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- Ugly Aerodynamic Tail Makes For Good Fuel Efficiency Fri, 1 Jan 10, 3:35amSome people will go to great lengths to get the best gas mileage possible. There are simple ways of doing this of course, like using a light touch on the gas pedal and coasting whenever possible. If you’re mechanically...
- Top Gear Chaps Build Their Own Chevy Volt Killer—It’s a Good Laugh Wed, 25 Nov 09, 4:35amTop Gear is one of my all-time favorite shows. It never ceases to provide laughs and good entertainment while simultaneously managing to actually deliver useful content as well. My only gripe with it is that here in the States,...
- The Backwater DIY Electric Boat Marathon | Popular Mechanics Thu, 8 Oct 09, 3:17amWho said water and electricity don’t mix? At the Wye Island Marathon, the pairing of the two is celebrated as racers push more than 23 miles into 20 mph headwinds, 2 foot waves and rough chop, propelled only by DIY...
- 6 Alternative-Fuel Vehicles Built By Teenagers Sun, 16 Aug 09, 5:24amCar companies like Tesla, Toyota and Nissan are all scrambling for a piece of the EV market. Heck, even cities like San Francisco and Portland want some. But they all just got pwned by these kids. These vehicles run on...
- Shaquille O’Neal Helps to Debut the World’s First E-Fuel MicroFueler Thu, 30 Jul 09, 6:00pmWho needs a gas station to fill your tank with ethanol? Not you. GreenHouse has just announced the E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable in-home micro-refinery system that turns organic waste into ethanol. The first installation...
- 8th Grader Builds Solar-Powered Bike With GPS, iPod Dock Thu, 18 Jun 09, 2:34amEighth-grader David S. Dixon–along with his dad David G. Dixon–has built a street-legal quadricycle powered by a solar-charged electric motor. The bike not only carries his dog and three friends, but it has also...
- XR3: 225 MPG Plug-In Hybrid Trike Headed for Production Mon, 15 Jun 09, 3:58amRobert Riley’s XR3 kit car is an amazing three-wheeled plug-in diesel hybrid. The trike gets a jaw dropping 225mpg on combined diesel-electric power and 125mpg when using only the 23hp diesel engine.
- The Solar Human Hybrid Vehicle Wed, 3 Jun 09, 3:25amFor all intents and purposes, the automobile has remained largely unchanged in the past 100 years ever since the first Ford Model T started rolling off of assembly lines...
- Guy Builds Electric Motorcycle From Junk Sat, 23 May 09, 5:36amTony Parker Has Built An Electric Bike Made From Junk. He Also Made A Solar And Wind-Powered Charging Station For The Bike. Tony Parker has built an electric motorbike completely from found junk. Why? The laid-off worker...
- Back to basics: Aerocivic gets website Tue, 19 May 09, 8:36amJeremy Clarkson, the outspoken host of Britain’s Top Gear auto show, made a spectacle of racing a Prius vs. a BMW M3, in which the latter recieved better gas mileage. His point was that is isn’t what you drive,...