Articles on Cars

Tokyo electric taxis to test battery-swapping service - Aug 27, 2009

Crave Better Place will test its battery-swapping service with electric cars used as taxis in Tokyo. A test at Better Place's automated battery-swapping station in Japan earlier this year. The project, ... Read story »

The world's cheapest car, the Nano, is all set to roll out by end 2010 - Mar 9, 2009

Blogs The Nano, which happens to be the world's cheapest car, is all set to roll out of the Tata Group's Rs2,000 crore (US$3.86 billion) Sanand plant in Gujarat, India, by the ... Read story »

Toyota plugs in to electric cars biz - Oct 22, 2009

Crave The Toyota FT-EVII is a new electric concept car based on the iQ platform. Toyota does away with a traditional steering wheel in favor of modern art. (Credit: Automotive News) ... Read story »

Relief for users with new iPods and older cars - Oct 17, 2008

Crave So, you just bought a new car that came with a built-in iPod cable. Great, right? Well, maybe not. Unfortunately, the cable is only compatible with the previous generation of iPod ... Read story »

Ford GT cruises the Internet - Jul 10, 2009

Crave I received this wireless mouse awhile ago, but as it comes in one of those clamshell packages that are impossible to open, I kind of ignored it until now. As ... Read story »

Smart Brabus equips the Electric Drive with USS Enterprise sound effects - Jun 15, 2009

Crave Are you tired of being run over by near-silent electric cars? No, us neither, but we've got good news for anyone who often finds himself or herself wandering into the ... Read story »

From China, with love: Its electric cars will head West in 2010 - Aug 25, 2009

Crave BYD's e6, its high-end all-electric car it plans to bring to the U.S. in small numbers next year. Chinese auto company BYD plans to bring an all-electric sedan in small ... Read story »

Microsoft at the heart of Formula 1: The Engine Control Unit (ECU) - Feb 22, 2008

Blogs There's a running joke, true or false, of Bill Gates commenting on the automobile industry in 1999: At the world's biggest (then) computer expo in 1999, Bill Gates reportedly compared the ... Read story »

Canon partners Brawn GP for Singapore F1 night race - Sep 18, 2009

Crave Brawn GP's cars will carry Canon's logo at the Singapore F1 night race. Current Formula One leader, Brawn GP, is partnering Canon for its next leg of the race to ... Read story »

F1's KERS system to be used on mainstream vehicles? - Aug 11, 2009

Crave Recently, British company Zytek Automotive Technology was revealed as the driving force behind the KERS power boost system used in McLaren-Mercedes' Formula 1 cars. In a rather cruel juxtaposition, the same ... Read story »

The New BMW Vision EfficientDynamics - Sep 2, 2009

Blogs Every new BMW is already fitted with EfficientDynamics, a list of checkmarks that ensures only cars that are fuel efficient and low emission pass through the gate. But recently, it unveiled ... Read story »

Coulomb unveils electric-car charging stations - Jul 23, 2008

Crave The city of San Jose, California, will be the first to test electric-car charging stations from start-up Coulomb Technologies. The company's products include 110-volt outlets that can be outfitted in public ... Read story »

Calculator helps prep car owners on cost for plug-in vehicles - Sep 15, 2009

Crave Project GetReady's calculator lets people configure variables and compare total cost of ownership for upcoming plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles. Automakers this week are showing off all manner of fuel-efficient ... Read story »

Aerial views of Singapore F1 street circuit - Sep 9, 2009

Features There's no need to jostle with the crowd when you can catch the night race in the comfort of one of the trackside hotels. We show you the best views to get and which is our favorite. Read story »

Scorpion sportscar would burn gasoline and hydrogen - Jun 9, 2008

Crave A Texas company is offering a glimpse of a high-end hydrogen-gasoline sportscar it hopes to sell by October. Rather than using fuel cells to power an electric motor, the Scorpion from ... Read story »

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