Topic: CARS - on April 15, 2008 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
That Blissfully Quiet Electric Car Might Just Kill You
From the department of unintended consequences, we now have a bill before Congress that would address one of the biggest problems with electric cars: They're too quiet.
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Topic: CARS - on March 18, 2008 at 2:34:00 PM CET
100-year-old model for electric car coming back
It was good enough for John D. Rockefeller Jr.
To promote itself, Detroit Electric--a new joint venture between Zap and China's Youngman Automotive Group--plan to release a limited number of cars based around the Detroit Electric, an electric car produced by the Anderson Electric Car Co. in the early part of the 20th century.
Anderson produced various models of the Detroit Electric from 1907 to 1939. Customers included Henry Ford and Rockefeller. It was also featured on a stamp. TV host Jay Leno has some of the cars in his collection.
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Topic: CARS - on January 17, 2008 at 12:48:00 PM CET
Windshield
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Topic: CARS - on January 2, 2008 at 12:12:00 PM CET
The Electric Car Conspiracy ... that never was
It's almost two years since the debut of Chris Paine's documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? The movie has been a success in US theatres and often comprises one half of a double bill with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. But what the success of the movie tells us is more alarming than any conspiracy it purports to unveil: a disdain for engineering, for technological innovation, and most of all a disdain for us, the consumers.
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Topic: CARS - on December 11, 2007 at 12:56:00 PM CET
MV Agusta's Limited-Edition Superbike Is One Sexy Beast
You are looking at the Steve Austin of motorcycles: better, stronger, faster. Claudio Castiglioni, managing director of Italian manufacturer MV Agusta, was apparently bored with his company's already mind-boggling bikes — so he commissioned a special model just for himself. Then he approved 99 more for the lucky few who can shell out $128,000 for certain death. Dubbed the F4CC (CC for Claudio Castiglioni), it's as close as a civilian will ever get to a full-blown Superbike racer. It's actually faster.
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Topic: CARS - on December 6, 2007 at 11:30:00 AM CET
Thief uses flower pot to steal Porsche
Reversing out of his open garage, the car's owner heard a scraping noise and got out to investigate, police in the western city of Bonn said Tuesday.
As the 56-year-old was bending down to remove a flower pot jammed against a tire, a man pushed him aside, leaped behind the wheel and drove off in his grey Porsche 997 Turbo.
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Topic: CARS - on December 6, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CET
New Device Stops Cars Instantly in their Tracks
A new device may make car chases a thing of the past.
Eureka Aerospace , a company from Pasadena, Calif., had developed a device that shoots a microwave beam at a speeding car, frying its electrical system and stopping the car dead in its tracks.
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Topic: CARS - on November 26, 2007 at 10:18:00 AM CET
Bei Tempo 50 knödelt der Pneu
Um Autofahrer zur Einhaltung der Höchstgeschwindigkeit zu ermuntern, hat die zentraljapanische Provinz Aichi einen Tunnel mit besonderem Straßenbelag versehen. Bei Erreichen der Höchstgeschwindigkeit erzeugen die Reifen eine Melodie.
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Topic: CARS - on November 21, 2007 at 10:41:00 AM CET
Moller Flying Car May Be Grounded Permanently
For decades, futurists have predicted (and science fiction types have just assumed) that we're on the verge of having flying cars. It's pretty much the standard prediction. And yet, despite years of hype, the idea of the flying car has always been the technology of tomorrow.
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Topic: CARS - on November 19, 2007 at 11:21:00 AM CET
Volga-Cayenne
18 Phоtо
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Topic: CARS - on November 16, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CET
German cars 'least green in EU'
Most cars sold in Europe are becoming more fuel-efficient, but German carmakers are going backwards according to a study by a green pressure group.
Transport and Environment (T&E) says an average new German car produced more CO2 per kilometre in 2006 than in 2005.
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Topic: CARS - on November 11, 2007 at 11:25:00 AM CET
Is a Flying Car About to Take Off?
It might sound like a scene straight out of the Jetsons, but a Massachusetts company is developing a small airplane that can land, fold up its wings and drive down the highway.
Terrafugia Inc., a company founded three years ago by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), is in the process of building a prototype of The Transition, a 19-foot, two-seater the company describes as a roadable light-sport aircraft. And it's focused on building something that can take to the roads as easily as it takes to the skies.
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