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2013 Chevrolet Spark EV (pics/video)

2013 Chevrolet Spark EV (pics/video)

Chevy’s Spark minicar is becoming an electric vehicle come 2013, which is GM’s first full EV since their EV1. The Spark EV joins Chey’s growing electric vehicles that includes the Volt extended-range EV and the 2013 [...]

Evatran Wireless Car Charging Coming Soon To The Chevy Volt

Evatran Wireless Car Charging Coming Soon To The Chevy Volt

Wireless charging, while not truly wireless in some respects, has emerged for a variety of consumer products thanks to companies such as Powermat.  Unfortunately, there selection of goods is limited to handheld items, which makes logical [...]

LEGO Porsche is Fully Operational (video)

LEGO Porsche is Fully Operational (video)

This to scale LEGO Porsche 911 is absolutely insane.  The roof is not only retractable but motorized, the hood can be opened by pulling a lever from the interior, the doors have real locks and that’s [...]

EconoDriver Review

EconoDriver Review

Pros: Precisely relays information regarding driving relative to fuel economy Easy to use and setup Cons: Bulky, too big for some keychains Gas is expensive. I remember a time when I couldn’t spend more than $20 [...]

Tesla Says New Electric Models Coming, Includes Cabriolet

Tesla Says New Electric Models Coming, Includes Cabriolet

We love us some Tesla…the car company that is.  Elon Musk, who recently made an appearance in the Iron Man 2 movie, is on a ‘roadshow’ in anticipation of the company’s IPO.  His presentation hints at [...]

ThinkGeek’s Power Bullet Charger

ThinkGeek’s Power Bullet Charger

Not too sure why it’s called the Power Bullet Charger, but it actually looks like a decent product.  Effectively allowing you to eliminate a charger from your stockpile, the Power Bullet Charger has both a wall [...]

Flying Hovercraft, For Realz (video)

Flying Hovercraft, For Realz (video)

Screw cars, screw hover crafts, I want the Wing in Ground flying hovercraft.  Invented by Rudy Heeman of Nelson, New Zealand it took him 10+ years to build the water/flight vehicle in his garage.  He used [...]

RoboCar G Autonomous Vehicle (video)

RoboCar G Autonomous Vehicle (video)

The RoboCar G could easily be mistaken for a golf cart, but it’s much more than that.  Using a combination of sensors, including stereo cameras, laser rangefinders, radar and sonar, as well as an inertial measurement [...]

Antro Solar Vehicle Runs On The Sun’s Rays And Can Be Split In Half

Antro Solar Vehicle Runs On The Sun’s Rays And Can Be Split In Half

Antro’s solar vehicle is far more than meets the eye.  Sure it can drive up to 20km per day on solar power alone, but what you can’t see is that the car is modular and according [...]

Honda’s 3R-C Concept Vehicle Will Turn Heads At This Year’s Geneva Motor Show

Honda’s 3R-C Concept Vehicle Will Turn Heads At This Year’s Geneva Motor Show

Honda’s 3 wheeled concept vehicle won’t reach the kind of top speeds we’d obtain from the T-Rex, but it will get you there with a far smaller carbon footprint. The Honda 3R-C will be on show [...]