CNN is carrying an interesting story today headlined, “Hybrids Trick Out, Plug In.” Datelined from San Francisco, the story discusses hybrid drivers who are seeking conversions from gas power to electric at the Luscious Garage where owner Carolyn Coquillette wonders if the wall outlet is tomorrow’s gas tank.
Essentially the conversion involves adding more batteries to […]
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Shorty
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The first folks to sign up for an electric Tesla Roadster did so with $100,000 in their hot little hands — all for a range of approximately 200 miles, but admittedly in a sexy, sporty package. Then the company started talking about a five-passenger sedan (which then became a sport sedan), the White Star, with […]
Posted on September 26th, 2008 by Shorty
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Honda is debuting a new version of the venerable Odyssey mini van in Japan next month complete with a “multi-view camera system” developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. The unit will afford drivers with a 360 degree view of the area around the van on a single display.
They’ve mounted four CCD cameras on the […]
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Shorty
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While most of us are lucky enough never to experience the agony of buying a car that turns out to be a lemon, for those of us who are caught in such a situation, it’s important to know where you can find both information and advocacy when the dealer drops the ball. That’s why TexasLemon.com […]
Posted on September 16th, 2008 by QueenMab
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Small cars must be feeling like the unlikely candidate who just got named Homecoming Queen. And if there’s any small, sporty, sharp little beauty I’m craving, it has to be the Mini. Over the weekend I was poking around on the net and ran across miniology.com. Instant love. For one thing, I’m coming to appreciate […]
Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Shorty
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All we hear about these days is how overweight we are as a nation. I go out for bike rides and see folks wheezing along doing their best to trim their waist lines. (And having just done that myself, I cheer them along.) But we, as individuals, aren’t the only ones being weight conscious. Every […]
Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Shorty
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Noise cancellation is a technology of which I wholeheartedly approve. After suffering through years of earplug use in college and grad school, I was gifted with an early generation set of noise-canceling headphones that, combined with a brick of a portable CD player, got me through the final years of my education and life as […]
Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Shorty
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Mazda is set to unveil a car in Paris next month, the Kiyora. It’s smaller than the Mazda2 minicar and is being labeled a “city car” with “bold, futuristic styling.” It could possibly be labeled the Mazda1, in fact, and would be competing with the comparable Volkswagen Up and Toyota iQ.
Whereas compacts were once “the” […]
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Shorty
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On the surface, the concept of CarType seems a little strange. This is, after all, a site devoted to car-related typography – the fonts, whirls, and logos that instantly bring into mind iconic cars, and the companies that make them.
Look beyond the surface, however, and what you find is a website that not only […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by QueenMab
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This guy spent $3000 and did it himself to soup up his Prius and get 100 miles per the gallon. (There’s a more expensive conversion with neat little lithium ion batteries available for considerably more bucks.) I think the gentleman in the video is probably the cool older guy on the block who can fix […]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Shorty
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