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Royal College of Art creates sustainable auto concepts

Click on the image for more shots of RCA's Eco-Cars of the future To celebrate forty years in business, the Royal College of Art's fourteen graduates this year have undertaken the challenge of designing a future eco-friendly car for the 2008 Pilkington Automotive Vehicle Design award. Of course, some of the concepts are pretty far "out there," though others, like Sergio Loureiro Da Silva's Phoenix concept actually seem plausible. The Phoenix is a bit of a mixture of a motorcycle with sidecar and a normal four-wheeled automobile; it looks ... Read more →

Peugeot to designers: "Imagine a Pugeot for the megapolis of tomorrow" Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click on the image to enlarge Tomorrow usually just means tomorrow... as in the next day that you wake up. Sometimes, though, the word tomorrow takes on a slightly different meaning, as it does for ...

Video coverage on green technology at the New York Autoshow Jeremy Korzeniewski

Is it a good thing or a bad thing to say that going green has gone mainstream? I dunno myself. If the mainstream media continues to cover green technology, I guess that more and more consumers will ...

Six minute long video about the Eliica electric vehicle from Japan Jeremy Korzeniewski

You may have seen our previous coverage of the Eliica eight-wheeled electric vehicle from Japan. If not, perhaps you were introduced to the vehicle by the Discovery Channel, as it was frequently ...

A new agreement between Tata Motors and MDI bring the air-car closer to reality Jeremy Korzeniewski

We have shown you the air-car before, and you may have seen it on TV if you watched the Discovery Channel series, Future Car. If you did, you witnessed them erroneously refer to the possibility of ...

Future Cars on Discovery highlights fuels of the future 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I was pretty excited about the show "Future Cars" on Discovery show when I found out about it. And, thankfully, I have not been disappointed. I wrote about the show before it actually started, and we are now three weeks into the series. The last episode, number three, is of particular interest to ...

Futurecar report on the GM "Skateboard" car on YouTube 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Discovery channel has been running a four part series called FutureCar for the past few weeks and one of the segments focused on the GM Skateboard chassis that was first shown a few years back, featuring fuel cell power and complete by-wire controls. A variation of the Skateboard is used on the ...

MIT creates a foldable, stackable "City Car" 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ever go to a big city and wonder how in the world you were going to get around? This happens to me, as my wife and I make several trips to Chicago every year for weekend getaways. The problem is that there are tons of cars there, traffic snarls a lack of good places to park, unless you want to pay ...

Starting Feb. 7th - Future Cars on Discovery Channel 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I saw an interesting commercial the other day on Discovery Channel while I was watching Mythbusters. You do watch Mythbusters don't you? If not, check it out, it's one of my favorites. Anyway, I usually skip the commercials, but I left it alone this one time. Lucky for me, because I caught a glimpse ...


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