Category: Vehicles
Clarion DriveEye – automatically record your car crash
Last week we featured the Black Eagle MD3000, a GPS unit with ‘black box’ functionality for recording any accidents that might happen involving a vehicle using it. Along similar lines is the Clarion DriveEye, which has just been released in Japan.
Thieves breaking into houses — to steal high-tech cars
Newsflash: even if your vehicle has a built-in immobilizer to prevent theft by hotwiring, you still have to protect the key. “Vehicles are being stolen through residential break and enters, where the suspect[s] enter the home and obtain the keys for the vehicle,” according to police in Toronto, Canada. Logically, you should lock your keys in a safe, and swallow the key to that. Then take the tube. [GT]
Vehicle anti-theft devices spur brazen break-ins, authorities say
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Enertia, the electric motorcycle for commuters
Solar-powered motorbike from SunRed
British steam car challenge
Enertia, the electric motorcycle for commuters
The Enertia Electric Motorcycle won’t replace your Harley – but it might replace your car. Designed for commuters, the Enertia has a top speed of 80kph and a range of 70km per charge, and recharges in three hours, so you could likely even nip home for lunch if you liked. It’s a zero emissions vehicle, and while the batteries aren’t terrific right now, they’re modular enough that it’s possible to upgrade just that component to improve the overall function. Standard model is $12,000, and the limited edition carbon fiber model is $15,000. [GT]
Enertia Electric Motorcycle via Kneeslider
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Nokia launches HF-300 speakerphone
Nokia has unveiled its first speakerphone, the HF-300, a detachable Bluetooth unit packing a speaker and microphone, as well as improved audio quality through Digital Signal Processing (DSP) – cancelling out excess noises and echoes.
Solar-powered motorbike from SunRed
Spanish motor-maker SunRed has revealed its concept idea for a solar-powered motorbike.
The snail-like clamshell shape gives the bike 25 square feet of solar panel coverage, which should give it a 12 mile range and a top speed of, er, 30 miles an hour.
British steam car challenge
The goal of the British steam car challenge is to create the world’s fastest car — using alternative fuels. Their aim is to reach 150 mph on British soil and then 200 mph at the Bonneville salt flats in Utah. Four LPG-powered boilers will feed the turbine engine with steam pressure, and the car will operate at total loss, consuming and expending the entire volume of water it carries for each run. If you want to contribute to this historic feat, you can support it for as little as £1 at the British Steam Car Appeal website. Britain needs YOU! [GT]
The Steam Car Challenge (viaCrave)
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MiniCat: a catamaran in a bag
What’s with all these boats in bags? A couple of days after we covered the Navigator III inflatable boat, now Firebox is selling a collapsible catamaran that packs down into a rucksack. It must be something in the water. Ahem.
Watery Brave? Try a Navigator III inflatable boat
Inflatable boats are just for kids playing in the sea, right? Wrong, apparently. I Want One Of Those is selling the Navigator III inflatable boat, which fits into a 73cm bag when not in use (or at least it claims to: good luck squeezing it back in there yourself).
Allergy free Ford Mondeo
Certified by the German TÜV Rhineland group, the “allergy-free” Ford Mondeo uses no chrome or nickel, is constructed with zero VOC adhesives and textiles that don’t harbour allergens, and has a high-tech air filter to ensure dust and pollen never get a foothold inside. The Focus, Ka, S-MAX and Galaxy are the only TÜV certified “allergy-free” vehicles on Earth (outside of Area 51). [GT]
Ford Mondeo (via Newlaunches)
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Fuelvapour 'Ale' runs on 'fumes' but makes 75% less of them
The Fuelvapour ‘Ale’ is a sporty three-wheeler that consumes 2.6 liters per hundred kilometers, accelerates to 100km in 5 seconds, and generates 75% less emissions because it runs on a gasoline gas instead of liquid, courtesy of increasing the gas:air ratio from 14.7: to 20:1, with cleaner burning results. It is classified legally as a motorcycle, and seats two in tandem. Future versions of the Ale will likely replace the vehicle’s fibreglass body on a tubular steel frame with one built from carbon fibre. Video after the jump. [GT]
