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We’ve covered Russia’s CNG/electric hybrid YoMobile before (here, and here) but now the cars are getting really – well, REAL. To show off just how real things are getting, the keys to a fully functional “pre-production” model were recently haded over to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (the World’s Craziest Bad***) for a quick spin [...]
Europe is already paying upwards of $8.00 a gallon for fuel, so every penny (or Euro) counts. So a proposal to raise the tax on diesel fuel to gas-like levels has some people up rightly up in arms. The European Commissions is proposing taxing vehicles based on their CO2 output, which I think is ridiculous. [...]
An independent UK study recently showed that increasing the overall length of commercial trucks could dramatically reduce overall emissions without compromising safety. The study (available for download here) showed that a 2 meter increase in maximum length (without an increase in maximum weight) could “increase capacity for haulers transporting lightweight goods by up to 13%, [...]
The only thing today’s pirates have in common with the swashbucklers of yesteryear is their sheer brutality. So what better way to fight pirates but with a superfast unmanned boat that is 400% more fuel efficient than similar vessels. The aptly-named Piranha was developed by Ohio-based Zyvex Technologies. Wearing a high-tech carbon fiber shell utilizing [...]
Late last year, DBM Energy drove an all-electric Audi A2 372 miles on a single charge, a potential game changer in the EV world. But nobody believed them until ze Germans ran a battery of tests proving the claims. DBM Energy raised a lot of eyebrows last year when, over the course of seven hours, [...]
In an ideal universe, I would be writing a post about Scania’s new, “Euro6″ family of 13.0 liter turbodiesel engines on Friday the 13th, but it looks like Wednesday the 13th is as good as it’s gonna get for this one. That’s not a bad thing, though – the new 440 and 480 hp Scanias [...]
When we last heard from TREXA, their concept for an all-purpose undercarriage for a variety of different electric vehicles was just some CGI sketches. Now though, its an actual working prototype of their patent-pending Enertube system. The TREXA platform has been designed to be scaled up or down for various vehicular applications, and the heart [...]
Electric vehicles are the new frontier in racing, and Chip Yates is among the leaders of electric motorcycle racing. Over the weekend, Yates went 190.6 mph on his Swigz Pro Racing electric motorcycle. The Mojave Mile is a racing event where speed demons take their vehicles and try to go as fast as possible from [...]
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