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French company Gaussin is pushing hard on hydrogen-based long-haul trucking, playing up hydrogen’s excellent range figures and quick refuelling times as a benefit over heavy, slow-charging batteries. It’s developing a flexible skateboard chassis you ca… Continue reading Gaussin to take world’s first hydrogen race truck to the Dakar in 2022
The extraordinary Crighton CR700W extracts an incredible 220 horsepower from a 690cc twin-rotor Wankel engine, and weighs just 129.5 kg (285.5 lb) dry for a MotoGP-level power-to-weight ratio. Its maker believes it could be the final word in combustion… Continue reading Wild twin-Wankel 690cc motorcycle makes 220 hp at 129.5 kg
[Andy]’s robot is an autonomous RC car, and he shares the localization algorithm he developed to help the car keep track of itself while it zips crazily around an indoor …read more Continue reading Fast Indoor Robot Watches Ceiling Lights, Instead of the Road
Cupra is preparing to get dirty in as clean a way as possible. Not only is its all-new Tavascan Extreme E Concept motivated by pure electric power, but it incorporates components and solutions designed to be flexible, adaptable and sustainable. Flax-fi… Continue reading Flax-skinned Cupra off-road e-racer has hardened look, softened impact
Pushing the boundaries of electrified powertrain technology, Audi has developed the range-extended electric rally car it will run in Dakar 2022. The 671-hp RS Q e-tron will launch forward on dual electric axles, using a high-efficiency turbo engine-gen… Continue reading Electrified Audi RS Q e-tron rally car prepares to disrupt Dakar
Few things punish bicycle wheels harder than world championship-level downhill mountain bike racing, so France’s Nawa Technologies has signed up with a top-level downhill team to prove the strength of its nanotube-reinforced carbon fiber.Continue Readi… Continue reading “Nano-velcro” enhanced carbon rims withstand a pounding in MTB racing
Formula E-style electric racing is set to hit the water with a new E1 series due to kick off in 2023. Today we get our first look at the “Racebird” powerboat design, and these high-speed hydrofoiling racers will certainly make for exciting watching.Con… Continue reading Futuristic hydrofoiling electric speedboats to face off in E1 Series
Jaguar Classic continues reciting the alphabet backwards, getting to work on a C-type Continuation car to join the E-type and D-type Continuations it released in years past. Its latest project brings back the edgeless, roofless beauty of the 1953 Le Ma… Continue reading Jaguar revisits its golden age once again with the C-type Continuation
Car racing is quickly evolving to embrace new technologies through series like Formula E and Extreme E. It may even find a home on the Moon in the near future. French startup MACA is looking to add flying cars to the list of emerging technologies activ… Continue reading Hydrogen-electric flying car looks to take F1 racing airborne
If you desire a sim gaming rig, there are off-the-shelf options up and down the market that stretch as high as your budget can afford. Some choose to eschew this route, however and build their own from scratch. Few people go quite so far as [Popicasa POPStuDio], however.
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