News Archives - March 2010

The 155mph bus without a fixed timetable or route

Buses have long suffered an image as dirty, slow and unreliable but that could change with the introduction of the Superbus, an all-electric vehicle capable of 155mph that turns up close to your home on request.

The car that gets 2,000 mpg

A super-efficient, petrol-engined car designed by students from Laval University in Quebec this week achieved a fuel efficiency of over 2,000mpg to win first place in the prototype class and overall grand prize in the Shell Eco-marathon competition.

The electric cars that talk to each other

City cars of the future will need to be small, clean, energy-efficient and, given the increasing number of vehicles, able to communicate with each other to make best use of limited road space.

New synthetic rubber will mean greener car tyres

Tyre manufacturer Goodyear hopes to dramatically reduce the 26 litres of oil it takes to make the average car tyre by introducing a new plant-derived substance called BioIsoprene, which can be made from renewable sources such as sugar cane.