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Researchers at the US Dept of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, working with Northern Illinois University, have discovered a new catalyst that can convert carbon dioxide and water into ethanol with “very high energy efficiency, high selectivity for… Continue reading New catalyst rearranges carbon dioxide and water into ethanol fuel
Cadillac has unveiled its Lyriq show car, the first car based on GM’s next-gen modular EV platform and the harbinger of a new electric design language for the brand. Its nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminum (NCMA) structural battery pack holds 100 kWh, for… Continue reading Cadillac launches pretty Lyriq EV, a clean-sheet, 300-mile luxury SUV
AMA 250GP national champion racer Roland Sands has been taking perfectly good motorcycles and engoodening them further for 20-odd years. Now, he’s turned his attentions to BMW’s giant boxer cruiser, giving the R18 a hardtail dragster treatment.Continue… Continue reading Roland Sands builds a straight-line dragster out of the BMW R18
Last week, we met Yamaha’s first dual-suspension ebikes, the YDX-Moro and Moro Pro. Now we’ve got full details on the componentry and prices for these 500-watt, trail-hungry beasts.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: ebikes, Yamaha, Off-… Continue reading Prices and details drop on Yamaha’s tough-looking YDX-Moro ebikes
The Bentley Blower Continuation Series is a bizarre project, so far removed from the lives of regular people that it does kind of take the breath away. The company has painstakingly disassembled one of its most iconic 1920s race cars, laser-3D-scanned … Continue reading Bentley starts assembling its prototype reverse-engineered 1929 Blower
The supercar of the year – perhaps indeed the decade, early though it is – has finally fully launched, and we’ve now got a trove of images of the first car that Formula One/McLaren F1 design genius Gordon Murray says he’s truly 100 percent happy with.C… Continue reading Gordon Murray finally launches his wildly innovative T.50 masterpiece
Yesterday we covered the news that New Zealand’s second-largest electricity distributor has signed a deal with startup Emrod to trial long-range wireless power transmission. Today we follow up with an interview with Emrod’s founder, Greg Kushnir, to ta… Continue reading New Zealand’s wireless power transmission: Your questions answered
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Doogee has announced a new N20 Pro smartphone with a 16-megapxel camera and a 4,400-mAh battery it says can deliver up to 15 days of standby or 19 hours of talk time at a budget price point.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobi… Continue reading Doogee goes big on battery life for affordable N20 Pro
Autopilot has been around longer than you think. Indeed, in 1914, just 11 years after the Wright Brothers first ushered humanity into the aviation age, a fellow named Lawrence Sperry built a gyroscopic self-stabilization system into a Curtiss C-2. It w… Continue reading Autonomous Airbus aces autopilot taxi, takeoff and landing tests
A New Zealand-based startup has developed a method of safely and wirelessly transmitting electric power across long distances without the use of copper wire, and is working on implementing it with the country’s second-largest power distributor.Continue… Continue reading NZ to trial world-first commercial long range, wireless power transmission