Category: Car stuff
Google nearly bought Tesla Motors in 2013
New revelations have emerged about how Google was on the verge of acquiring electric car company Tesla in 2013. The news was broken by Bloomberg, which hosts an excerpt from a new book on Tesla. Apparently in 2013, the company was nearing bankruptcy and not selling any cars - so it had to take a…
Uber offers free rides to drunk drivers
If you're known for being a controversial but convenient company, what can you do to buy some free positive publicity? Uber's clever PR people made this kiosk, which analyses the breath of Toronto drinkers - and if they're too pissed to drive, will order them a free ride home. Whilst presumably there are no plans…
Leaked photos. McLaren set to launch ‘affordable’ supercar at New York motor show
Luxury British car brand McLaren has (albeit unofficially) revealed its latest super car, the 570S Coupé, ahead of the New York motor show which starts tomorrow (April 1st). A member of McLaren's entry-level Sports Series family, it is the most affordable model in McLaren's line up but will still set you back a cool £130,000!…
VW invests in solid state battery technology for super long range electric cars
Above: a VW hybrid, the XL1. New solid state technology could mean that we see electric versions of VW vehicles with 400 mile plus range One of the disappointments of electric cars is that they need to be recharged a lot - not great when you consider the lack of car charging points around the…
WATCH: Jaguar XF high-wire world record
Jaguar yesterday pulled off a new world record as part of a promotional stunt for its latest car. Check out the video above to see stuntman Jim Dowdall pilot the car across a high wire, suspended above one of the docks above Canary Wharf.
The Ford S-Max will read road signs to limit your speed
How about this for a space age technology? Ford's latest S-Max will have a feature you can enable that will automatically prevent you from breaking the speed limit - so you don't accidentally end up with points on your license. What's really clever is how it works. Rather than read the data from a map…
Now you can control a Tesla car with an Android Wear watch
Check out the above video from developers ELEK Software, which has developed an Android Wear app for controlling the elite electric car. Apparently it took only four weeks to get from a prototype to the demo video above. What the app enables you to do is see how much range your car has left, as…
Elon Musk promises to end Tesla “range anxiety” on Thursday
Hmmmmmm. No, that's not an impression of a combustion engine, but the sound of some pretty intense scepticism towards Elon Musk's latest Twitter pronouncement. The billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors has promised a software update that will fix "range anxiety" on his electric car range. Range anxiety is, of course, the nagging feeling at the…
Old man Jay Leno wants to crap on the environment to make sure 100 year old cars can still run
Imagine if computer technology was being held back by the need to include a 3.5" floppy disk drive on all of the latest computers. Hey - how are Macbook Air users going to exchange Cardfile data without a floppy drive? You'd think I was insane, right? Which is why it is bizarre to see this…
Is Apple REALLY building a Car?
The craziest rumour doing the rounds at the moment isn't about the Samsung Galaxy S6 or the HTC One M9, but is centred on Apple. The biggest company in the world, the likes of Reuters is claiming, is working on building a self-driving, electric car. That's right - a whole car. But are these rumours…
