“You heard it coming, first came a thunderous boom and then the red earth shook hard, everything shook!” said Sandra Voskuhl, who for the past 76 years has lived in the rural town of Crescent, one of the boom towns of the fracking craze, which until recently has resulted in a rejuvenation of the area. But now the local residents may be about to count the cost.
The relatively unknown non-profit International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) was actually trying to prove that diesel vehicles could be clean, but didn’t realise that it would uncover what is revealing itself to be the next great scandal in the automotive industry.
The silence around Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond has been deafening since they inked the deal with Amazon to make 136 episodes of a new motoring show with Amazon Prime earlier this year. However, a contributor with BuzzFeed has uncovered a trademark application by Clarkson’s lawyers, Olswang, filed two weeks before the terrible trio committed to the £160 million contract with Amazon.
Part race car, part motorcycle, but fully barmy is probably the best way to describe the latest offering from those whacky folks over at Honda where someone in the design department obviously took the memo about downsizing just a tad too seriously. After a very short teaser campaign, Honda has pulled the wraps off their latest little offering, the diminutive Project 2&4, a vehicle obviously designed to get into the market niche currently dominated by the likes of the Caterham 620R and the Ariel Atom, which incidentally also has a Honda power plant, albeit from their car division.
Our Philippine correspondent, HAROLD, was caught in the massive jam in Manila last Tuesday. He recounts his experience and offers a solution or two…
Solar cars are usually funny-looking inventions that either look like they were thrown together by a mad scientist or they had popped out of a Jetsons cartoon, but EVX Ventures’ solar-powered car looks almost…cool. The technology startup from Melbourne claims that the car can run on Sun power and store energy for periods when the Sun don’t shine, which means that it can run in perpetuity on renewable energy…hence the name, The Immortus.