Cake goes fully street legal with its Kalk& electric enduro bike

There’s a neat little category opening up somewhere between e-bikes and electric motorcycles, and Cake’s new Kalk& (Kalk and) is a perfect example. Weighing just 79 kg (174 lb), with a range “over 86 km” (53 mi), it’d be a super fun dual … Continue reading Cake goes fully street legal with its Kalk& electric enduro bike

Harley-Davidson is making electric balance bikes for 3-year-olds – no kidding

Harley-Davidson needs to get its bikes in the hands of younger riders, that’s clear. But this young? The company has announced a pair of electric balance bikes to get American iron into the hands of 3-5- and 5-7-year-olds…
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South Australia's Ace EV rolls out its first electric cargo van

The Ace Cargo is designed as a simple, practical electric delivery vehicle

Compact and humble, the first of Australia’s Ace EVs rolled out to meet the media this morning in South Australia. With a range of around 200 km (124 miles) and a carrying capacity of 500 kg (1,100 lb), the Ace Cargo is a simple, practical delivery vehicle its creators hope will hit the sweet spot early.

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Empa's low-cost FlexWork digital valve train uses up to 20% less fuel in testing

Full digital control over valve lift, opening and closing times for all valves, in a system ...

In this transitional period between the gasoline and electric ages, there’s still plenty of room, and plenty of motivation, for last-gasp improvements to the combustion engine – and a Swiss R&D facility says its electro-hydraulic, fully variable valve system is already delivering up to 20-percent fuel consumption reductions in testing.

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The best of Aussie-style off-road camping from the 2019 Australian 4×4 Outdoor Expo

Australia is nearly the size of the United States, but has less than a tenth of its population, mainly dotted around the perimeter. It’s a rough, rugged and beautiful country, and it offers some of the toughest and most rewarding camping on t… Continue reading The best of Aussie-style off-road camping from the 2019 Australian 4×4 Outdoor Expo

Review: Pocketalk translator puts 74 languages at your fingertips

The Pocketalk translator is a super-portable Babel fish of a device that allows you to speak to people in up to 74 different languages at the touch of a button. Weighing around 3.5 oz (100 g), it’s smaller and lighter than a smartphone to car… Continue reading Review: Pocketalk translator puts 74 languages at your fingertips

Acura moves to resurrect its performance sub-brand with new Type S Concept

Acura will be hitting The Quail this weekend with a concept designed to re-ignite some of the brand’s performance sedan credentials. The snazzy Type S Concept paves the way for an upcoming souped-up TLS Type S…
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Volkswagen delivers on its threat of a T-Roc convertible crossover

Perhaps in retaliation for the mean things people said about the brand after Dieselgate, Volkswagen has decided to inflict a convertible crossover on the motoring world with today’s release of the T-Roc Cabriolet…
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Video: Chris Birch puts your boring life in context aboard KTM 790 Adventure R Rally

Adventure motorcycles appeal to the spark of the swashbuckling cross-continental wanderer in all of us, and nothing stokes that fantasy quite like watching an enduro god like Chris Birch spank the daylights out of one in heart-rendingly gorge… Continue reading Video: Chris Birch puts your boring life in context aboard KTM 790 Adventure R Rally

Rezvani Tank X: Bulletproof urban war machine becomes the world's first 1,000-hp hyper-SUV

More than 1,000 hp makes the Rezvani Tank X the world's first hyper-SUV

Nobody this side of Howe & Howe knows how to overcompensate like the Rezvani team, and the new Tank X is so brutally macho that you’d need to be Dwayne Johnson to hang your arm out the window and look right. Starting at US$349,000, meet your new 1,000-horsepower off-road hyper-SUV.

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