John Voelcker Jul 2, 2017 Follow John Add to circle Among electric-car owners and advocates, tiny British sports-car maker Aston Martin has become a company to watch. That's largely due to its CEO for the last few years, Andy Palmer, who had previously led product development at Nissa...
You’re about to depart on your daily commute, with a million things on your to-do list once you get to work. If only you could work in your car. While we aren’t there yet, the accelerated pace at which automakers and tech companies are introducing vehicle prototypes and automated driv...
The updated VW Golf GTE was recently reviewed by the Fully Charged’s Jonny Smith . Available with a choice of two new trim levels, the Golf GTE is priced from £30,635 for the entry-level, while the Golf GTE Advance starts at £32,135 before the Plug-In Car Grant. The VW Golf GTE, with ...
Bosch recently unveiled their anti-lock braking system to increase rider safety. Based on their research of 500 cycling accidents, Bosch believe a quarter of pedelec accidents could be avoided with their anti-lock braking system, which increases stability through a combination of ABS ...
U Kentucky CAER receives $1M for carbon fiber research 2 July 2017 The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received a $1 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to continue their research in developing low-cost, high-strength carbon fiber. The center...
U Minn seeking to license new process to produce isoprene from biomass at high yield; green tires 2 July 2017 Researchers from the University of Minnesota, with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have developed a new high-yield process—a hybrid of fermentation foll...
Transportation power sources that would rival combustion engines in reliability, consumer acceptance, and range made Gas2 readers take notice this week— and the manufacturers who continue to keep a foot firmly placed in 20th century combustion engines caught a laugh or two from our au...
A recent mobility study in the Netherlands saw the residents of 76 towns and cities cycling more than driving for short trips of up to 7.5km (4.6 miles). For a cycling nation this may not be entirely surprising, nor the fact that the Dutch continue to look at ways of increasing the pe...
Teresa Elinor and her son Flynn (14), who has Angelman Syndrome, completed the London to Brighton Ride earlier this month on their power-assisted Boxer Breeze cargo bike. The Boxer Breeze ‘wheelchair tandem’ is a large, UK designed and built, cargo bike especially built to take a full...
John Voelcker Jun 29, 2017 Follow John Add to circle 2019 BMW 3-Series, portion of spy shot from Motor Authority [Image via S. Balfauf/SB-Medien] Enlarge Photo In August 2016, when the first U.S. ads for the BMW 330e plug-in hybrid sport sedan hit the airwaves, they carried an interes...
BMW i3 electric car charging in 'EV Charging Only' space, Santa Clarita, CA [photo: Steve J. Myung] Enlarge Photo As the demand for electric cars grows, utility companies are considering their effect on local power grids—both positive and negative. Recently, California's PG&E and BMW ...
BMW’s spring announcement on the next-generation battery for the BMW i3 gaining up to 50-percent more range will come through a new battery pack holding 50-percent more kilowatt hours. BMW is releasing more details on changes coming up in the 2017 BMW i3. Buyers will have three option...
Daimler and LBBW successfully utilize blockchain technology for launch of corporate Schuldschein 28 June 2017 Daimler AG and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) for the first time have jointly used blockchain technology to execute a financial transaction. Daimler and LBBW successfully...
