Kite Cars: Cool Wind, Light Vehicle Concept to Spark Creativity

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The super “Wind Light Vehicle” kite powered concept car via Yanko Design, not only looks fun, it functions for three methods of locomotion. The giant wing on the hood can swing and sail upright so the vehicle becomes like a windsurfing board, or it can become detached for some cool kite wind action. Then there’s [...]

Hawaii Endorses Better Place for Electric Cars

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Better Place and Hawaii have joined forces. This week the State of Hawaii and the Hawaiian Electric Company endorsed a plan to build a new renewable transportation system based on electric vehicles with swappable batteries and a “smart” battery recharging network. The Better Place plan solves the current problem with electric cars, which is slow battery recharging as well as [...]

Will Cool Cars of the Future be Made of Buckypaper? It's Five Hundred Times Stronger than Steel (and Ten Times Lighter)

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Buckypaper is a material composed of carbon nanotubes. It is 10 times lighter and over 500 times stronger than steel and the “buckytubes” that make it up are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. It is predicted by futurists that this material will storm the auto and aviation industries. One of the best ways [...]