Transportation Tech Category - Page 13

How’s this for recycling? General Motors will use some 100 miles of containment booms used in containing the BP Deepwater Horzion oil leak in various ways in their new all-electric Chevy Volt. The plastic from the booms will be complimented with other post-consumer plastic, as well as old rubber from [...]

Military research often brings about the coolest and most awesome displays of technology. We earlier featured the US Navy’s testing of the rail gun. And now, here’s a similar concept that launches aircraft instead of projectiles.

The Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt are probably the most eagerly-anticipated green vehicles stateside. But other manufacturers are touting their own green option. Luxury marque Mecedes Benz, for example has started delivering its F-Cell A-Class in California. What’s best is that your fuel will be free!

If you happen to live in a major city, then you know how difficult it is to get around by car. Just finding a place to park can be a bear of a task, and wending your way through the various twists and turns and traffic jams and one way [...]

The Forza Motorsport 4 announcement introduced an action-packed game trailer, which mostly includes live-action footage. But did Microsoft’s Turn 10 studio inadvertently include unauthorized clips in the trailer?

A chunk of sweet gadget news emerges from right around my old hometown as the first 15 ThinkCity electric vehicles roll off the lines in Elkhart, Indiana and make their way to Indianapolis, where they found their first customer: state government.

The much-anticipated extended-range EV Chevy Volt is hitting General Motors dealerships all around the country. To celebrate the Volt’s launch, GM has decided to auction off the first-ever production Volt, which fetched a hefty price of $225,000.00.

The human mind is not exactly meant for multitasking major tasks, and so you can’t drive and use your mobile phone at the same time. But with a proposed road train system in Europe, users can let their cars do the driving while they do other work.

I think it’s a safe bet that most of us are driving a car that’s not equipped with a stereo that’s packing an iPod dock. And even if we are, our options aren’t the greatest when it comes to getting other MP3 players to work in our cars. But the [...]

Okay, so maybe even the most diehard biker is planning to shelter the ride until springtime rolls around–at least that’s the case here in North America, which is currently staring down the barrel of winter–but when the time comes to pull the bikes out of storage, you might also want [...]