I saw this photo and laughed at the repair job and then noted the Daimler Smart Car in the window reflection. I guarantee that the driver of that car was in no way involved in this repair work. The multi-colored Japanese(looking) sedan to its (reflected) right? That’s probably the repair guy. He’s likely busy right [...]
These were sent to me via email with no context or information, so I don’t have any kind of back story here. Very cool, though! A Prius made classic! Looks like he upgraded to the Deluxe Full Boot model.
The Dragonfly is a personal flying machine with a slightly different bent. It’s a rocket-propelled helicopter with an open cockpit design ala Buck Rogers or the Million Dollar Man. The machine itself, as far as looks go, is pure 1970s sci-fi. It’s mechanics? Well.. they probably are too. It’s a single-seat helicopter whose propulsion is [...]
Image via Wikipedia This argument has surfaced yet again and yet again it’s going the rounds on the blogosphere. When these doom-and-gloom stories popped up at almost exactly this time last year, I fell for them. The problem is, this same basic scary report pops up and the same stupid arguments are pitched by the [...]
Image via Wikipedia It never ceases to amaze me how bad some companies are at public relations (PR). They send out press releases, maybe give an interview once in a while, but are otherwise clueless as to how to deal with people of the press. I see this constantly, so it’s not just the odd [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How nice. The U.S. Senate couldn’t get an amendment through to add an exemption to the new banking and consumer loan regulations (as did the House of Representatives), so instead they cast a “nobody will notice this” vote later to allow their negotiators to include it when the bill is reconciled with the House version. [...]
I was interviewed on National Public Radio’s show All Things Considered by host Michele Norris regarding green trucking (they found me through my other site GreenBigTruck.com). You can listen to that interview, recorded at this link, or live on tonight’s airing of All Things Considered on your local NPR station.
I’m not really a fan of GPS units. I’ve never actually owned one of those in-car navigation ones, even when I was a truck driver. I just don’t really like the things. I’m not sure why, but it’s probably because I know how to read maps (and use Google Maps when I need to). Even [...]
With my regular influx of news, press releases, and reading around the Web, I am often presented with concept vehicles. Some of them are really stupidly goofy and unrealistic, some are banal, others are just more of the usual, and some are just, well, awesome. It’s not often that really cool motorcycles come my way [...]
Well, the clowns in the Senate are working hard to make sure that you end up with some kind of do-gooder climate b.s. legislation whether you want it or not. With Cap and Trade all but scuttled, the creativity of our wealth redistribution experts in Washington knows no bounds. This time, they realize that in [...]
I was once a truck driver. A trucker. Long hauler. Road dog. Big rig driver. All that. At that time, the use of GPS units in trucks was just becoming popular as their price continued to drop. Most drivers, however, knew that these little electronic gizmos have one huge, fatal flaw when it comes to [...]
The buzz so far this week has been about the new EPA (Ever Pretending Aristocrats) and NHTSA (The Roadblockers) standards, which were signed into being Monday. The new rules set emissions standards for both vehicle engine emissions and for the emissions of a manufacturer’s entire fleet (called the CAFE standard). The new rules also set [...]
Next week, I will be going down* to the Mile High City for the Denver Auto Show and to meet with some EV friends in the Denver area for interviews, photo ops, and whatnot. One of them will be driving Pike’s Peak this year on her motorcycle. Also planning to do the Pike’s Peak challenge [...]
The big news across the blogosphere today was Ford teaming up with Microsoft to install Microsoft Hohm into their electric cars in order to optimize charging with the household circuits and smart grid. Everyone from FutureCars to AutoBlogGreen to Geekopedia reported this. Not surprising, since Ford sent out a huge press release on it. People [...]
Chalk this up to being both funny as hell and simultaneously environmentally friendly. A bank robber in Washington (state, not D.C. – bank robbery takes a different form in D.C., usually surrounding that giant bank called the Fed, but I digress) entered a Key Bank in Woodinville, produced a pistol, and proceeded to go fully [...]
I wrote a feature for FutureCars.com on the INGOCAR from Valentin Technologies. The car itself is nice, but not really anything extra-special. What is special is the underlying platform, which has been in development for decades. Ingo Valentin, the man behind the breakthrough, is a mechanical engineer specializing in hydraulics. His chassis/drive train is the [...]
According to some study by some people who have too much time on their hands and access to government grants, if you’re into eco-living or generally being “green,” you’re likely an ass. At least this was done with Canadian grants instead of ours. I never did trust those Canooks. They think curling is a real [...]
This is a little off-topic, but that’s never stopped me before. Right? Wired’s Autopia published a great post titled 6 Cars So Alluring They’re in an Art Museum. Wow, these are some awesome piece of automotive art. Here’s my favorite. Go check out the list and tell me yours.
I saw a story in Wired’s Autopia about General Motors’ latest advances in designing heads up displays (HUD) for the automobile. The idea isn’t new (they’ve been on it for 22 years and aren’t alone) and is still just waiting for its time to come. The technology is all basically there, it’s a matter of [...]
Holy crap, this is an awesome machine. I don’t know the background on it (yet), other than it’s in Idaho and has got to be the coolest 4×4 I’ve ever seen in operation. @$%@$# bad@#$%@%@#$ bubba! This is some serious engineering right here. Thanks to Judie for the link!
Not much of a post today, just wanted to quickly point you towards an excellent article that explains the basics of aerodynamics and their impacts. The title of this post is also the title of the article by David Herron, which you can read on Examiner by clicking here.
I read an interesting, but narrow piece by Martin LaMonica at CNet News titled Will ‘fun factor’ or mandates drive electric car sales? and thought that the presentation he gave was compelling, but too constricted by old thinking. I’d considered leaving a comment there, but thought that this deserved a lot more consideration than just [...]
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