Would be the first mass-produced, commercially available automobile to offer drivers the ability to recharge a depleted battery via solar power or by plugging into an outlet. Solar-powered c... Read more
The night watchman of the future is 5 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2-D2 – without the whimsy. And will work for $6.25 an hour. A company in California has developed a m... Read more
Harnessing the power of Ford’s open-source platform OpenXC, 3D printing, Bluetooth and a Xbox 360, one of the Detroit automobile manufacturer’s engineers has created a manual shift gear knob... Read more
A brake light warning of slowing traffic ahead could speed up reactions for drivers several cars behind a braking vehicle. When a driver hits the brakes, the cars following behind may not se... Read more
Engineers at the Big Blue Oval see sensor fusion, machine learning, and Big Data as some of the next-generation of R&D coming to market. As sensing, computing and communications systems... Read more
Automotive manufacturers often use the media glare surrounding events like the International Motor Show in Frankfurt to showcase concept vehicles never intended for production. Such models a... Read more
The social networking revolution is apparently not something you can drive to. A Super Bowl ad for the Chevy Cruze showed a guy heading home from a date and then using a voice-activated vers... Read more
Ford Motor Company is teaming up with San Jose-based solar panel maker SunPower to offer a rooftop solar system option which will be sold alongside the upcoming Ford Focus EV. The “Drive Gre... Read more