Transportation Tech Category - Page 8

We all know the dangers of texting while driving. Even talking while driving isn’t exactly the safest thing, and even with hands-free car kits and the like, can still be a difficult proposition. But the folks out at Sprint think they’ve got an answer in the form of a new [...]

Green technology is as much about finding more efficient ways to utilize existing technologies as it is about finding alternatives (like electric, hybrid and alternative fuels). For one, Mercedez-Benz has designed lean-burning engines, but says US fuels are not clean enough.

Perhaps the most backhanded guarantee ever comes to us from the folks out at Renault, who have introduced their “Get You Home” guarantee, but when you look further at the guarantee, you’ll discover that it really doesn’t cover you as much as you might think.

We haven’t had a lot of electric car news of late, so it’s good to catch word of the big event that GE’s launching on to promote its line of electric car chargers, the WattStation. They’re calling it the EV Experience Tour, and if you wanted to get a charger [...]

Tesla is facing increased competition in the electric car space in North America this year as he Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt are slowly starting to show up here. Just on cue, Tesla has announced some preliminary pricing and availability information regarding the Model S – that’s their four-door sedan offering. The Model S [...]

The Chevy Volt has been one of the most-anticipated EVs due to its design and technology. The Volt got a US release late 2010 with a $42,000 price. Now, the Volt is seeing a European debut.

The United States hasn’t exactly been a huge market for electric vehicles. Between the “happy motoring” past which evokes images of fuel-sucking muscle cars roaring into the night or a gigantic 1953 Ford Colossus ambling down the road on a sunny Sunday at a whopping 3.1 miles per gallon, and [...]

If you love driving and playing arcade games, this is probably the game for you. Gameloft, in cooperation with Audi, is giving away an actual Audi A3 as a prize for playing its latest iOS game.

Is that a collective sigh we hear from Mitsubishi fans all over the world? If it is, they’re probably sad to see the famed Mitsubishi Evo series reach its end-of-life after a 20-year run.

We were all there once–in that dark time between elementary school and high school commonly referred to as middle school. That horrible period in everyone’s lives in which cliques were formed, lifelong friendships were shattered, and nobody could stop teasing anybody long enough to focus on what they were actually [...]