It’s no secret I’m more of a fan of diesels than EVs when it comes to the green fight. Anyone’s who’s had some time behind the wheel of a newer oil-burner knows these things are heads and shoulders above the driving death featured in hybrids everywhere. Then Honda goes and shows off this little sucker [...]
And by crap loads, I mean $465 million of our precious dollars. The loan from the federal government is part of a larger series of loans totaling $8 billion for new fuel-efficient vehicle research. Tesla plans to use the coin to develop the new Model S and the car’s battery packs, and if you think [...]
Speaking of plug-ins, RUF unveiled its shot at an electric Porsche with its eRUF Greenster. First, let’s just say the more shout outs to vintage Targa b-pillars, the better. Sweet brushed aluminum accents aside, the Greenster boasts an electric drivetrain worked up by the tech gurus at Siemens Corporate Technology. According to RUF, the rig [...]
Mitsubishi pulled the sheets off of its metal at the Geneva Motor Show yesterday, including a pair of i MiEVs. Those include a prototype version of the mid-engine EV that should be pretty close to the production car due in European Dealers as soon as next year. The company also introduced a new “sport” version [...]
You may have heard of Mission Motors before. They’re the kids hell bent on making the world’s fastest, most capable electric sports bike, and at this point it looks like they’re doing a pretty damn good job. The company unveiled the Mission One at the Today’s Technology, Entertainment and Design show in Long Beach, California. [...]
Looks like even Jezza’s nay-saying about the Tesla Roadster’s on-track performance can’t keep the car’s buzz from growing. Our good oil barons friends over in the Middle East can’t get enough of the battery-powered ride – so much so that many have gone so far as to import their own since the car isn’t legally [...]
I’m fully confident that as long as there are two sentient beings on this planet with comparable vehicles, some form of motorsport will exist. No matter how expensive fuel gets or how hard green regs come down us all, man will race man (or woman). It’s just the way of things. That said, if the [...]
Usually, we try to keep away from the snore-fest tech out there, especially if it has anything to do with charging batteries. For one, I’m too dim to fully comprehend the mechanicals at play. For another, nobody really cares. But this, Fiends, is too awesome to skip over. Some enterprising scientist over a decade ago [...]
The boys and girls at Tesla have been plinking away on a new variant of the company’s Roadster for awhile now. What’d they come up with? A “sport” variant. Thanks to 284 horsepower (40 over stock) and super-sticky Yokohama A048 tires, the car’s 0-60 time gets clipped by .2 seconds, bringing the grand total to [...]
Yes! If there’s one thing we totally, 100% love, it’s nuclear powered cars! And this here Caddy WTF (aka World Thorium Fuel) concept is simply atomic. Say huh? Yeah, well, it’s designed to run on thorium, a radioactive fuel that will power the World Thorium Fuel’s batteries for 100 years. That’s right, no refueling until 2109. [...]
