Ford has introduced two new features designed to improve drivers’ road vision: the Blind Spot Mirror and the Cross Traffic Alert. The mirror has an integrated convex spotter mirror aimed directly at the vehicle’s blind spot, and the monitoring system ...
Driving On Air
The car manufacturer Zero Pollution Motors plans to introduce the six-seater Air Car CityCat to the U.S. market. Developed by Formula One race car engineer Guy Negre, the Air Car is equipped with a revolutionary dual-energy compressed air engine, achieving ...
Israel – First Country to Welcome Electric Cars
Carlos Ghosn, President of the French-Japanese car manufacturer “Renault-Nissan”, and Shai Agassi, an American-Israeli entrepreneur and former CEO of the software giant “SAP AG”, have recently signed an agreement of collaboration. In the agreement, the two agreed upon a plan ...
CCXR- Bio Fuel Powered Sports Car
The elite Swedish sports car manufacturer Koenigsegg has created a new bio-fuel powered sports car named CCXR. This Limited Edition CCXR is the first homologated car currently in production to reach over 1,000 Brake horsepower, and a top speed of ...
Solar Concentrator Green Race Car
For the first time University of Michigan students have managed to implement mirror technology in a solar car. The vehicle, named Continuum, arrived at the 7th place at the Panasonic World Solar Challenge, a 1,800-mile race across Australia. In the ...
DARPA’s Urban Challenge 2007
Held for the third time since its outset in 2004, the DARPA Grand Challenge is the largest scale research and development program for autonomous vehicles. Taking place in the U.S., the event features robot cars built by teams from all ...
Toyota’s i-Real: The Real Transformer
Toyota recently uncovered a new conceptual personal mobility vehicle called i-Real, at the 2007 Tokyo Auto Show. The new vehicle can easily change its shape to fit its speed of movement. The i-Real vehicle was developed in order to demonstrate ...
Water Powered Car Demonstrated?
Denny Klein, an inventor from Florida, has introduced the world’s first water powered car. His own 1994 Ford Escort, labeled “Hydrogen Technology”, can run on a combination of water and gasoline, and Klein says it is possible to develop a ...
Is Your Car Smart?
A research team at Sandia National Laboratories is designing cars capable of analyzing human behavior. These smart cars will be able to detect whether the driver is tired or not concentrated and take appropriate action to prevent dangerous scenarios. These ...
Ford’s Hydrogen Car Sets New Record
Fusion Hydrogen 999 – Ford’s 500-horsepower fuel cell race car, recently broke the land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats at a speed of 207 miles per hour (333 km/h). According to Ford the Fusion is the world’s first ...