The Toyota Prius is one of the most high-tech cars on the consumer market. So many of its processes are linked up to the car’s onboard computer that you almost don’t even have to... Read more
Renowned innovator and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that within 20 years we will have our energy problem licked. It’s solved. We just don’t know it yet. As he told Lauren Fenny of PBS: “... Read more
Software could make it easier to see in difficult driving conditions A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and “dis-illuminate” them, thereby increasi... Read more
Tests to Start in Toyota City at End of 2012 Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that it has developed a vehicle to home1 (V2H) system for the mutual sharing of power between electric-p... Read more
It all comes down to the price of the lithium-ion battery GETTING the equivalent of 106 mpg (2.2 litres/100km), the Nissan Leaf electric car would seem a motoring skinflint’s dream co... Read more
Nevada has actually thrown open the door to anyone interested in testing an autonomous vehicle on the state’s roads Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has given Google the nation’s... Read more
Toyota AVOS (Automatic Vehicle Operation System), a self-driving version of the Prius After the World Financial Crisis resulted in an agreement between manufacturers to limit their in... Read more
The key to climate change control lies in improved technology. We need to find new ways to produce and use energy, meet our food needs, transport, coal, nitrogen-based fertiliser, and other... Read more
Ignore the 230 miles-per-gallon claims being touted for GM's plug-in hybrid Read more