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Jan 14, 2013
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VIA Motors presents in Detroit at #NAIAS

The presentation is clunky and badly choreographed, but Bob Lutz manages to get the point across:

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Aug 2, 2012
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Smart Car Chase in Houston

Car chase in Houston, Texas. Texas DPS was chasing a Smart car. Notice that during the chase, other vehicles were passing the Smart car and officer.

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Apr 14, 2012
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Electric Drift Car Design Competition Announced

Quimera Responsible Racing is a Joint Venture between the company Quimera, the International Motor Sport Association (IMSA) and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), launching the next generation of sustainable motor sport, a global non-fossil fuel based championship, which will take place by the end of 2013. This partnership is expected to develop further by empowering R&D …
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Sep 18, 2011
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Ford Leaps Ahead Into.. the Bicycle Market?

The world is not as it should be.  Things are upside down, backwards, and definitely off-kilter.  How do we know this?  Is it because the economy is as shaky as a 90-year old on a first date?  Or because our president seems to think that giving speeches is all that’s required to get people employment?  …
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Sep 17, 2010
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Automotive X Prize Winners Announced

from FutureCars.com In brief: The long-anticipated results for the Progressive Automotive X Prize competition have been announced. The word At a ceremony in Washington, D.C., X Prize officials announced the winners of the hotly-contested Side-by-Side class as well as the foregone conclusion for the Mainstream category plus the fun Tandem category. Mainstream The Mainstream category …
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Sep 16, 2010
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The Beijing Straddle Bus?

Here’s another of those ideas that’s great on paper, but will never survive in the real world.  The Beijing Straddle Bus is a “super bus” that straddles over the top of roadways, moving up to 1,400 people at a time.  This concept of urban public transportation comes from the Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment (they …
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