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.
We have been writing about a proper flying car at Automology for some time. To put it simply, a flying car seems to capture our imagination in a way that no other mode of transport can. Now, out of Holland, comes the announcement that the PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) will be ready for delivery by the end of 2018.
Believe it or not, there IS a proper way to get out of (and into) a car. If you’re interested, we’ll add a boring instructional video at the bottom of this page to show you. But if you’re like us, then you get out of your car however you like to. Take a look at these GIFs of people getting out of the car…any of them ring a bell?
Mary Barra announcing the first mass-produced autonomous car…Our Automologist, MAC, still doesn’t want it.
In April of this year, the last living person from the 1800’s died. In her 117 years on this earth, she had watched the world change in some unbelievable ways and it made me wonder about the changes the oldest person from my generation would witness.
Denmark, a country that has prided itself for being at the forefront of renewable energy, is no longer in love with electric cars, and that is official. Data compiled by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) shows sales of electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrids, has fallen by a whopping 60.5% for the first quarter of this year, a rate of free-fall that must have bought a tear or two to the eyes of Elon Musk.
A new type of aggressive driver behaviour is occurring amongst electric car owners. Automologist MAC writes about this new phenomenon.
With all the talk about the need for civil society to swap to cars powered by green electricity, it would start to appear that there is an increasing rage amongst those who have already converted to electric-powered vehicles, particularly when it comes to charging them at the already overburdened charging station network.