Transportation Tech Category - Page 10

How would you feel about travelling roads across the land down under all for $16? This is just what the Wind Explorer team did with its pod-like wind-powered car.

If you think the Toyota Prius is the most popular hybrid out there. Think again. In Japan, the Prius has actually been overtaken by the Honda Fit in terms of sales (both hybrid and petrol-powered) this January. And it looks like the Fit is going to get a bigger brother [...]

Hybrids and EVs are not the only cars making a positive impact on the environment. In emerging economies, super-small cars are giving more people the opportunity to own cars that are fuel efficient and fun to drive.

Anyone else remember that movie Flash of Genius, about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper back in the sixties, and then spent a whole lot of years trying to prove it was, in fact, his? Well, what a difference fifty-odd years makes, because the windshield wiper may be [...]

Toyota’s plugin hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) Prius has long been in the works as an addition to its Prius line. If you want to get your hands on a plugin Prius before it’s available in the market, you can join Zipcar.

Monster has taken a lot of abuse over the years, usually surrounding its cables and the hefty prices one incurs for picking up a set. But that’s not all they handle, and one of their newer items, the iMotion CarPlay 3000, is definitely an improvement over overpriced HDMI cable. Just [...]

Cars contribute to a big majority of the world’s carbon use. European cities are cracking down on free parking to discourage use of cars in favor of greener modes of transportation.

The folks at Tesla made it clear from the beginning that they were planning to use the proceeds from their Roadster electric sports car to springboard them to new and different models of car. I’m sure you’ve heard of the Model S – the four-door family car they’ve shown. Now, [...]

We earlier wrote about the SARTRE system, in which road trains enable drivers to hand over control to a lead car driven by a professional driver. Volvo has undertaken road tests in European highways, with positive results.

Much like me, you probably don’t think of JVC right away when it comes to GPS units, mostly because you figure they’re too busy doing car stereos and the like. But we’ve got two such examples emerging, the JVC KW-NT50HDT and the JVC KW-NT30HD, and they’ll even pack a surprise [...]