Automotive

Cleaner and Meaner ATVs

Supercar, futuristic, luxury kidde, amphibious, tank-like, urbanized, hipster, and self inflating: these are just a few of the ATV (All-Terrain Vehicles) styles available these days. A small but growing number of ATV manufacturers have begun…

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Is the CAT 797F Too Expensive? $5 Million, Options Extra.

The Caterpillar 797 is a series of off-highway, ultra class, two-axle, mechanical powertrain haul trucks developed and manufactured in the United States by Caterpillar Inc. specifically for high production mining and heavy-duty construction applications world-wide.…

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Hiriko: The Future of Personal Mobility

The experience of inhaling acrid black smoke and noxious gases emitted from the tailpipes of automobile or truck gasoline engines may soon be a distant memory. And it may not be too far-fetched to anticipate…

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Aspid GT-21 Invictus, Pure Cutting Edge Design

Spanish automaker IFR Automotive S.L., founded in 2003 by Ignacio Fernandex Rodriguez, is based in Catalonia and its latest offering, Aspid GT-21 Invictus is named after a viper species native to the region. The Aspid…

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Stealth Bomber Electric Bikes Ready to Go

Stealth Bomber Electric Bikes (SBEBs) with a maximum speed of 45 mph and a range of 30 miles, meet motocross and mountain biking in the middle. Without time to load a pickup with a motocross…

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We will all be in Driverless Cars by 2020?

The driverless car was the brainchild of the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, Sebastian Thrun. Thrun was deeply affected by the death of a childhood friend in…

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The Lightest Electric Vehicle Ever Made

Boosted Boards is re-imagining the long skateboard as an electric powered portable vehicle that will revolutionize the way people travel when commuting to work, sightseeing, having fun, or traveling short to medium range distances. According to the…

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Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force Concept is Mean, Clean and Green

As mentioned earlier this month, the Mercedes-Benz Ener-G-Force concept was built as an entrant for this year’s LA Design Challenge. The radical concept, visualizing what a rugged vehicle will look like more than a decade in the…

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BMW i8 Concept, Super Car Plug-In Hybrid

The BMW i8, first introduced as the BMW Concept Vision Efficient Dynamics, is a plug-in hybrid under development by BMW. The initial concept car was unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, and the BMW i8 concept car destined for production was unveiled at…

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VW’s 260-MPG Diesel Hybrid Concept May Actually Get Built

Volkswagen’s latest eye-catching creation, the ultra-efficient diesel-hybrid XL1, debuted at the Qatar Auto Show, immediately garnering attention both for its looks and its specs. But according to German publication Automobilwoche (warning: German), VW actually intends to bring…

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