You may know that when car-makers want to set records and get a reputation for fast performance they go to the Nurburgring Nordschleife in Germany. Nissan recently ran its X-Trail fuel cell vehicle there, the first FCV to record a lap on the famous track. The course was wet, but the 1.3 million euro prototype […]
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Shorty
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Hat tip to Engadget for this one. Audi is rumored to be working on a system that will tell drivers “how fast to drive to catch a green light.” Traffic signals in Ingolstadt, Germany have been configured with sensors that send information to allow traffic patterns to shift around for “optimum light switching.” The […]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Shorty
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Finally! Some word on the merger of Sirius and XM. Federal regulators have reached conditional approval of Sirius’ purchase of XM, mainly since both companies are ready to shell out millions to make charges of past rule breaking go bye-bye. (Read “voluntary contributions” to the U.S. Treasury totaling about $19 million combined.)
The five-member Federal Communications […]
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Shorty
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For all the corporate cutbacks and economic woes, at least one General Motors dealer did something pretty exciting this week in a majorly green way and the home office was more than ready to cash in and celebrate to pick up some good press. The event in question was the re-opening of a new $15 […]
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Shorty
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Last night my housemate and I went out to the drive-in. While we ate our less than healthy but every so tasty meal, we engaged in our usual habit of trash talking the SUVs that came driving by and approvingly noting the compacts and hybrids. We both pointed to a yellow Mini with white racing […]
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Shorty
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Prius to Catch Some Rays?
In an interesting development, word has it that Toyota has plans to add solar panels to the roof of its popular Prius hybrid. The panels, built by Kyocera, will be used to run the air conditioning. It will be two or three years before the Prius line gets a retooling, at […]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Shorty
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Just this week General Motors announced a commitment of $5 million for a five-year joint venture with Carnegie Mellon to work on driverless tech. The press release talks about a vision of folks eating breakfast and checking their email while the car does the driving, but the real goal is to merge existing monitoring systems […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Shorty
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Tesla Motors, is all over the news this week, with three different announcements of new developments, all released yesterday.
First, they’ve introduced the new Model S, a fully electric five-passenger sedan that will be able to go about 225 miles between charges, and comes with a pricetag of about $60,000. If that seems a […]
Posted on July 1st, 2008 by QueenMab
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