While some of us are watching for production models of the plug-in versions of the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape, and others are following the news of Subaru’s recently announced EV offering, the R1e, many people still see electric and solar-electric cars as something limited to the garages of hobbyists and backyard tinkers, rather than [...]
According to TGDaily, Tesla Motors has the regulatory go ahead to sell the Tesla roadster — P1 if you’re code-name in the know. The first one will go to the company chairman, then the 600 folks who pre-ordered will get theirs over the next few months. The company’s production goal is 40 cars a week [...]
In the eye candy department, visit AutoblogGreen’s post Detroit 2008: More photos than you can shake a stick at, to take your own tour of the Detroit Auto Show. (Haven’t had enough, search for “Detroit auto show” on flickr and you’ll get 22,524 pictures past and present. Don’t believe me? Click here.)
Smart Dashboard
As if our [...]
Last week I had occasion to spend some time researching the CLEVER (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport.) It’s a fascinating two-seater fueled by compressed natural gas being developed by nine European partners (with BMW in the mix) at the University of Bath. The specs are respectable. It’ll make 60 mph and accelerate from [...]
Real life demands that updates here will now be posted on Tuesday and Thursdays. I hope that’s going to allow me to collect interesting items and put together lengthier updates with more digest-type content so you’ll still be getting pointed in a lot of directions, but with fewer actual postings. I’m working on getting that [...]
In all the slew of droolable techy goodness to come out of the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Microsoft slipped in an upgrade of the Ford Sync system powered by the Auto 3.0 operating system. Microsoft has made it clear that there’s no reason why you can’t have a fully functional PC sitting in your [...]
These days unless your car has a really smart box collecting and dispensing some kind of data from the dashboard, why bother? Big whoop if you have a radio or even a CD changer. You need data, Dude. How the heck are you going to drive without data? That’s right, the information-age car has to [...]
Last Friday Engadget reported on eight Goodyear branded GPS units expected to show up at CES. They’ll be produced by a company in New York called NCC, which stands for The National Christmas Company. Yep, got their start in Christmas lights but in recent years have been making stuff for Westinghouse and Stanley. The units [...]
According to ZAP, purveyor of juicy electric car funkiness, if you own a ZAP Xebra and drive it in London, it pretty much pays for itself within a year. The figures speak for themselves. It costs $83 a day to take a gasoline car into London as opposed to $1.54 a day for a ZAP. [...]
Delphi Debuts
According to this press release, Delphi Corporation will have a nice showcasing of mobile electronics and transportation systems at the 9th Auto Expo in New Delhi scheduled for January 11-20. Among the items on display, look for a GPS system with dual view and produced for enhanced vehicle security.
BMW M3
Word on the web has [...]