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All Volvos to have Electric Power by 2019

July 8, 2017

There is a global rush to meet government mandated emissions and fuel efficiency targets that threaten to reshape the way that we power our vehicles, but it will take many years for those changes and improvements to work their way through the system. In the meantime, Volvo of Sweden has announced that from 2019 onwards, all new Volvos launched will be at least in part electric-powered. It is a move that the company describes as “an historic end” to the internal combustion engine; well, at least in Sweden, that is.

Tesla Model 3 is Fully Charged……we think

July 7, 2017

After what seems to be an interminable wait, the much anticipated Tesla Model 3 is now fully charged and supposedly with us, we think.

Announcements made by the company would indicate that the car is now in production and the first deliveries will be made on July 28th; however, in the same announcement, Tesla has acknowledged the rumour that had been circulating about the shortfall it is facing in manufacturing the 100 kilowatt battery packs.

We Need Car Horns Like THIS

June 26, 2017

There really should be a different car horn for different situations. But cars usually come with just the one – LOUD AND ANGRY. Youtuber and former NASA Engineer, Mark Rober, thought that that was too limiting and since he has the smarts for it, he gave his car horn an “increased vocabulary”. 

The MADNESS of Bottled Drinking Water

June 21, 2017

Last night I had a sort of epiphany, or an ‘aha! moment’ as Mary Barra would have us say. We were sitting around a restaurant table discussing global warming and the iced water I asked for came in a heavy glass bottle that had been imported all the way to Malaysia from Northern Italy.