Posts Tagged ‘electric’

Austin’s Largest Public Art Installation, An Electric Sunflower Garden

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:19 By Ramya

Villages and woods are probably the only places in the world where greenery hasn’t become extinct yet.  Even these  are facing depletion these days. Considering this, the developers of a mixed-use urban village, Mueller in Austin, Texas wished to preserve the lush green surroundings barring its industrial feel. And that is how Austin got its [...]

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A Shift from Styling Cars to Redefining them!

Monday, July 13, 2009 18:18 By Ramya

Style, design and speed were the obsessions of car designers of yester years; the latest vogue seems futuristic and fictional- a driverless car! Mike and Maaike, an industrial design firm from San Francisco that was behind the creation of the Google Phone, has now created the ‘ATNMBL’ read as autonomobile. This self-directed seven-seated four-wheeler is [...]

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Transport TW: The Magnetic Super Car for Ultramodern Metropolitans

Friday, July 3, 2009 19:12 By Ramya

The span of advance of the metropolitans throughout the world is unstoppable and so is the requirement of technology to equal it. What concerns us is the impending destruction of the environment that comes with advance. In such a scenario, we aptly need something just like Harsha Vardhan’s Transport TW.

Transport TW, a super car still [...]

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Around the World in a Solar Impulse

Thursday, July 2, 2009 13:32 By Ramya

The round the globe balloon-traveler duo Swiss scientist-adventurer and pilot Bertrand Piccard and Briton Brian Jones are planning another pace-setting joy ride, but this time it would be the newly divulged HB-SIA aka ‘Solar Impulse’, an airplane powered by the sun. A decade after their first non-stop flight around the world in a hot air [...]

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Easy Glider, One Whacky Yet Novel Invention

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:41 By Saba

Agreed. The sight of it might seem unbelievable but fact is, the Easy Glider is all set to provide commuters with an all new travelling experience that is super safe too. Isn’t it the bane of modern times that every road in a metro or developing city is crammed with more and more traffic? And [...]

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Helios: The Eco-Car that Unfolds its Wings to Capture the Sun

Friday, November 7, 2008 17:48 By Ramya

‘Helios’ supposed to be the personification of the sun as per Greek mythology, seems to be the appropriate name given to the new concept car designed by Kim Gu-Han from  Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany which won the Best Use of Technology category at the latest Interior Motives Design Awards. It is an off-road electric solar powered [...]

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Legendary Rocker Turns His 1959 Mark IV Lincoln Continental into Green LincVolt!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:20 By Ramya

If you really love nature and want to protect it, you too can turn your old car green like Neil Young did. This legendary rocker who made a special appearance at the Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference keynote address has spent $100,000 on his 1959 Mark IV Lincoln Continental to turn it into an electric car with [...]

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Zero Emission Motors Launches a Mid-Range Electric Scooter

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:20 By Ramya

Fed up of driving through the crowded city roads in your car? Planning of switching to a two-wheeler? Volt Electric Scooter could just be the answer. This all electric scooter from Zero Emission Motors was first seen at the recent Kick Gas Festival. This scooter has all the trimmings that any regular two-wheeler would have [...]

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