A Free Electric Car:Imagine Paying Only for Miles You Drive
 Silicon Valley-based Better Place has an innovative business model for electric vehicles. Founded in 2007 by Shai Agassi, Better Place wants to make electric vehicles EVs as affordable as comparable internal combustion cars and overcome their limited range. A primary goal is to build enough charging stations so batteries can be kept charged with 100 miles of driving capacity. These chargers would be located where people work, live, shop, and dine, usually in parking lots. For longer distances...

Infiniti Essence Hybrid Concept a Tribute to Luxury and Style
 We admit it. Although elegantly engineered electric cars inspire us and high fuel efficiency vehicles of all types get our rapt attention, we’re also big fans of performance cars. You can’t be a true-blue car enthusiast without appreciating the auto as art – sometimes fine art in the case of coachwork of the kind offered by marques like Ferrari, Maserati, and Lamborghini. And there’s nothing quite like the sound of an exotic sports car’s engine winding out at high...

Superbus - New concept of public transport
Dutch working on superbus - aerodynamic bus that can also be a high speed train It is an electric bus designed to be able to switch seamlessly between ordinary roads and dedicated “supertracks”, on which it can reach speeds of 250kph 155mph. It could thus present an alternative to much more expensive magnetic-levitation trains. It is as wide and long as a standard city bus, the Superbus is only 1.7 metres high, or roughly the same height as a sports-utility vehicle. There is no middle aisle...

BRB Evolution: Futuristic Concept Car
There are plenty of eco-friendly cars that are around in the market today giving everyone a wide range of options to choose from when they wish to go green. There are also many concept cars that are around which will hopefully one day hit the road as they seem to be a wonderful alternate to the available models filled with green features and loaded with design improvements that really are of great use in everyday life. The BRB Evolution is a very interesting concept apart from the name itself which is...

You don’t climb into a MMR25 to be a driver
You do it because you’re completely hardcore. I will right here guarantee you that if cars like this begin to be driven in rallies, rally racing will be the new most popular race on television- nay, the new most popular sport in the world. Released at this years Los Angeles Auto Show Design Challenge; witness the tantalizingly futuristic Mitsubishi Motors MMR25 Rally Racer. Mitsubishi lays it down like so: “Continuing its world racing heritage and its industry leading expertise in electric...

Nike One Concept
Total Concept The work of Nike and the makers of Gran Tourismo 4, a totally fictional car that had a whole history creatively fabricated for the GT4 release party. These images have been around a while but I just come across them again and thought they where worth putting out there again.“The dramatic and futuristic design of the Nike ONE with its athlete focus, stretched surfaces and less-is-more philosophy is directly inspired from the principles of Nike founder Bill Bowerman” explains...

Green Car: BirdWing
EcoFactor: A futuristic concept car that draws its inspiration from nature a butterfly and uses green features such as LED lighting. The BirdwWing is one of the most beautiful and compact concept cars that we have seen in some time. The car seems to draw its inspiration from the vibrant colors and lustrous hues of the natural world. According to its designers, Chen-Wei Chang and Hsuan-Ju Chia, the concept car takes its inspiration from a butterfly in full flight. The car tries to incorporate the beauty...

How Much Electricity Does It Take To Replace Gasoline?
How Much Electricity Does It Take To Replace Gasoline?   View Jeff Wilson's blog as posted on Better Place Web Site http://planet.betterplace.com/profiles/blogs/how-much-electricity-does-itThis was one of the major questions burning in my mind as I was doing research for The Manhattan Project of 2009.If we took every gasoline-powered car, truck, and SUV and replaced their powertrain with an electric powertrain, how much electricity would it take to totally replace gasoline?This is easy to...

Electric Vehicles To Make A Difference To Climate Change Today
 Aixam Mega, which is Europe’s largest supplier of ultra-light electric vehicles, www.mega-vehicles.com is preparing to boost production for the UK, European and North American markets, following a raft of initiatives by government and private sector groups designed to encourage adoption of electric vehicles to help combat climate change.These initiatives include last week’s announcement in London by the new Zero Emission Vehicle Foundation of a campaign to put 20,000 electric vehicles...

Navevo launches next generation Sat-Nav for HGV and van drivers
Introducing the new ProNav PNN-200Letchworth, England, 11th December 2008 - Navevo, the UK’s leading specialist GPS software developer, has today unveiled its new ProNav PNN-200 sat-nav solution for drivers of heavy goods vehicles and vans. Following on from the successful launch of ProNav, the new ProNav PNN-200 delivers new levels of performance and is now even easier to use thanks to a revised user interface, enhanced Routing-Engine together with free map and transport data updates for new and...