Automobiles

Can the innovative car company survive long enough to profit from a growing market for electric vehicles?

Innovation and discovery as chronicled in past issues of Scientific American

Few petroleum-powered cars have ever surpassed 400 miles per hour. Now a group of students plans to do it in an electric vehicle

A look at the state of flight in 1913 from the archives of Scientific American

Watch the previous iteration of the Buckeye Bullet break 320 miles per hour

The new railroad terminal was heralded as the "Gateway to America's Greatest City" when it opened on February 1, 1913

Fueling cars and trucks with natural gas may help reduce oil dependence even more than electric cars

Google has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for permission to apparently conduct testing on, well, something

Morbidly obese individuals—those with a BMI of 40 and above—were 80 percent more likely to die in a car crash, according to a study published in Emergency Medical Journal

Federal guidelines will dictate that electric vehicles start making more noise at low speeds. David Biello reports

The only way to bring flying cars to the masses is to leave the flying to the car