We needed to blend portability with range Inner city congestion, rising parking charges, pedestrian-only zones and other measures to persuade folks to leave the car at home can seem a little... Read more
Xenon Light Motor Bike All those readers impressed with the All-Electric Lightcycle we looked at last year now have the chance to get one in their garage – and help the environment. Th... Read more
Our robots are well adapted to this environment Sweden’s Husqvarna Construction has announced that two of its remote-controlled demolition robots are to help with the massive clean-up... Read more
The spherical genius of the Hüttlin Kugelmotor The car is not going to disappear anytime soon and neither is the combustion engine, despite the inevitable rise in fuel prices. We have said i... Read more
The entire project has been hatched by 23-year-old Croatian automotive designer Mate Rimac The Frankfurt Motor Show opens this week and a number of new brands will be seen for the first time... Read more
The smallest electrical motor on the planet, at least according to Guinness World Records, is 200 nanometers. Granted, that’s a pretty small motor — after all, a single strand of... Read more
An electromagnetic three-phase motor, invented by EPFL’s Integrated Actuators Laboratory, will enable the watchmaking industry to build watches that are three times more efficient and that c... Read more
At the dawn of the millennium, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Piëch, who is today Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG, set his sights on creating a practical everyday use production car... Read more
Image via Wikipedia What worked for cars can work for trains: railway engines will soon be hybrid TAKE a car, add an electric motor and some batteries. Build in a special gearbox which combi... Read more
Image via Wikipedia THERE are many innovations turning up in the latest experimental and production electric cars, affecting everything from batteries to motors to control systems. The need... Read more
Image via Wikipedia “SMOOTH and quiet as an electric motor” is a phrase that has been used repeatedly to compliment gasoline and diesel engines that are especially well-mannered. As more hyb... Read more