Seoul Putting a Ban on Uber App
23 Jul 2014, 09:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The most famous ride-sharing app continues to create controversies with its services. This time it’s South Korea’s capital Seoul, where the city council is currently planning to ban the ...
Sunswift’s eVe Is a Record-Breaking Solar Electric Vehicle
22 Jul 2014, 09:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There are two types of electric vehicles now; those build for road use and those for breaking records. The differences between the two are huge, and while the passenger ones are build for comfort an...
ICON A5 Amphibious Aircraft Has Automative Lotus Interior Design and You Want It
21 Jul 2014, 17:32 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Developed by ICON Aircraft, A5 is an American amphibious light-sport aircraft that has an automotive-style interior jointly developed with Lotus. It seats two people in an enclosed cockpit, powered ...
Tetrahedrite Can Turn Exhaust Heat Into Electricity for Hybrid Cars
21 Jul 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Everyone knowing a thing or two about internal combustion engines can tell you their efficiency is rather limited. A big part of the energy “stored” in gasoline is lost through the heat ...
Tesla Model S Hacked by Qihoo 360 at Security Conference
18 Jul 2014, 13:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / A team of Chinese hackers managed to break into the electronic brain of the Tesla Model S and control various core functions of the electric vehicle. This first documented successful hack of the EV ...
Ready to Change Gears in an Electric Car? Bosch Says it’s Possible
18 Jul 2014, 10:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / In case you don’t know why you have a gearbox in your car, that’s because a combustion engine revs to only around 8,000 rpm and has its sweet spots where it provides maximum power and to...
Cylinder Deactivation Heading to Three-Cylinder Engines
18 Jul 2014, 06:17 UTC · By: Jeffrey Ross / Cylinder deactivation has been a great tool in recent years to help big, fuel-thirsty V-8s operate a little more efficiently at times, but one supplier could be developing a new system that could br...
A Quick Guide to Motorcycle Rake, Trail, and Offset, Part 2 (Final)
17 Jul 2014, 15:25 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Welcome to the second part of our short digression about motorcycle geometry. The first piece dealt with rake and trail and how these two figures affect the steering and the overall feel of a motorc...
Survey Says We Won’t Drive Anymore in 2023, Bummer!
17 Jul 2014, 09:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Not only cars are transforming into Playstations on wheels now, but in the near future, you also won’t need to operate them according to new study. In fact they won’t even have steering ...
MASTER Anti-Theft Program in the UK Is Really Working
16 Jul 2014, 15:08 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / With 26,000 motorcycles stolen in the UK each year, it’s easy to understand that bike owners and insurers are having nightmare when it comes to paying for stolen goods, and the Police is defin...
D-Step Shift Logic to Make Nissan CVT Shift Like an Automatic Transmission
16 Jul 2014, 12:08 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Most of you know what a continuously variable transmission is all about. This design is a favorite among Japanese carmakers, Nissan included. In the United States, the Versa, Altima, Quest and Pathf...
Honda’s Latest Asimo Will Open Bottles in Europe
16 Jul 2014, 10:00 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The latest generation of Honda’s humanoid robot, Asimo, has made its European debut in Brussels today. Enhanced with sign language in Japanese and American, Asimo is able to open a bottle and ...
EPIC Car Seats are Designed to Save the Lives of Sleepy Drivers
15 Jul 2014, 20:34 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / You may not have heard of Plessey Semiconductors before, but this company is the mastermind behind the EPIC circuit at the base of a new project from Nottingham Trent University. Simply put, Electri...
2015 Cadillac Escalade to Get 8-Speed Automatic & 360-Degree Camera System
15 Jul 2014, 13:30 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Cadillac's flagship SUV, along with other full-size models from General Motors such as the GMC Yukon and Chevrolet Tahoe, will get a minor update for the "2015.5" model year. The most...
Tesla Owner Talking You Through Model S Battery Degradation
15 Jul 2014, 09:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If conventional car owners fear their engines won’t make the same amount of horsepower after some 100 thousand kilometers, electric vehicle owners are concerned about their car’s battery...
Toyota Plans Massive Engine Lineup Changes
14 Jul 2014, 09:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Adopting the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform is just part of Toyota’s plan to reduce cost productions, increase efficiency and sell more cars. The new strategy also includes a m...
Automakers, Please Don’t Turn all Cars into Playstations on Wheels
11 Jul 2014, 16:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The wheel has been discovered some 5,000 years ago, yet our cars have barely went past their 100th anniversary if we use the first mass produced Ford Model T as a starting point. Compared to the old...
Norton to Train Hundreds of Teens, Already Shipping Bikes to Japan
11 Jul 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / After moving in on the premises of the old, historic Castle Donington, Norton Motorcycles seems to have enjoyed quite a lucrative period, with production restored and bikes being once more sold in b...
Rocket Skates Are the Electric Motorized Roller Blades That Will Blow Your Mind
10 Jul 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / One of LA-based Acton’s latest products, the Rocket Skates will most likely make you think of the Japanese Manga Air Gear, only these babies are for real. Similar to the Air Treks the Japanese...
Jaguar Land Rover Working on Smart Windscreens, Self-learning Cars, Lasers and Gestures
10 Jul 2014, 13:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It looks like Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is really on its way to defeat the German automakers when it comes to on board tech. After showing us the “transparent hood” prototype and new engin...