Recent postsMany accuse large companies of overusing green terminology as a fashion term to win new customers without their products necessarily being helpful to the environment. The automotive industry however has entered a difficult period, with cars indeed being responsible for a part of the planet’s problems. Despite some sectors -see shipping for example- doing nothing [...]
The automotive industry has been many times described as old and out of fashion. It is not a secret that in many cases automotive companies had to be virtual dragged by customer demand or sheer competition for new innovations and features. In the last two decades the value percentage attributed to car electronics is steadily [...]
It is certainly easier to use new and expensive technology in a luxury product package for rich people that are desperately seeking an expensive green image. Hybrid Technologies intends to compete head on with Tesla for sports car fans that are willing to pay a bit extra for startling acceleration and near perfectly quiet motoring.
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In recent years, there has been a growing number of people that are repulsed by the technical stalemate plaguing motorsport. Regulation versions refer mostly to horsepower limits, aerodynamic details, electronic aid systems and driver safety. It is difficult to forget the rally group B monsters that were banned in the eighties after a long [...]
It is encouraging to hear an optimistic prediction from the transport sector, one of the systematic polluters of our planet. Top Audi executive Rupert Stadler has made the heavy prediction that in 5-10 years from now, zero emission cars will be possible. In the meantime, diesels and hybrids will dominate.
The part referring to diesels and [...]
Project Better Place had its first strike of success in Israel, now Denmark becomes the second country that is definitely planning to go ahead with electric cars and the related infrastructure.
The difference between the two? Unlike Israel, Denmark has a huge wind energy generation base that on average provides 20% of the country’s needs. At [...]
Chrysler does not only want to rely on car design for its future. As a result, full Internet functionality will be added to existing models this year and later on will be installed from the assembly line throughout the model range.
It is doubtful that this is a response to BMW’s plans for Internet in its [...]
It was about time! Modern cars are loaded with super advanced audio-video equipment and sophisticated GPS navigation. But what about simple, humble, good old web surfing?
Now things start to move in this front also, and BMW has presented in the Geneva automotive show its X6 beauty with full web browsing capability integrated from the factory! [...]
We have in the past written that internal combustion engines are not going to disappear overnight, despite what battery and electric vehicle companies want you to believe. Unavoidably, one by one, all established car companies will enrich their model ranges with hybrid versions. Mercedes-Benz could not of course be left behind and has released initial [...]
Tesla has shaken the automotive world with its all-electric Roadster and will now build a gas-electric hybrid. The new approach will be applied in its Whitestar sedan that will appear in 2009, the new model will also be available in all-electric form. So is this important news? I think yes because it seems that Tesla [...]
Project Better Place is finding its first application in Israel. Earlier this week, its CEO Shai Agassi, Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn took part in a press conference to announce the collaboration. Project Better Place has raised $2.3 billion from private investors -mainly in Israel- and will invest initially $200 [...]
We want to finish 2007 in a really positive note. It has been a year of black predictions for the environment but new forward looking people and technologies are promising to reverse that trend. The Tindo is such a wonderful project. It marries two clean technologies:
Electric motors driven by 11 onboard batteries.
Photovoltaic panels at the [...]
The Nissan GT-R is a dream car, with a character distinguishing it completely from Italian and German exotica. Unfortunately, modern electronics come to spoil completely driving satisfaction limit the car’s top speed to a sad 180 km/h (111 mph) in Japan and 250 km/h (156 mph) in the US -and I suspect in Europe. The [...]
From time to time there is new ideas that make us pray every night they become commercially available products as soon as possible. Virtual Cable from MVS in the US is such a great and elegant looking idea. No more need to have a small screen for the GPS instructions. All you need and indeed [...]
There’s a lot of speculation as to the new directions of expansion that Google is going to take. First of all comes the 700 MHz auction in the US and whether Google will take it seriously or is just testing the water. Then there is the green energy sector that is more of a certainty [...]
