(Continued from Part One) Ticket to Ride Teslas are not without their quirks and faults, even from the viewpoint of their most ardent supporters. Driving a Roadster is often likened to “playing a video game,” such is the detached, point-and-shoot quality of the direct steering and single gear transmission. And all but the earliest Roadsters sport round buttons in lieu of a gearshift,...
Feeling Green in La La Land I felt my geek cred slipping away as I stepped into the back of the taxi. My greenie cred withered along with it as I settled into the back seat and directed my driver to a restaurant in Marina del Ray. Here I was on my way to have dinner with owners of some of the highest tech, lowest emissions sports cars in the world, and how was I getting there? By way of...
Noah K. tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! What's Tesla going to unveil next week in LA? And what can Super Bowl commercials add to the tech rumor mill? Tesla Unveiling Model X Electric Car Super Bowl Commercials to Hint at New Tech? Be sure to check out Rumor Roundup every Friday at 5 PM PST on the Revision 3 TechnoBuffalo channel. [r3_gamefly]
One of the most peculiar little urban electric vehicles is headed for production. The Dr. Seuss-like Hiriko, which means “urban” in the Basque language, is an electric vehicle that was conceived in Northern Spain and given life by MIT investors, private backing and numerous government loans. Unlike its rival, the Smart fourtwo, the Hiriko uses its Transformers DNA to fold up, wheel-to-...
Now it’s Kia’s turn to fire off a new EV in a market that is rolling faster than the Indiana Jones boulder. The Kia Ray EV will be Korea’s first production electric vehicle, but there are currently no plans to release one stateside. Recently we saw the Ford Focus Electric with its 100 mile range per charge and 3-4-hour battery charge time. The front-wheel-drive Kia Ray EV is slated for...
Up until the release of the highly intuitive Cadillac Cue driver user interface, automobile dashboard technology had been quite lackluster. Resistive screens, reliance on too many menus, and limited compatibility with peripherals are a few primary illnesses that have been plaguing the auto industry for years. But as the latest technology continues to barrel toward the automotive...