Automobiles

I spent about a month in the UK earlier this summer, and that meant I took a lot of train trips. I love riding trains: the feeling of endless possibility I get when I look at the departure boards, the countryside rolling by, the fantastic people-watching, the two-hour delay between Edinburgh and Manchester because a [...]

Of all the things to be leaking methane on Staten Island in New York City—corroded gas pipes, sewers, the Fresh Kills dump—who would have suspected the mail truck?

Smart cars that can save drivers' lives as well as fuel

Self-driving vehicles get new laws in California

It has been claimed (yet again) that Gustave Whitehead flew a powered, controlled airplane before the Wright brothers did

Even before I arrived at the annual “Dialogue” of the Breakthrough Institute, an Oakland, California, think tank that challenges mainstream environmental positions, I was arguing about it.

The trunk of a car, made of a new carbon composite, can also run LED lights and the dual use could help electric vehicles

Electric cars, no matter how sexy, still have a battery problem

Young physicists find the specs to keep a race car off the beaten track

After breaking the sound barrier of 1,223 kilometers per hour with Thrust SSC, a British team is building Bloodhound SSC to cross the 1,600-kph mark

The small prototypes lack steering wheels or pedals and are limited to a maximum speed of 25 mph