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Business Malady #1: The Waiting Game

There's a game called the Waiting Game that works like this: you sit on the sidelines, waiting for everyone else to go first. And then you skip a turn. Or a hundred turns. And before you know it, the game's over. Everyone else is ...READ»

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Future Farmers Feed on Detroit's Vegetative State

The collapse of the auto industry has done a number on Detroit. Laid-off workers seem to continuously multiply. Abandoned houses line many city blocks. But with the destruction of one industry comes the opportunity for another one ...READ»

200 mpg XR3 Trike Ready for Production--It's What the Aptera Should've Been

The XR3 vehicle has been in development for years, but it's now ready to go into mainstream production. And almost as important as its 200 mpg hybrid drive system, the trike boasts sleek design lines. It is, in fact, the shape the ...READ»

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Spira's Floating Foam Car: The Most Creative Automotive X Prize Entry?

Plenty of respected car companies--Tesla, Aptera, and Tata Motors among them--have announced their intentions to compete for the Automotive X PRIZE,  but the Spira foam car may beat them all in the creativity department. ...READ»

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Full List of Automotive X PRIZE Teams Released, Includes Aptera, Tesla, Tata

Tesla, Aptera, and Tata Motors announced their intentions to compete for the Automotive X PRIZE long ago, but now the Foundation that awards the prize has released the full list of 111 registrants (pdf, right click to save) for the ...READ»

Is $2.4 Billion For Obama's Electric Cars Plan Enough?

During a visit to the Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center in California yesterday, President Obama addressed how the $2.4 billion outlined in the stimulus fund to get more electric vehicles on the road is going to be spent. ...READ»

Is It a Car, a Plane? No It's the Terrafugia Transition, a Bit of Both

Now we can all look forward to a near future where sidewalks are replaced with conveyor belts and robot maids bring us nicely chilled cocktails as we relax after work and all that sci-fi like stuff...because someone's gone and built ...READ»

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First Aptera Electric Cars Roll Out: Vehicle of the Future?

Electric cars have gotta be the way of the future with their clean emission-free engines...but are they all going to look as strange as the tricycle-wheeled Aptera? The first pre-production vehicles rolled out recently, and the ...READ»