Outlined in a recent JapanToday report, JFE Engineering claimed to have produced a quick charger which can replenish 50 percent of an EV’s battery level in just three minutes. The company also claims the system could recharge up to 70 percent in just five minutes.
JFE Engineering says it is pursuing EV charge times that would [...]
Renault has revealed its latest concept in the form of the DeZir, a project lead by new design boss Laurens van den Acker - the man responsible for Mazda’s soon-to-be-retired ‘Nagare’ design language.
While the casual observer might spot a little Koenigsegg in its profile and a touch of Audi R8 in that silver blade, van [...]
Bugatti Veyron reclaims title of world’s fastest production car with new Super Sport version.
Bugatti has set a new land speed record for production cars with an even faster version of its $3.5 million Veyron supercar.
The French marque’s Veyron 16.4 Super Sport clocked an average top speed of 431km/h at parent company Volkswagen’s Ehra-Lessien proving ground [...]
New research by national insurer AAMI shows that young male drivers aged 18 to 24 years-old are among those more likely to drive aggressively if their car is fitted with more safety features.
Surveying 2818 motorists across all age groups, around 16 percent (one-in-six) of respondents in the male 18-24 group saw additional safety features as [...]
So, a new vehicle market up 16.7 percent at the half-year mark, and on a trajectory to an all-time record high of 1.1 million sales… on those numbers, surely, everyone’s a winner.
Well, no. Not all manufacturers are on the same gravy train. You see, any brand, and any model, that is short of 16.7 percent [...]
Teenage Tunisian designer Khalfi Oussama creates the most outlandish BMW since Bangle.
BMW has seen some rather odd looking cars roll off the production line over the past 10 years, but Khalfi Oussama’s new X9 off-roader concept coupe takes oddball Beemers to a whole new level.
The 18-year-old designer hasn’t offered any information about his concept that [...]
Small, zero-emission car building company, Riversimple, has begun touring its two-seat, hydrogen-powered car in Australia to raise awareness for possible production.
The Riversimple is an extremely light-weight (350kg), carbon-fibre bodied hydrogen car, that uses a 6kW Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies fuel cell and a 1kg hydrogen tank to power it along.
The car is said to be [...]
Powered by five-cylinder 2.5-litre turbocharged direct injection TFSI engine coupled to Audi’s trademark quattro four-wheel drive system, the TT RS is anything but slow.
In fact, it’s the most powerful TT Audi has ever built, but according to Buckingham based performance electronic experts Superchips it’s not quite fast enough.
After a detailed remap of the TT RS’s [...]
Victoria Police’s Melbourne Traffic Management Unit has launched a one-day attack on heavily-tinted cars, setting up a road block in Carlton today to nab offending motorists.
Dubbed Operation Clear View, the operation follows a number of recent collisions in the city involving vehicles with heavily-tinted windows.
According to Leading Senior Constable Steve Hillman, the Melbourne CBD has [...]
If you’ve been dead from the neck up this past week, it might come as something of a shock to learn Australia has a its 27th - and first female - Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
So, is Ms Gillard a closet drifter? Has she been busted at 160km/h in a 40 zone? Not so far as [...]
