News Archives - February 2012

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an electric city car that is so manoeuvrable it can spin around its own centre and folds to fit into the tiniest parking spaces.

The three-quarters of British “students who travel to school by diesel-powered bus”:/blog/andrew-davis/2012/01/09/bus-madness
could soon have a healthy and environmentally-benign alternative way of arriving at lessons; a pedal-powered yellow school bus.

French cyclists have won the right to ride through red lights at certain road junctions. Cyclist groups have long argued that traffic lights exist to force car drivers to allow pedestrians to cross the road, regulate the flow of traffic and moderate speed – factors that apply differently, if at all, to cyclists.

The Fiat 500, a city car now ubiquitous in towns and cities the world over, will soon to be available in a five-door ‘large’ version. The details released by Fiat about the 500L are scant, but its measurements are 414cm by 178cm by 166cm high.

Spanish bicycle makers Orbea have launched a range of bicycles that can be adjusted in size as a child grows