Category: Transportation

Screwdriver Powered Electric Vehicle Steers With Your Body

  Electric vehicles are just now starting to make their mark on the general transportation market. While it has a long way to go, a lot of talented engineers and designers are putting their best works forward to help get us to an electric vehicle future. While some of those design efforts are more focused

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Play Mario Kart, For Real

  Have you ever played Mario Kart and wished that you could take it out for a spin for real? Well, a partnership between West Coast Customs and Nintendo is bringing that one step closer to reality. The deal involves the construction of several of the carts from the hit video game, with reality and

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Green Cars 101 (Infographic)

 Cars are everywhere, and in the past they have been a thirsty lot, drinking precious fuel by the barrel and belching toxins by the cubic yard. But the tide is changing, and green mobiles are moving from the design board onto the highways and byways (I just love saying that).  The infographic below looks at

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Teague Presents Pulse, the Bike

      You may not know the name, but Teague are the ones responsible for designing the original XBox, among other things.  Now they have taken their artistry to personal transportation, and so they present us with Pulse. The bike features a fixed gear drivetrain along with handlebar activated turn signals.  But these features

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Pickup Or Compact, CarGo Can Go

   So, you want to be green and do your part by driving an economical and compact vehicle, but you really need a pickup to get the job done.  What is a futuristic hard working person to do?  Well, you could get something like the CarGo and have a little of both. The CarGo, designed

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Spira, The Foam Constructed Fun Floating Econo Car

Question for you – what is yellow, made of foam, gets around 100 miles per gallon on the road, and floats?  Why, the Spira, of course. The Spira is a new high efficiency vehicle designed by inventor Lon Ballard.  The twinkie-esque car weighs in at a mere 302 pounds (137 kg), and tops out at

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The Auto Moto is an affordable and fun 83 mpg vehicle

As the current energy crisis (for lack of a better word) carries on, three wheel vehicles are continuing to make their existence known. The platform, which can be described as a cross between a motorcycle and a standard car, can be found as many concept vehicles such as the offering from Peugeot.  However, there are

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Dual Mode Skycar to tackle 3700 mile expedition trip to Timbuktu

Around January 2009, the Skycar Expedition Team plan to take the Skycar on a journey  from London to legendary Timbuktu, a trip of about 3,700 miles.  While that is an ambitious project for any concept vehicle on its shakedown cruise,  the very nature of the vehicle itself promises that it will be a very unique trip. The

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Venturi Volage is an impressive all electric sportscar

The 2008 Paris Motor Show was no doubt a blast to take in, but one of the headliners was the Venturi Volage vehicle.  The Volage is a completely electric car that boasts some serious power, so to say.  The vehicle sports 295 horsepower along with 171 Pound-feet of torque.  This gives the electric sportscar a 0-60 time

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Peugeot high tech three wheel hybrid is a cross between scooter and car

 More and more small three wheel vehicles are showing up when efficiency is a major concern, and for good reason – there are less wheels to drive, yet the vehicle remains upright when unattended.  So it makes sense that  Peugeot would look to that platform when designing a fuel efficient all weather runabout.  Their fun

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