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Car hacks / Mods Compressed Natural Gas It's Not Stock 

CNGci Introduces 500L Tanks for 2012

December 4, 2011 Jo Borrás 1 Comment aluminum, CARB, carbon, Carbon Emissions, CNG, cng cylinders international, cngci, compressed natural gas, conversion, cost, costs, cylinder, Emissions, EPA, fiber, fleet, fleets, gas, high-capacity, natural gas, news, ngv, propane, range, shipping costs, SULEV, tank, transportation costs, trucking, tulev, type 3, ULEV

Thinking about a DIY conversion to get your guzzler of petroleum and on to CNG? You’ll need a tank to

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Fuel Economy 

Kidding Around, at 2000 MPG

June 26, 2011 Jo Borrás 6 Comments 2000 mpg, carbon, composite, composites, England, fiber, fiberglas, Fuel economy, kid, kids, light, lightweight, mileage, mileage record, mpg, mpg record, Sam Chapman-Hill, student, students, UK, ultralight, universities, university, world record

You read that right:  two-thousand miles per gallon … and (in case you missed the reference), these 2000 mpg vehicles

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Car hacks / Mods It's Not Stock 

Recycled Hawtness: 1972 Mini + Saturn Adds up to Awesome

May 14, 2011 Jo Borrás 2 Comments build, carbon, cool, cooper, custom, diy, fabricated, fiber, forum, Fuel economy, gas, GM, hawt, hawtness, hot, mini, minicopoper, new, Opel, original, recycled, recycling, rod, Saturn, stance works, thread, Vauxhall, vintage, Works

As we’ve said before (again and again), the greenest car is the one that’s already been built.  Still, this build

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Car hacks / Mods 

Recycled Hawtness: Classic Porsche 911 Resto-mod by Singer

March 24, 2011 Jo Borrás 3 Comments 901, 911, 964, 993, air-cooled, aluminum, california, carbon, classic, designs, diy, fiber, hawtness, new, PCA, Porsche, recycle, recycled, reuse, Singer, transportation, tuner

“Wow” is not the kind of thing people usually get paid to write.  “Wow” is the kind of thing you

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Batteries Electric Vehicles 

Volvo Gets Clever: Body Panels as Batteries

September 27, 2010 Jo Borrás 9 Comments Batteries, battery, carbon, door, electric, electric vehicles, EV, EVs, fiber, hood, lightweight, new, New Technology, research, roof, Science, solar, trunk, Volvo

They say that when you see a truly great idea, it’s often so obvious that your first reaction is “Why

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Conventional Cars Motorsports 

Lighter Lamborghinis on the Horizon

September 15, 2010 Christopher DeMorro 1 Comment acceleration, carbon, ferrari, fiber, handling, lambo, lamborghini, light, lighter, Speed, top, weight

In the world of exotic sports cars, Ferrari and Lamborghini have been engaged in a never-ending feud over performance. Lamborghini

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Auto industry Fuel Economy 

Is a 1,000 Pound, Four-Person Car Feasible?

August 20, 2010 Christopher DeMorro 10 Comments car, carbon, design, feather, fiber, light, lightweight, Los Angeles Auto Show, studio, weight

When the 1908 Ford Model T model debuted, it tipped the scales at around 1,450 pounds. That ain’t much, considering

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Electric Vehicles 

NLV Quant Electric Car Closing In On Running Prototype

February 24, 2010 Christopher DeMorro 0 Comments car, carbon, Charging, chassis, electric, fiber, Film, Koenigsegg, nlv, panels, passive, quant, solar, vehicle

Last year I was a little taken aback when Koenigsegg teamed up with NLV Solar to showcase the Quant at

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Offbeat 

New Study Suggests Humans Could Run As Fast As 40 MPH

January 26, 2010 Christopher DeMorro 26 Comments body, bolt, dash, fiber, force, human, limit, muscle, record, Speed, usain

[social_buttons] Rarely do we take the time to stop and consider just how complex and amazing our bodies are. It

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