Google is not an automaker, but has been using its considerable technological weight to develop autonomous drive.
The result of this Google Skunkworks research and development project is a prototype autonomous drive vehicle, the Google Car. For the last few...
A research team composed of members from the University of Minnesota and NREL recently evaluated the overall impact of different fuels we use in our automobiles, or light-duty transportation as the study authors call them, on the environment. They...
No one wants to admit that they’re wasting anything, but sometimes, such as during the holiday season, we go overboard. The result is waste, including packaging and gift-wrap waste, money waste, and even food waste, pretty much all of...
Many would argue that hybrid-electric vehicles nowadays are the wisest choice. Clean and smooth, yet minus the fear that the battery will run out half way between charging stations. If this is the case with cars, it is only logical...
'Tis the season for recycling - gifts, food and what have you. 'Tis also the season to be jolly as well, as dead satellites are reborn and reveal to us faraway planets and stars, not just the one in...
Trefecta e-bike will completely change, or to use the makers' words, create a new way of thinking about the comfortable items that are almost never seen as a luxurious mode of transport.
Electric bicycles are often seen as the humble relative of...
It is that time of the year again, when people buy and give millions of little gadgets and toys that all run on the popular AA batteries. Here is one for those of you who would like to try...
It’s been a few months in coming, but Tesla Motors is finally making good on its promise to offer battery swapping, for realz this time, for the Tesla Model S.
We all know at least three things about the Tesla...
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have stumbled upon a solution to the “sudden death” phenomenon in lithium-air battery chemistry: just add water!
New rechargeable battery technology is constanty in development, as we’ve spent lots of time covering here, from solid-state...
A quiet energy efficient fridge, coffee table that can chill drinks, radiant on-demand temperature control for rooms. All this could become reality with large scale semiconductor cooling, and a US-based start-up might just have what it takes to make...
