All the stories tagged with: Transportation
Personal Hovercraft Now Seats Two
03/11/2013, If you happen to have plenty of spare cash lying around at home or in the bank, then it would make plenty of sense to check out what gadget mavens Hammacher Schlemmer have up their sleeves this time around, where [...]
Wireless charging for electric vehicles
03/11/2013, Wireless charging is convenient and is the way forward to meet the challenge of keeping electric vehicles charged. Qualcomm is putting its wireless charging platform through real-world tests by experimenting its Halo Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging (WEVC) technology with a [...]
Orcasub For Those With Money To Burn
03/10/2013, Let’s just say that you inherited a handsome amount of money from your grandfather whom you knew was rich, but did not know that he was a billionaire. So with $100 million or so ringing around your pockets, what are [...]
School Bus Driver Caught Texting While Driving
03/08/2013, Texting while driving has been one activity a good majority of people realize is a terrible idea, and yet there are a number of us who can’t help but to take our eyes off the road for a few seconds [...]
Subaru Vehicles Start On Its Own, Recalls Are In Order
03/08/2013, So, there are haunted houses and haunted castles, but what about a haunted car? I am not referring to an apparition that zips through the chilly night air like a smoke, plowing through physical objects before disappearing into the unknown, [...]
Charging Your Electric Cars Become Easier
03/07/2013, When 1 + 1 equals to 3, you know for sure that the wonders of synergy is at work here. The enemy of your enemy is your friend, and so this is how two rival Bay Area companies have more [...]
Boeing 787 Conjures More Than 500GB Of Data Per Flight
03/07/2013, We do know that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner did runs into battery and electrical issues recently, but that does not detract from the fact that Boeing’s latest attempt at a commercial jet is chock-full of technology, ranging from windows that [...]
Volvo Introduces Car Scanner That Automatically Brakes For Cyclists
03/06/2013, Volvo has been announcing some great improvements to its upcoming vehicles as they introduced a high beam system that would shade your light to other vehicles last week and earlier today, the company announced it was teaming up with Spotify. That’s not [...]
Spotify And Volvo Team Up For Voice Navigated Music Application
03/06/2013, Back in February, Spotify announced a partnership with Ford in which its app will be part of Ford’s Sync AppLink system. Now it looks like Spotify has teamed up with another car manufacturer, Volvo, and they will be bringing a [...]
Mitsubishi Concept CA-MiEV Unveiled
03/05/2013, Mitsubishi and the electric car is a story that has been well hashed where the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is concerned, but folks who have seen (much less driven it) would know that the i-MiEV is not famous for two things – [...]
Future Ferrari Models Could See iPads Integrated Into Them
03/05/2013, The Ferrari is a sports car whose price tag puts it way out of range for most of us, but if you happen to be one of the few who can afford one, you might be interested to learn that [...]
Yunasko: Ultracapacitors with High Power Efficiency
03/05/2013, [CeBIT 2013] I met with Yunasko‘s co-founders Natalia Stryzhakova (Ph.D.) and Andrii Buvailo at CeBIT in Hannover. Yunasko develops ultracapacitors, which are energy storage devices with extremely high power capacities and fast charge / discharge profiles. For example, high power [...]
ELF: Hybrid Solar / Pedal Vehicle by Organic Transit
03/04/2013, [CeBIT 2013] Today at CeBIT, I met with Alix Bowman and Rob Cotter from Organic Transit, the green transportation company behind ELF, an innovative solar / pedal hybrid vehicle. This egg-shaped tricycle can be powered by an electric engine when [...]
