iPhone camera used to study traffic lights

08/29/2011, Don’t you just hate it when you’re headed towards a traffic light, brake, only to have the lights turn green 2 seconds later? If you didn’t already know, unnecessary or excessive braking will result in your car wasting energy and [...]

Fuel efficiency increased with smartphone

08/25/2011, Who would have thought that a smartphone could help save the world especially where increasing the level of fuel efficiency in vehicles? Well, that seems to be the case as the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference that happened in [...]

New shock absorber technology will convert those bumps into useful energy

07/15/2011, If you thought that the suspension system on your car was just to…suspend your car, you would be wrong. It seems that researchers are now looking at a way to convert the energy generated by the shock that it absorbs [...]

Lightweight Edison2 Concept Car Achieves 100+ MPG

09/16/2010, At the X-Prize competition, the team that designed the Edison2 concept car was able to get their lightweight automobile with innovative design and construction and not with simple green technology like an electric engine. However, despite using an old-fashion internal [...]