from FutureCars In brief: London-based designer Omar Sagiv has created a solar car design reminiscent of a Sea Ray. The word Unlike many of the science-fair project cars that appear as solar cars of the future, but look more like something a 10th grader dreamed up in a desperate weekend before the assignment was due, the [...]
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SPV Solar Car Concept Goes Beyond the 21st Century
February 16th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Concept Cars, EV Cars 
Tags: Omar Sagiv, Solar car, Solar panel, Solar vehicle, SPV, SPV GmbH 
No Comments »Goldfish eFUSION All Electric Boat Wins 2012 Boat of the Year Innovation Award
February 15th, 2012 Aaron Turpen from FutureCars In brief: The Goldfish 23 eFUSION, powered by an electric propulsion system, won the innovation award category of the 2012 European Powerboat of the Year award at the Dusseldorf Boat Show. The word The Goldfish 23 foot eFUSION tender recently achieved a top speed of 47 knots (which it achieves in 10 seconds) during [...]
Posted in Alternative Vehicles, Electric Car Tags: Dusseldorf Boat Show, Electric vehicle, Goldfish, Norway 1 Comment »
Tesla Unveils Model X Concept Crossover
February 11th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk unveiled the real world concept version of the Model X, a fully electric crossover the company says will enter production next year. Pre-orders for the car are being accepted now and the X has some compelling features that will likely draw a lot of attention – and dollars – for [...]
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Solaris Solar Car Concept
February 8th, 2012 Aaron Turpen Most of the time, solar cars are worth at least a blurb in the press and then get ignored. They are sort of the nerdy, socially inept cousin at the family reunion picnic of alternative fuels. Once in a while, though, despite their general impracticality, solar car concepts manage to look really cool – at [...]
MIT’s Folding Concept Car, the Hiriko
January 31st, 2012 Aaron Turpen Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a new urban commuter car that “folds” up for storage, making it much easier to park out of the way, taking up about the same horizontal space as a bicycle. The car, called the Hiriko, has a chance of actually getting built and tested in [...]
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