Billed as the World’s Slowest Porsche, it’s the tinfoil and bicycle sports car and it’s a thing of real beauty. Just don’t run into anything. As an added bonus, your brain waves are completely safe while ensconced inside this lightning rod. Why go with the goofy hat when you can have a whole damn car! [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Nissan Leaf to Sound Like Cheap Sci-Fi Effect
June 16th, 2010 
Aaron Turpen Well, here you have it. The Chevy Volt promises to have some dumb Star Trek noise associated with it and now Nissan has officially let us know that the soon-to-be-release Leaf will also be going corny Sci-Fi with its noisemaker. This video is of the Leaf driving by and the associated “approach” sound it makes. [...]
Posted in Electrics 
Tags: Buck Rogers, chevrolet volt, Jetsons, Nissan, nissan leaf, Nissan Motors, sci-fi, Science fiction, Star Trek 
1 Comment »OT: Disappearing Car Door
June 15th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Does it get any cooler than this? The video comes from a company called Jatech in California. This system is called the Disappearing Car Door, the Retractable Vehicle Door, or the Rotary Drop Door. It’s been in design for the past ten years, including input from several auto manufacturers and Tier One suppliers. Shown in [...]
The EV Camoflauged for the English Countryside
June 12th, 2010 Aaron Turpen This is awesome. It’s complete with CCTV for stealthy observation of its surrounds and it’s charged via solar panels that unfold when not in stealth mode. Awesome.
Ford’s Realism and the Anger of EV Geeks
June 11th, 2010 Aaron Turpen In an exchange between Ford Motor Co’s CEO Alan Mullaly and Mahalo’s CEO Jason Calacanis at All Things Digital, Ford’s head man said the unthinkable: electric cars will take a while (quite a while) to become market dominant. This immediately created excited commentary amongst the EV geeks around the ‘Net. When the story hit Auto [...]
BMW ActiveHybrid 7 Gets Fat Tax Credit of $900!
June 7th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Hell ya! Just when you thought the $102,500 price tag of the new Beamer would break the bank, the IRS steps in to give you your due with a whopping $900 tax credit after you purchase one of these ActiveHybrid 7s. I’m sure your banker will let you float the check until that tax refund [...]
