Transonic's goal: a car engine that gets 100 miles per gallon
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Here's a good rhyme to remember Transonic by: high compression fuel injection.
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DETROIT -- From its diesel-electric hybrid powertrain to its advanced safety features, the Mercury Meta One concept is one of the most technically advanced vehicles Ford Motor Co.
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The automaker is making a big, bold bet on fuel-cell technology.
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Two cheap and relatively simple car modifications can help you gain a couple miles to the gallon.
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A device that turns heat to sound and sound to electricity could power spacecraft.
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In March, NASA (news - web sites) launched an experimental jet that reached a record-setting speed of about 5,000 mph. Now researchers want to leave that milestone in the dust.
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There's a $10 million prize waiting for the team that builds a super-green, ultra-efficient vehicle. Start your engines, it's the race to build the 100-mpg car.
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The revs you can use in a racing engine are directly linked to the quality of the combustion. At Monza tomorrow, this will be crucial. Elfâs engineers will be aiding the Renault F1 Team.
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General Motors' latest hydrogen car prototype is a car unlike any other and a glimpse of a possible, very different, automotive future.
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A car that can go 80 miles on a gallon of renewable fuel such as soy and canola would seem like an ideal solution to oil prices bumping around historic highs of $50 a barrel.
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Record-high oil prices might seem like bad news for the auto industry. But one European manufacturer plans to make a type of car unaffected by &#36;50-a-barrel crude &#151; cars that run on compressed air.
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An engine accessory coming out next month claims to increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions by 85 percent. In Autopia.
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The experimental scramjet engine is one that researchers hope will lead to super-high speed flight.
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New vehicles are expected to set records for average gas mileage in 2007, driven by improved technology and demand for fuel-efficient vehicles, the government reported.
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Accelerating from 0 to 60, then slowing down for a stop light is no problem for an ordinary automobile. But if you were piloting a rocketship, it wouldn't be so easy. Most rocket engines are designed to burn full-on or full-off with no in-between. And that can be a problem--namely, how do you land this thing?
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By Nash, Steve  Biofuel's the thing, the new universal solvent, the energy elixir, the great wet hope. Your next car-or maybe the one after- could run on corn, or soybeans, or old pizza boxes.
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A new generation of car technologies promises to add more fun and functionality to motoring.