A Trick for Making Batteries Safer Could Also Make EVs Affordable
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisSolidEnergy says its new battery materials store more energy and won’t catch fire.
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Lit Motors launches crowdfunding campaign for its kubo electric cargo scooter
• gizmag.comSan Francisco-based Lit Motors is definitely best-known for its C1 – a self-balancing, fully-enclosed electric motorcycle, that's still in development.
Weird flying car spied in Mountain View
• http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFaddenA secretive little company in Mountain View, California just might be building itself a strange-looking flying car.
Elon Musk Writes A Blog Post On The Stories About Teslas Catching Fire
• businessinsider.comTesla CEO Elon Musk has a new blog post addressing the news of his cars catching on fire.
NHTSA May Mandate That New Cars Broadcast Location, Direction and Speed
• CNS NewsThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will decide whether or not newly manufactured cars include communications technology that constantly broadcasts the car’s location, direction, speed and the number of passengers it is carrying.
How It Feels Going From A Chevy Volt To A Tesla Model S
• www.businessinsider.com, Alex Davies and WeiFor the past week, I've been cruising around in a Chevy Volt. But for one day, I got the privilege of driving a Tesla Model S.
Where this hovering airplane's going, we don't need roads
• http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFaddenSoon enough, flying cars will be winging their way across the skies, taking us off the congested roadway and into the world of Back To The Future 2.
These Airless Tires Keep Rolling After Taking a Bullet
• http://www.wired.com, By Damon LavrincAirless tires have been teased for decades, but in the last few years they’ve inched closer to reality.
Flying Car Company Turns to Crowdfunding to Attract Investors
• Wired.comTerrafugia, the Massachusetts company building a “roadable aircraft” that most of us call a flying car, is turning to crowdfunding to continue development of its driving/flying machine.
1974 Volkswagen Beetle & Camper - road test
• http://www.youtube.com, MaccaIsntDeadWhile it's not a performance road test (like my other videos), I just had to add this review of a bizarre Volkswagen Beetle/Camper combo.
Electric Cars Drive Demand For Cheaper, More Powerful Batteries
• npr.orgIf there's one person you'd expect to have an electric car, it's Venkat Srinivasan. He's in charge of battery research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Elon Musk interested in electric pickup truck and supersonic jet
• dvice.comWhen Elon Musk speaks, the world listens.
Interactive Infographic: What Would A Hyperloop Nation Look Like?
• http://www.popsci.com, By Katie PeekIf Elon Musk's mass-transit plan came to fruition, this is what it would mean for travel.
This Map Shows The Biggest Shipping Ports In The World, ....
• Business InsiderA surprising earlier map from Seth Kadish at Vizual Statistix showed that none of the world's busiest flight paths by passenger volume so much as touch North America or the United States.
EXCLUSIVE: Tesla Is Planning To Make A Pickup Truck
• Business InsiderElectric car company Tesla is planning to make a pickup truck, CEO Elon Musk said yesterday.
Construction of the SeaOrbiter slated for spring 2014
• dvice.comIt has been well over a decade since the SeaOrbiter was first dreamed up
Airport wants drivers to stop dodging the Dulles Toll Road
• Washington PostDrivers hopping on the Dulles Access Highway to avoid paying a toll are going to encounter a beefed up police presence, officials announced this week.
Yamaha Shows Off Snazzy, Impossibly Light Electric Bike Concepts
• Wired.comYamaha is going all-out at this year’s Tokyo Motor Show, bringing a handful of concepts that point the way forward, along with one firmly rooted in the past, just to balance things out.
Graphene Supercapacitors Ready For Electric Vehicle Energy Storage...
• http://www.technologyreview.com,Graphene Supercapacitors Ready For Electric Vehicle Energy Storage, Say Korean Engineers
Italians Condense a Yacht Into a Teeny-Weeny Pod of Luxury
• http://www.wired.com, By Damon LavrincMost of us will never afford the mega-yacht of our dreams, so Italian design firm Lazzarini has taken all the amenities and luxuries of a floating executive pleasure den and distilled them into a compact pod.
Why Not?
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By Eric PetersIn this economy, can anyone seriously doubt that there is a market for simple, reliable – and inexpensive – transportation?
Nissan BladeGlider EV: Half glider, half race car and all awesome
• dvice.comHang gliding in air can be a pretty dangerous activity.
5 interesting facts about electric-bikes
• treehugger.comJohn MacArthur at the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) has publish an interesting presentation on electric bicycles (aka e-bikes),....
Meet the ‘SUV of Motorcycles’ and Its Electric Siblings
• http://www.wired.com, By Damon LavrincCaterham is best known for its stripped-down, bare-bones street cars that keep the legend of Lotus founder Colin Chapman alive.
Toyota Made a 4-Wheeled Segway That You Bond With Like a Horse
• http://www.wired.com, By Damon LavrincJapan’s automakers are faced with a population that cares less about driving and can’t afford to buy — let alone insure and park — a car to begin with. Toyota’s solution?
3D-scanning quadrotor wheel conquers air, land and sea
• dvice.comThere's a new quadrotor out there, one which defies all categorization. All at once, it can fly, roll across the ground and sail along the water.
Driverless cars to invade England by 2015
• http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFadden
The Surprisingly Violent Story Of How The Trucking Industry Killed Fair Prices...
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Alex DaviesThe Surprisingly Violent Story Of How The Trucking Industry Killed Fair Prices For Great Diesel Cars
Zero’s New Electric Motorcycle Boasts Insane Torque, Expandable Range
• http://www.wired.com, By Damon LavrincEveryone crows about horsepower, but torque is what you feel when you nail the gas pedal or twist the throttle. It’s a better measure of acceleration, and for 2014, Zero has cracked the infamous 100 pound-foot mark with its new SR electric motorcycle
Reboot Buggy Gets Back to Its Off-Road Roots
• Wired.comThe modern automobile is more of a rolling living room than a car.
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