Posts Tagged ‘speed’
Pursu-ing Mobility, 3-wheels at a time
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under EV, alternative transportation
This past week while chatting with The Courage Group’s urban planner Ray Gordon, who writes a blog Courageous Futures, I had the good fortune to meet Howard Levine, founder and COO of Persu Mobility. Formerly Venture Vehicles, the company is working on producing a PHEV, similar to the U.K.’s Carver, yet using a totally new [...]
Tags: 3_Wheeler, battery, Carver, cool, Courageous, drag_coefficient, DVC, Dynamic_Vehicle_Control, EV, HOV, Howard_Levine, motorcycle, mpg, mph, Persu, PHEV, Ray_Gordon, speed, stimulus, ULV, Venture_Vehicles
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