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is sponsoring, I spoke with BMW’s Head of Marketing for the BMW i series, Uwe Dreher about the future of sustainable cars and transportation. Megacities are the market they’re most interested in serving, a massive challenge for any automaker. How to sell cars to the people who need th...
Thinmint’s 900 hp electric Honda S2000 is impressive enough that he was asked to give a TEDx talk about the project, which – once finished – promises to be one sikk ride. Even if it weighs a bit more than the stock S2000 did before he got started, the project car should be capable of ...
For one, compressed air motors don’t make as much power or torque as car owners are used to, meaning very low top speeds, often around just 40 mph. That is barely enough for city driving, and highway cruising is totally out of the question. It can also take many hours to fill the tank...
Can the power of social media literally propel a car halfway across the country? That’s the hope of a group of high school students who converted a Karmann Ghia into an EV, with plans to drive it from Kansas City to Washington D.C., but with a twist. The car will only go when it gets ...
The electric race cars are estimated to have enough juice for up to 30 minutes of racing, though the races themselves are an hour long, necessitating a car swap halfway through. So far Los Angeles , Rome , London , Miami, Beijing, Bueno Aires, Putrajaya, and Rio de Janeiro have all be...
Compressed natural gas, or CNG, may be the fuel of the future here in America. Vast untapped resources of CNG are only now being exploited, and automakers are responding with a limited offering of CNG vehicles. Spy shots suggest that GM could be prepping a CNG-powered Chevy Impala for...
You are wrong about electric cars not being the greenest. Studies show a gas car uses 23% of it’s lifetime pollution during construction, while an electric car due to rare earths uses 36%. They meet at the 40,000 mile mark, where after 40,000 miles the electric car pulls ahead and bec...
In their recent SEC filing, on page 38 outlining future plans, Tesla discusses what factors may affect the adoption of electric vehicles. Specifically, the filing says that the ability to “…rapidly swap out the Model S battery pack, and the development of specialized public facilities...
