Posts Tagged ‘concept’
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
Ford’s Fabulous Fusion Hybrid
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Alright, I admit it. I have new-car envy.
As the owner of an 18 year-old two-seat roadster, I get this way when I get behind the wheel of a brand new sedan.
Such was the case last weekend when Ford handed me the keys and invited me to drive their new Fusion Hybrid from LA to San [...]
Tags: auto, car, Chevy, concept, CPM, Edge, EV, Flex, Ford, fusion, GM, Honda, hybrid, Malibu, mpg, scanguage, Sirius, Volt
2,757 miles per gallon?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
Sound impossible? Not if you’re an Eco Marathoner.
Congratulations go out to the student-led Alerion Supermileage team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada for achieving the fuel milestone and winning the Grand Prize during the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition pitting student-built, fuel-efficient prototype vehicle achieves against each other to travel the farthest distance using [...]
Tags: Alerion, biomass, car, concept, cool, diesel, eco, fuel, fuel_cell, hydrogen, Laval, LPG, marathon, Matt_Kelly, mpg, prototype, Purdue, Shell, solar, UCLA
Art Car sculptor Tom Kennedy drowns at age 48
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
San Francisco artist Tom Kennedy, who helped popularize the fringe Art Car movement, drowned April 12 while body-surfing off San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.
Kennedy was the genius behind dozens of vehicles turned into original creations, including the “One-Eyed Wonder,” a Ford Ranger with a giant eyeball turret with a cannon that shot Twinkies and “Ripper the [...]
Tags: ArtCar_Fest, art_car, ben_and_Jerry's, Burning_Man, concept, cool, Finmobile, Ripper, Tom_kennedy, Topsy_Turvy
What’s Nu at Hyundai?
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
What has gull-wing doors, a hybrid drivetrain and Touchsense technology? The all new Hyundai Nuvis, the eleventh signature concept car to be designed at the company’s California Design Center in Irvine, Calif.
The vehicle, unveiled at this week’s New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), can be driven in gasoline-engine-only mode or all-electric mode, courtesy of its [...]
Tags: auto, battery, car, concept, cool, EV, hybrid, Hyundai, Matt Kelly, Nuvis, NYIAS