Archive for the 'cars' Category
With the prevailing economic circumstance in the country, a lot more and a lot more men and women are thinking about getting affordable auto insurance. Right here is how it is possible to do it if you are in California. Cheap California Auto Insurance …
September 4th, 2010 | Posted in cars | No Comments
Nostalgic memories bring to life fond memories of times long gone by, that rouse emotional feelings within us. They are reminiscent of a different age or rather a different generation. The classic muscle cars are a perfect example for this. Their attra…
September 3rd, 2010 | Posted in automobiles, cars | No Comments
A University of Michigan researcher thinks we can triple the fuel economies in our petroleum-powered vehicles in the next 25 years. All we need to do is replace horsepower with brainpower.
John DeCicco, a lecturer at the School of Natural Resources an…
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in automobiles, cars, hybrids | No Comments
We’re not sure how your week was, but for a team of mechanical engineers, speed junkies, and gearheads from Ohio State it was anything but slow. This week the team took the Buckeye Bullet version 2.5, the team’s battery powered, all-electric landspeed…
August 27th, 2010 | Posted in cars | No Comments
Smuggling a nuclear weapon into the U.S. is distressingly simple—all someone needs is a truck full of watermelons. Regulations prohibit using high-power x-rays on perishables, and Geiger counters don’t beep alerts because the juicy fruit absorbs r…
August 24th, 2010 | Posted in Headlines, Technology, cars, trucks | No Comments
You may not have heard about it during your local traffic report this weekend, but anyone negotiating the Beijing-Tibet expressway in recent days is painfully aware of the problem: a 62-mile jam that slowed traffic to a crawl between the Chinese capi…
August 23rd, 2010 | Posted in cars | No Comments
An enzyme found in soybeans could turn an ingredient in vehicle exhaust into new usable fuel, according to a new study. It’s a major step on the path toward making fuel out of thin air.
Scientists were working with a microbe called Azotobacter vinelan…
August 7th, 2010 | Posted in cars | 1 Comment
The hot-pink industrial arm whips you around while you sit in the driver’s seat
Paolo Robuffo Giordano and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, must really enjoy their jobs. Their CyberMotion Simulat…
August 6th, 2010 | Posted in Ferrari, cars | No Comments
Next-generation cars are already being designed to keep us comfortable. But some car companies are going a step further, aiming to make us invincible inside our cars.
By 2020, “nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo,” according to …
August 6th, 2010 | Posted in cars | No Comments
Think your car runs like crap? A sewage utility in Bristol, UK, has converted a Volkswagen Beetle to run on human waste. The Bio-Bug is the first car in the UK to run on byproducts of sewage processing, and if its trial run is successful Wessex Water,…
August 6th, 2010 | Posted in cars, concepts | No Comments
An invention that’s been around for two decades, but is only now getting any real attention, could change the way millions of people drive — if people ever have the good sense to adopt it, its inventor says. Japanese inventor Masuyuki Naruse claims t…
August 4th, 2010 | Posted in cars, concepts, inventions | No Comments
Each 3D Fast Bus can carry over a thousand passengers
Public transit in a metropolitan area is all about balance; if there aren’t enough public transit options, too many people choose to drive, clogging roadways and adding to pollution. But trains are…
August 3rd, 2010 | Posted in cars, concepts, electric cars | No Comments
By: katrina
There are three basic types of air suspensions: the double convoluted, the tapered sleeve and the rolling sleeve. The double convoluted air suspension is used in front-driven suspensions and is able to carry more weight than the other types. The double convoluted system is used in many vehicles that carry loads, like trucks. It [...]
August 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Technology, car, cars, cheap, concepts, damage | No Comments
By: L.Steven Sanders
What are auto transport companies? These are organizations which provide the service of delivering your vehicle to your new home. You will discover two kinds of assistance that most auto transporters can supply. Having a program like this, your vehicle will be either picked up and placed on a hauling truck, or it [...]
August 2nd, 2010 | Posted in automobiles, car, cars | No Comments
By: Edmund N. Figueroa
Buying used car is not a simple thing to do. There are many things that you have to look at in order to get the best car in the best price. You will find that this will save your money since you do not have to pay much money to have this [...]
August 2nd, 2010 | Posted in automobiles, cars | No Comments
Cars will dispense vitamins and helpful reminders
Never mind running on electricity — cars of the future will be so helpful, they’ll spray us with vitamins and make sure we never forget another anniversary.
That’s the future envisioned by the people …
July 28th, 2010 | Posted in cars, electric cars | No Comments
When the Chevy Volt concept first materialized a few years back, there were a lot of questions surrounding America’s first mass-market electric car. While answers to most of those questions dribbled out over the last few years, GM remained mum on on…
July 27th, 2010 | Posted in cars, electric cars, hybrids | No Comments
By: Steamboat L. Salter
Paint your own Rims? Who would have thought something previously done by professionals could be done in your own home.
While, the concept of painting your own rims has been around a few years now, many questions pop up of how to do it and I thought I would share my own experiences [...]
July 27th, 2010 | Posted in Consumer Market, automobiles, cars, damage | No Comments
By: sumitdadhich
Men improved their mode of transportation from early centuries to present era. Slowly cars were developed and so were their variety. From small size to mid-size, from a diesel engine to petrol efficient there was a major discovery that made the movement of men much easier. Cars were slowly transformed into a style statement [...]
July 27th, 2010 | Posted in automobiles, cars, suv | No Comments
By: David Halbert
Millions of Car Accidents occur worldwide every year, and the fatalities due to these accidents are also in the millions. Most of the time, it is somehow the driver who is responsible for the accident.
According to a Traffic Report by the WHO, road accidents kill more than 1.2 million people annually, and around [...]
July 27th, 2010 | Posted in Lifestyle, World, cars, fast cars | No Comments