Archive for the 'Futuristic Concepts' Category

Car that runs on water

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

A UK company set up by Russian scientists called OM Energy claim to be on the brink of inventing a car that would use a combination of hydrogen (extracted from water) and gasoline to create a “Super-Fuel”, thus dispensing with the need to be wholly dependent on gasoline. The breakthrough is the electro hydrogen generator [...]

Fact or Science Fiction

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

A car that give 8,000 (eight thousand) MPG. A British inventor unveils the world’s most fuel-efficient vehicle, a three-wheel “TeamGreen” car capable of doing 8,000 miles to the gallon. Source: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/

X1: Formula 1 type EV

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

The X1 looks every bit the Formula 1 car you would find at any Grand Prix venue. The main differences, its has seats for two passengers, runs solely on lithium-ions battery cells, range 100 miles and takes 4.5 hours to recharge and it only cost $100,000. Ian Wright, a 50-year-old entrepreneur from New Zealand, thinks [...]

Is it a car or a plane, no its a caroplane!

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Carl Dietrich, MIT doctoral candidate in aeronautics and chief executive of Terrafugia, is working on a new hybrid car-plane concept based just like the one in the cartoon The Jetsons. The working prototype has been dubbed Transitions and will not be ready for about two years. This caroplane will use super-unleaded gasoline and have a [...]

Toyota lines up futuristic concept cars

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Ever wonder when you could go out and buy a car that looks like it just stepped out of the movie iRobot, look no futher the future is here. Toyota has about nine concepts lined up. The PM (Personal Mobility Vehicle) is just one of them. Cutting-edge vehicle-to-vehicle communications technologies are employed under the concept [...]