Tesla saved the day in Australia after Loy Yang Power Station, a major coal plant, shut down unexpectedly without any warning. The ion batteries rose to the occasion by compensating for the energy deficiency. The batteries, created by Tesla, were capable of coming online within fractions of a second before the plant’s backup was able…
Category: Cars and Bikes
Falcon Heavy Is Taking Musk’s Roadster To Outer Space
Elon Musk is known for coming up with ideas that sound a lot like fool’s gold. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years; you do not underestimate this man. Ever. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk floated the idea of sending his car to outer space earlier this month. The news was treated as…
First Aston Martin DBR1 Sold For $22.5 Million at Auction
Alright car lovers, hold onto your seats. The most important Austin Martin ever built has been sold at an auction on Friday for a whooping $22.5 million. The car was sold at the annual auction during the Monterey Car Week. What’s so special about this Aston Martin you ask? This is Aston Martin DBR1 and…
Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet Is 6 Meters Long
At the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance event in California, Mercedes-Benz wooed the audience by exhibiting its cabriolet model design. The Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 Cabriolet is a beautiful juxtaposition of vintage automotive haute couture and futuristic technology coupled with emission-free driving system. The amazing cabriolet has been designed so that it is capable of performing…
Airbus Has Launched Pop.UP – Vahana Flying Concept Car
At last, Airbus has debuted its Vahana flying concept car, which is part car and part quadcopter drone, at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. This unique flying concept car has been named Pop.Up for which Airbus collaborated with Italdesign on the practical-sci-fi look of the car. Pop.Up is fully electric and zero-emission. It adjusts to…
Make Way For BMW K75 Alpha Bullet Bike
In order to manufacture the BMW K75 Alpha Bullet Bike, the designer Mehmet Doruk Erdem and builder Mark Atkinson have teamed up. This customized design is based on a Salt Flats racer concept. Mehmet Doruk Erdem, a Turkish industrial designer, customized the bike. He is a popular designer who has been designing custom motorcycles for…
New ETF Haul Truck Is 4X More Efficient Than Conventional Haul Trucks
Several suggestions about mining operations are floating around, particularly about their ecological footprint. Mining techniques have not been precisely that environmentally friendly in the past. But, a German mining equipment company is planning to change this with the help of huge electric trucks. Every year, millions of kilograms of minerals are extracted from the Earth’s…
Tesla’s New Rival Is Elextra Sports Sedan
This year, the Geneva Motor Show will have several fascinating electric vehicles, including some we would have never seen coming before the first teaser or announcement made. One among that family is the Elextra sports sedan. It is a Swiss-designed, German-built four-door that attempts to marry curvy Italian styling with electric performance fit to put…
PAL-V Liberty Can Be Pre-Ordered Now
The first certified commercial flying car ever, PAL-V Liberty, is now available for pre-orders by the Dutch company, PAL-V. While describing, the company said that it is “a groundbreaking product that inaugurates the age of the flying car”. It also stated; “The PAL-V Liberty is a marriage between safety and fun, designed to satisfy the…
First-Ever Autonomous Car Finishes Roborace With A Crash
Formula E’s Buenos Aires ePrix: autonomous racers has been joined by a unique addition. In the opening Roborace, two self-driving cars raced before the ePrix. The race did not go very well as a dog came out in the middle of the course. However, the autonomous cars fortunately evaded the four-legged obstruction. Who let the…
The World’s First Indoor/Outdoor eBike, Falco eDrive
The all-new Falco eDrive is an electric bike drive that doubles as an indoor trainer and is a year-round cycling solution for those that enjoy living in the saddle. This indoor/outdoor cycling system drops a powered wheel onto your bicycle for up to 100 miles (161 km) of e-boosted range, then docks in the included…
SLADDA Is IKEA’s First Flat-Pack Bike
SLADDA is IKEA’s first flat-pack bike and since its introduction has already drove some cyclists mad by taking about an hour to assemble. This stylish urban bike of Scandinavian furniture and accessories company will be available in US stores starting this month. The design of the bike absolutely draws attention to the coolness and functionality…
Audi Collaborates With German 3D Printing Company EOS
A new partnership has been declared by automotive manufacturer Audi with fellow German company, 3D printer manufacturers EOS. The additive manufacturing will be used for, “equipment and prototype building at Audi, as well as motor sports, where the technology is already in use today.” Famous for their industrial-sized Direct Metal Laser Sintering machines, EOS are…
Airbus Is Testing Its Flying Car By The End of 2017
The notion of ‘flying car’ has been tried by several companies. Prototype after prototype has been created without any accomplishment over the years, which has left us all doubting whether the concept of a highway in the sky is at all conceivable. Several companies have taken a crack at creating an airborne passenger vehicle capable…
Tesla Model S P100D Will Be Overpowered By Faraday Future Prototype
Faraday Future is working arduously to produce scheme for a vehicle as the 2017 CES is approaching. Despite the fact that not much information is available regarding the car, it is being expected to be a very big deal. For some months now, it is being considered within the industry that the company is working…