Crate engines are common in the auto world, giving rebuilders and restorers an easy way to replace a tired or blown engine with something new and more powerful. Recently, Ford and GM have extended that idea to electric crate motors, so you can replace the entire internal combustion drivetrain in your car or truck with factory built electric power. GM has shown a couple of … [Read more...]
White Motorcycle Concepts Puts a Hole in Conventional Aerodynamics
You're familiar with the idea of the electric skateboard chassis used for electric cars where the batteries and motors and everything else are down low and designers can put whatever they want on top. The same concept is at work here, sort of, with the White Motorcycle Concepts WMC250EV, designed in pursuit of the electric motorcycle land speed record. Motorcycles are not … [Read more...]
Omega 1 Internal Combustion Engine is Light, Powerful, Efficient and Clean
The Omega 1 from Astron Aerospace is a brand new internal combustion engine concept and I really mean brand new. When I first looked at the images, I couldn't figure out what was going on. It looked like some kind of stacked turbine, but it's not. Then I thought it was a rotary of some sort, but it's nothing like the rotaries we've seen before. It's pretty ingenious, but you … [Read more...]
How Do You Carry a Gallon of Electricity?
Was this ever you? A lonely figure walking on the side of the road gas can in hand after trying to stretch the tank just a bit too far? If you've been driving for any amount of time, especially before the era of smartphones, you've either seen it happen or experienced it yourself, but the internal combustion engine runs on liquid fuel, so all you need is enough to get you to … [Read more...]
Jetson ONE – an Electric Powered Aerial Recreational Vehicle is the Future You Were Waiting For
If you want to get the attention of vehicle enthusiasts of all types, you need to show them something new, doing what their current vehicles don't do and can't do, and the Jetson ONE from Jetson Aero just did. I'm not sure what to call it, but ARV (Aerial Recreational Vehicle) sounds about right and it just might mark the beginning of something big. We've all seen the … [Read more...]
Ducati Enters the Electric Motorcycle Race
In a move surprising to no one, Ducati will join the rapidly growing list of manufacturers developing electric motorcycles, using a racing first philosophy by becoming, starting from the 2023 season, the sole official supplier of motorcycles for the FIM Enel MotoE™ World Cup, the electric class of the MotoGP™ World Championship. This is a historic step for the Borgo Panigale … [Read more...]
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