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Greenpower Nationals (2012): the 3000mpg Goodwood race

Greenpower Nationals (2012): the 3000mpg Goodwood race

Rated 5 out of 55

Ollie Kew, 21 September 2012 09:00

In an effort to get the next generation of budding automotive engineers excited about economical cars, Goodwood motor racing circuit will once again play host to the Greenpower Finals next month. The event centres on a race between school teams competing in scratchbuilt eco-minded racing cars, with the capability to get close to the equivalent of 3000mpg. Just how economical ...

Gavin Green on the world’s first good electric car

Gavin Green on the world’s first good electric car

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Gavin Green, 09 August 2012 10:24

After more than 100 years of electric car dross, at last there’s a good one. The BMW i3, likely to go on sale late next year, is the first intelligently conceived electric car I have experienced. Rather than just a ‘normal’ car that is converted to run on electric power (step forward most EVs now on sale) or a ‘bespoke’ ...

How to run a Ford Transit Connect on sunshine

How to run a Ford Transit Connect on sunshine

Rated 4 out of 54

Greg Fountain, 08 January 2012 15:21

The new January 2012 issue of CAR Magazine has a free 32-page Green CAR supplment with it - and in it we chronicle how one Lincolnshire village runs a Ford Transit Connect on... sunshine. Long Sutton has what is claimed to be the greenest community in England. They reckon they create enough electricity from solar power to charge up and ...

Honda unveils the new 2012 Asimo robot

Honda unveils the new 2012 Asimo robot

Rated 3 out of 53

Tim Pollard, 08 November 2011 10:42

Honda has unveiled the new 2012 edition of the Asimo humanoid robot. And this one can move around without being controlled by an operator, says Honda. So Honda Asimo will soon be running the world? Don't mock. We worry that Honda's R&D types might have just such designs in the long run. They say, for now, that the 2012-spec Asimo ...

Why we've all got to retrain for the electric revolution

Why we've all got to retrain for the electric revolution

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Chris Chilton, 17 August 2010 10:37

Think you know what makes a car tick? I thought I did. Now I’m no engineer or even a particularly gifted mechanic, but I’ve stripped cars to naked shells, rebuilt engines from the bare block up, changed clutches, swapped head gaskets and generally fiddled with enough motors to vaguely keep up when some boffin on a car launch is explaining ...

Inside Toyota’s $15m driving simulator

Inside Toyota’s $15m driving simulator

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Phil McNamara, 24 November 2009 09:59

Toyota has let CAR inside its astonishing, $15m driving simulator, designed to research safer driving. You drive an actual Lexus LS460 around a virtual cityscape projected within a 7.1m-wide dome, which itself charges across an area the size of four tennis courts. Ten electric motors generating a combined 9387bhp power this baby. It’s Gran Turismo on the grandest scale. The ...

Star in a reasonably priced 'Green' car

Star in a reasonably priced 'Green' car

Rated 5 out of 55

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 21 September 2009 13:47

The new Jay Leno show is underway in the US and while it promises to be chockfull of comedy and the usual features that made Leno famous in the previous Late Night show, it also features a 1100ft practice track where celebs will compete for the fastest 'green car' lap time in an electric Ford Focus.  First up in the ...

Why Gordon Brown mustn't swallow electric car spin

Why Gordon Brown mustn't swallow electric car spin

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 04 May 2009 09:00

Gordon Brown can’t drive and there’s nothing wrong with that. But there’s plenty wrong with him preaching what sort of car we should drive. By 2020, says our prime minister, all new cars sold in Britain should be electric or hybrid cars. What’s more, in the recent budget, motorists were offered subsidies of up to £5,000 to buy electric or ...

Shocking safety in electric cars, by Gavin Green

Shocking safety in electric cars, by Gavin Green

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 24 June 2008 08:59

News that there will be more recharging points dotted around London in the expectation of a boom in electric cars is, in theory, welcome. For once, a government or council is partly financing our fuel rather than taxing it. I just wish there was an electric car currently worth buying. The current top-selling UK electric vehicle, the G-Wiz, is of ...

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