Electric Audis, VW L1, and a Flying Car
Electric Audis
According to Reuters, the top brass at Audi thinks electric cars represent a great opportunity and within ten years their company will be offering cars with zero emissions. Ruper Stadler, an Audi executive speaking to the German publication Welt am Sonntag predicted both diesel and battery tech will be the dominating factors in automotive design over the next five years to a decade. Now, let’s just hope all those as yet unbuilt Audis aren’t for the European market only.
VW 230 mpg L1 Concept
For its part VW’s L1 concept will return 230 miles per gallon. The trade off, however, is that we’re talking a tiny little machine with the passenger perched behind the driver and topping out at around 75 mph. (Frankly, in something that little, I’m not sure you’d want to be going any faster.) You an read more at EcoGeek.
Parkable Airplane
And just to wind up with something a little closer to the geeky heart from xconomy.com, you cannot miss the Terrafugia Transition — a “roadable aircraft.” This is not as ridiculous as it sounds and there’s a lot involved getting the FAA and the NHTSA to sign off on something like this. It’s a somewhat lengthy article, but well worth the time.