Transportation Tech Category - Page 6

We earlier wrote about the maiden flight of Solar Impulse, a manned four-engine, 3,500 lbs plane that runs on solar power. Just recently, the Solar Impulse completed its first international flight.

Augmented reality has found its niche in TV shows and some video games. But with a new in-car GPS unit from Pioneer, augmented reality might find a place in auto navigation.

Car ownership can be expensive, and not everyone has the option of buying or leasing a car full-time. Zipcar makes it easy to time-share cars among members. You can actually reserve and find a car using your mobile phone. The service is now open to Android users.

It’s not every day that a concept car goes into wide release. In fact, that really almost never happens. But sometimes it does, and when that concept happens to be the Jaguar C-X75, then that’s two reasons to pay attention.

For those of you who think that all electric cars are still just basically glorified golf carts that handle and drive accordingly, you’ll likely be pretty surprised to hear that one of them just broke a record today. The Peugeot EX1 electric vehicle just managed to clear 85.9 miles an [...]

Eventually, in the grand future world Toyota and WiTricity are envisioning, we’ll all just be able to set stuff down in a room and let the mysterious forces of wireless chargers pump juice back into them while we sleep. And this will even apply to our electric vehicles, or so [...]

If you live in Los Angeles and you’ve been meaning to get in on the electric vehicle craze, then we’ve got some good news for you today. But you’re going to have to move quickly to take advantage of said good news, because it’s a bit on the transient side.

Spark plugs have part of petrol-fed internal combustion engines for the longest time. But as automotive engineers look into greneener vehicles, will lasers help solve the puzzle of inefficient fuel burn?

For those of you looking forward to the launch of the Fisker Karma line of electric vehicles, you’ve been waiting for a spectacularly long time. Since November of 2009, in all honesty, so this particular bit of news will strike you as extremely good. The Fisker Karma will start shipping [...]

The current second-largest car maker in Japan, Nissan, has reportedly found some troubles with its new line of Leaf electric vehicles, and the problems are coming from some pretty strange sources.