Go 1,300 Miles on One Gallon of Gas
For most of us, getting even 50 miles per gallon from a car is a dream. But for the engineering students from Brigham Young University (BYU), anything less than 1,000 mpg is of no value.…
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This Tiny, Self-Sufficient Mobile Home Operates Off-Grid in Any Locale
The Chamfer Home is a mobile home that is ecologically sustainable, stylish and caters to the contemporary mobile lifestyle. This tiny self sufficient, portable living unit is made from eco-friendly materials. It can operate completely…
What is Your Car’s Future Fuel? Audi Says Sugar from E. Coli.
Audi recently invested in Global Bioenergies, a French company that makes synthetic gasoline from sugar, in an attempt to take a huge step in its biofuel plans. The fuel produced from sugar is called bio-isooctane…
Porsche Built Four Electric Cars in 1898… And One Was Just Discovered Untouched
The first car Mr. Ferdinand Porsche ever designed was the “Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, C.2 Phaeton model,” also known as P1. The “Porsche Number One” (P1) consisted of a 287 pound mill and three horsepower. It…
Need a Rental? Massive Vending Machine Dispenses Electric Cars.
Chinese company Kandi Technologies has come up with a new car-sharing scheme which is essentially a car vending machine. In Hangzhou, China, all you have to do is press a couple buttons at one of…
1967 Corvette Sells for $3.85M at $248.6M Antique Car Auction
Four months ago, a 1967 Chevy Corvette L88 set a new auction price record for a Corvette, going for a cool $3.2 million. The record it shattered had upheld for 5 years before the 67’ Vette,…
Wake Up! Google Glass App Wants to Be Your Late Night Co-Pilot
DriveSafe, the new app for Google Glass, is a life saver … literally. A relatively simple idea and easy implementation provides a safety valve for drivers who struggle staying awake behind the wheel. DriveSafe references…
Pick Up Your New Car from the World’s Fastest Automatic Parking System
Autostadt Car Towers has made it into the 2014 Book of Guinness World Records as the “fastest automatic parking system in the world.” AutoStadt (Car City) is a massive car museum adjacent to the Volkswagen Factory…
Land, Air and Water Electric Vehicle Industry Growing to $350B
The Electric Vehicle industry is shaping up to become a $350 billion a year market by 2023, according to a December 2013 report by Dr. Peter Harrop, Raghu Das and IDTechEx. The industry will produce some…
Ford VP Admits Your Car is Spying on You
At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Ford Global VP/Marketing and Sales, Jim Farley, said, “We [Ford] know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you’re doing it. We have GPS…
