Archive for the ‘concept’ Category
Test Drive the Future: Toyota FCHV-adv
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, concept, event, hydrogen, infrastructure
In our second “Test Drive the Future” installment, Matt McClory, Senior Engineer from Toyota introduces us to the Toyota FCHV-adv at the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica, which got over 430 miles on a single tank of hydrogen.
In addition to advanced fuel cell technology, the vehicle has an advanced AC system based on Co2 [...]
Tags: Alt Car Expo, CAFCP, FCHV, fuel cell, hydrogen, Toyota
CAFCP Launches “Test Drive the Future”
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, biofuel, concept, hydrogen, infrastructure
This month, the California Fuel Cell Partnership unveiled a new campaign titled, “Test Drive the Future with Matt Kelly,” a series of monthly installments on the non-profit’s YouTube channel highlighting virtual test drive’s of hydrogen powered vehicles.
In the first installment, Dave Barthmuss, GM’s Western Region Communications director, introduced me to the Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell [...]
Tags: Alt Car Expo, CAFCP, Dave Barthmuss, FCHV, fuel_cell, GM, hydrogen, Project Driveway
Solo or Duo, Antro aims to give you a workout
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation, biofuel, concept, hybrid
What weighs just 600lbs, reaches speeds of 80mph, gets 150 miles to the gallon and gives you a workout at the same time?
The Antro Solo, a hybrid solar- and gas-powered car from the Hungarian non-profit Antro.
Scheduled to arrive on european roadways in 2012 with a price tag of $18,000, the Solo can handle 10- to [...]
Chocolate as a fuel?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under alternative transportation, biofuel, concept
145 mph on chocolate?
My question is that milk or dark chocolate?
London scientists just unveiled what they hope will be one of the world’s fastest biofuel vehicles, powered by waste from chocolate factories and made partly from plant fibers.
The car “fuel” is vegetable oils and chocolate waste that has been turned into biofuel. The steering wheel [...]
Tags: auto, biofuel, cars, chocolate, cool, energy, environment, fast, fuel, Matt_Kelly, racing, speed, transportation, Warwick
To Infinity and beyond! Boeing’s new Waverider X-51 experimental aircraft
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under concept, flight
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s….the new Waverider X-51, an experimental aircraft that can fly more than six times faster than the speed of sound on ordinary jet fuel!
Bridging the gap between airplanes and rocketships, the Boeing-built , X-51 is a high-speed jet that stays airborne, in part, with lift generated by [...]
Tags: aircraft, Boeing, concept, cool, fly, hypersonic, jet, mach, NASA, plane, ramjet, rocket, rocketship, scramjet, speed, supersonic, Waverider, X-43, X-51