Autopia
Planes, Trains, Automobiles and the Future of Transportation
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found about 46 hours ago by Chuck Squatriglia
Looks like the Cygnet, which nothing more than a reworked Toyota iQ wearing an Aston Martin badge, is headed to the United States. Aston Martin’s been hinting for awhile now that it would build the crazy mashup. It always made sense for the...
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found about 45 hours ago by Chuck Squatriglia
Matt Dieckmann believed the future is electric, and he died hoping to prove it. Dieckmann, the 29-year-old founder of Electric Race Bikes, was killed Monday following a collision with a car in his hometown of Santa Rosa, California. He reportedly...
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found about 44 hours ago by Jeremy Hart
Editor’s note: Jeremy Hart, an occasional contributor to Wired.com, is driving around the world with a few mates in a pair of Ford Fiestas. He’s filing occasional reports from the road. The Wild West is still wild. As we pull into Scottsdale,...
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found about 22 hours ago by Keith Barry
We’re jealous of the folks who get to drive the Zerotracer. It’s a sporty two-seat enclosed motorcycle that weighs less than 1,400 lbs, can do 0-100 km/hr (62 mph) in less than 4.5 seconds and has a top speed of 150 mph. The Oerlikon Solar...
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found about 20 hours ago by Chuck Squatriglia
Small but interesting nugget of news out of Ford, which says it will use a liquid-cooled and heated battery in the Ford Focus Electric we’ll see late next year. Ford is still developing the car, but the prototype we drove had a 23 kilowatt-hour...
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found about 5 hours ago by Jason Paur
The organizers of the United States Grand Prix have unveiled the design of the all new track in Austin, Texas. The Formula 1 circuit will host the USGP beginning in 2012 and is scheduled to continue until 2021. The new purpose built race course is...
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found about 3 hours ago by Jalopnik
Craig Henderson drove 1,478 miles from from Blaine, Washington to Mexico without stopping to refuel, burning just 12.4 gallons of diesel for a stunning 119.1 mpg. And he did it in a car he originally designed in 1984. Henderson rolled into Chula...
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found about 1 hour ago by Jason Kambitsis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is on a mission to help create a transportation system that makes us fitter, not fatter The agency, which promotes and protects public health and safety, is pushing active transportation systems in a...
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