Grab Bag of Automotive Links Today

Grab bag time, good people . . .
Engadget is reporting that Chrysler is adding in-car WIFI to the 2009 fleet. Details are sketchy, but it seems the models will have “cellular data access” as an option, but set to become a standard feature.
Tesla news from the same site includes a story early in the month […]

IntergalacticHydrogen.com: A World of Alternative Fuel

When a friend of mine told me I needed to check out IntergalacticHydrogen.com, I laughed. I figured sci fi site, right? More like sci fact, and a harbinger of alternative fuel focused production shops to come. Or, as the site copy puts it, “As a research, development and deployment company, we can engineer the […]

The SuperCars.org - Smart, Sweet, Fast

TheSuperCars.org uses the tagline “Smart, Sweet, and Fast” to describe the cars they honor on their website, but those words are applicable to the site itself as well.
Smart: The website puts you behind the wheel, as it were, from the first click, with feature articles right there on the front page, highlighted by pictures […]

Geyser Self-Cleaning Windshield

As always a number of interesting prototypes showed up at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show including a sleek, futuristic beauty from Italian designer Leonardo Fioravanti (of Pininfarina fame.) This five-door, four-seater, however, is being looked at not so much for what it offers as for what it doesn’t have — windshield wipers.
Thanks to an innovative […]

Green is Blue and Geneva is Cool

Since blogging didn’t happen last week due to that nasty complication called “life,” I’ve been busy catching up, starting with Wired’s interactive article, “The 10 Most Wired Cars of the Geneva Motor Show.” (You can find the information elsewhere, but this one has drool worthy photos.)
First off, get used to “blue” meaning green:
- BlueMotion from […]