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South Australia’s neighboring state of Victoria has upped the ante on grid-scale batteries with the announcement that it’s partnering with Tesla to build a colossal 300-megawatt battery for grid stabilization and renewable energy storage.Continue Readi… Continue reading Tesla to build “humungous” 300-megawatt battery in Australia
While some speed records are going through a heated patch of controversy right now, others appear to be agreed upon. French manufacturer Voxan and the global sanctioning body for motorcycle racing, the FIM, have put out joint press releases announcing … Continue reading Voxan claims 11 records with the world’s fastest electric motorcycle
Many industries use heat-intensive processes that generally require the burning of fossil fuels, but a surprising green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powders. Ground very fine, cheap iron powder burns readily at high temperatures, r… Continue reading World first: Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
Remember the Aeromobil flying car that hit Top Marques Monaco back in 2017? The Aeromobil’s original inventor and designer Stefan Klein left that company in 2016, and has been working on another design with a new company called Klein Vision, also based… Continue reading Klein Vision celebrates maiden flight of its transforming AirCar
America’s Shelby Supercars has more or less abandoned its world’s fastest car claim after eagle-eyed YouTubers pointed out a number of embarrassing, possibly costly discrepancies in its video of the SSC Tuatara making a claimed 316-mph two-way run.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: SSC, Hypercar, World’s Fastest, World Records, New Atlas Audio
Continue reading Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara’s 316-mph speed record
The 2020 Corvette C8 Stingray is absolutely one of the most exciting supercars on the market at the moment, largely because its sub-US$60k price tag actually makes it accessible to a lot of the kind of people who desperately want a mid-engined monster … Continue reading Ares turns the C8 Corvette into a jaw-dropping roofless hypercar
Maryland company Door Robotics, started in 2016 by a pair of University of Maryland students, has hit Kickstarter with what it claims is the world’s first fully integrated 360-degree camera drone. The Vista combines the output of two ultra-wide cameras… Continue reading 360-degree camera drone can depth-map its surroundings with 8K video
Dutch company Pal-V has celebrated a milestone for its Liberty vehicle, which it describes as the world’s first production-model flying car. A high-performance trike that converts into a gyrocopter, the Liberty has been street-approved in the EU.Contin… Continue reading Pal-V Liberty flying car is now street-legal in Europe
Insta360 has upgraded its pocket-sized 360-degree camera – but without adding to its already-beefy 5.7K resolution. The new Insta360 One X2 instead gets some extra intelligence designed to make it an easier, less fiddly and more useful video tool.Conti… Continue reading Insta360’s One X2 360-degree video camera gains extra AI smarts
Yamaha’s wickedly fun MT09 just about nailed the formula for street shenanigans on its debut eight years ago. A lightweight, naked wheelie machine geared to punch its hardest where you’d use it the most, it encouraged bad behaviour every time you threw… Continue reading Yamaha overhauls its MT09 hooligan streetbike, adding all the goodies