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This plug-in vehicle shoots for the moon (rover)

With no time on its hands for promotional appearances at glitzy European autoshows, one of America's most advanced electric vehicles has been busy being put through its paces on the torturous terrain found at Black Point Lava Flow in Arizona. The Lunar Electric Rover (LER) has spent the last couple weeks wandering about this wasteland simulating a search for lost crew members in a trial that's putting the modern plug-in electric car architecture to the test. Unlike the dune buggy-like moon rovers of yore, the Ford Ranger-sized LER ... Read more →

Blast from the Past: NASA's Stirling-powered AMC Spirit Jeremy Korzeniewski

Over the last few months, Segway-inventor Dean Kamen has made headlines for installing a Stirling engine in an older EV from Th!nk to create an extended-range electric vehicle. Interestingly, ...

Newest electric car to come from... NASA? Jeremy Korzeniewski

NASA has been testing its latest rover that it hopes will shuttle astronauts around on the surface of the moon when the agency heads back around 2020. Initial testing is taking place in the ...

VIDEO: NASA's catalytic converter could reduce pollution by 30% Lascelles Linton

Tech Watch is a show about how NASA applies its space-based research to help solve Earth-bound problems. In the segment we've pasted after the jump, we learn about technology originally developed for ...

Video: In-wheel electric motors on robotic legs Lascelles Linton

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/NASA_is_making_anime_spider_robot_with_videos'; Want to take the in-wheel electric motor concept cars like iReal or Pivo off roading? NASA is developing ...

NASA's "Prius of Space" goes 5,500 mph on only 15 gallons of fuel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

How fast would a Prius need to be traveling in order to launch itself into orbit? Really, really fast. Although NASA currently has no plans of attaching rockets to a Toyota any time soon (as far as we know), they will soon be sending a hybrid spacecraft into space. The Prius has a gasoline engine ...

NASA considering sending new vehicles to the moon 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

So far, all of the rovers that NASA has sent to the moon have been of the unpressurized variety, meaning that the astronauts are required to be inside their spacesuits. It looks like NASA is considering changing that with concepts of their next moon-bound rover. Described as a moving habitat, the ...

NASA likes it hot, develops new extreme-heatproof processors 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

NASA has developed a new processor which is capable of sustained use in extremely hot conditions. How hot? Only about 500 degrees... Celsius! While I immediately thought of the extreme overclocking potential, NASA has more realistic and admirable goals in mind: NASA believes that this breakthrough, ...

The Pipistrel Virus: a 50 MPG flying car? Uh, no 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

So, here we have another attempt at the flying car, except this time the winner gets money from NASA. While the chances that the average consumer will be able to pull into their nearest Ford dealership and hand over a down payment for the Pipistrel Virus, the fact that NASA is involved lends a bit ...

NASA and Boeing announce the first flight of the X-48B Blended Wing Body 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Developed by Boeing with participation from NASA and built in England by Cranfield Aerospace Ltd, the X-48B was given its first flight tests yesterday, which it seems to have passed. The 500 pound "flying wing", which sports a 21 foot wingspan, was flown remotely by a pilot on the ground. The ...

NASA developing nanobattery 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Battery technology has come a long way. Lead acid was the best that we had for a good long while, which is why it sees use in nearly every automobile sold in the world. Now, we have the nickel based battery chemistries and the newest lithium based batteries which are expected to allow the final leap ...

Microbial fuel cells: The hits just keep on coming... now with poopy-power! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

You really wouldn't think that there would be so many ways of creating energy from a substance that supposedly had most of it's energy extracted through digestion... but, in addition to urine, we can make electricity from poop too! The secret is in the microbial bacteria. NASA is working on a ...

NASA: arctic ice melting faster than before 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

NASA recenty released two studies that show Arctic ice shrinking at a more rapid pace than previously thought. The first study was conducted by a team of scientists lead by Joey Comiso from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. They found that sea ice melted at about 6 percent in each of the last ...

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