we’ll see a lot of old drivers hanging on to their car keys for as long as its physically possible to drive. And you know what happens when an old person refuses to g...
Man-Powered Watercraft from Kickstarter Going for World Speed Record
20 Oct 2014, 12:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We heard London wants to build a £600-million ($956 million) floating pathway for bicycles on the river Thames to fight against rush-hour traffic. Well, that’s a bit costly, reason why w...
Very Cool Planetary Gear Reverse for Street Glide Could Expand to Any Bagger
17 Oct 2014, 12:19 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here’s a very neat idea Yelvington Trikes presented at the 2014 AIMExpo, a bike show which is getting underway in Florida as we write. The idea is not exactly a science breakthrough, but is a ...
Smart Programmable Bending Carbon Fibre Could Change Cars
15 Oct 2014, 16:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Imagine some parts of your car could change their shape on the go to improve efficiency. You’ll say there are actually such systems available, like active shutters, flaps or wings, but then I&...
London Could Have a Floating 8-Mile-Long Pathway Designed Only For Bikes
15 Oct 2014, 17:26 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / All the car manufacturers are slowly turning their heads towards efficient motors, as electric cars become more and more popular. But Europe seems to be one step forward of everybody else, as the po...
Ducati Introduces the Desmodromic Variable Timing Technology
15 Oct 2014, 16:10 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Ducati has made public the new Variable Valve Timing technology we wrote about only two days ago. While one of the small mysteries was whether the D from the DVT acronym stood for Ducati, Dynamic or...
Battery that Charges in Two Minutes Set to Revolutionize Electric Vehicles
15 Oct 2014, 09:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yeah, electric vehicles would have been a lot more common now if it wasn’t for the limitations current lithium-ion batteries come with. Pretty expensive and rather inefficient by comparing the...
Still Waiting for a Flying Car? Check Out the Maverick You can Already Buy
15 Oct 2014, 09:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s pretty hard to make a vehicle that will perfectly work both on roads and in air without compromising comfort, performance, safety, versatility, ease of use and, most important, cost. We r...
Graphene-Painted Batteries Could Revolutionize Electric Motorcycles
13 Oct 2014, 14:52 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / A team led by two Italian researchers, Vittorio Pellegrini and Bruno Scrosati at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa has reached preliminary results which might bring a new edge in electric...
Ducati Multistrada to Get Variable Valve Timing?
13 Oct 2014, 12:39 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Ducati is said to upgrade their Multistrada with variable valve timing and the introduction of the new engine is announced for October 14, ahead of the debut of the 2014 AIMExpo. However, it looks l...
London to Have Driverless Trains in 2022
10 Oct 2014, 14:34 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The future is all about lazy people waiting for artificially intelligent machines to do most of their hard jobs. Whether we’re talking "driverless" drones that chase our ever move a...
2015 Zero SR, an 102 MPH Electric Bike
9 Oct 2014, 11:51 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Showcasing the 2015 SR model, Zero Motorcycles describes it as offering ”more power, higher top speed and greater acceleration”. Knowing that Zero performed a set of serious upgrades to ...
Windowless Military Ground Armored Vehicle by DARPA Sounds Like Ender's Game
9 Oct 2014, 09:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Those bizarre military vehicles you’ve seen in video games might come true as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently researching a new class of armored ground units...
GM to Cut Costs by Using Only 4 Platforms By 2025
7 Oct 2014, 16:45 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / General Motors CEO Mary Barra revealed during an investor briefing that the company she helms is aiming to use just 4 platforms instead of the 26 the American automaker uses at the present moment. ...
Mazda Adaptive LED Headlights Technology to Come to Future Mazda Passenger Vehicles
7 Oct 2014, 15:52 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Most petrolheads know what adaptive headlights do: the beams turn around the bend as you turn the steering wheel, improving better view of what is ahead especially during nighttime driving. To bo...
These Autonomous Boats Use the Same Technology as NASA's Mars Rover
7 Oct 2014, 14:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / While everybody struggles to be the first at making self-driving cars, it would seem similar competitions happen for vehicles traveling in the air and on water, as well. The Office of Naval Research...
World's Smallest Disconnecting AWD System Was Engineered by British Company GKN Driveline
7 Oct 2014, 13:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / GKN Driveline is considered to be the world's leading supplier of automotive driveline components. Specialized in AWD, eDrive and constant-velocity joint systems as well as trans axle solutions...