Big bus

Future road train

The driver of the first car drives, the following cars copy his/her actions and moves autonomously.

Straddling Bus

Think about it. A bus which allows other cars to pass under it and can be deployed relatively fast (as compare with building subway) and flexible enough to run on most roads. This is China's huge bus, 4.5 m wide and 6m high.

A very Efficient Ocean-going vessel - unlike anything you have seen before

The title says it all.

Researchers Roll Out Energy Generating Roads

via inhabitat

Engineers at Innowattech in Israel recently created a new type of road that generates electricity as vehicles pass over it! The supercharged surface is embedded with piezoelectric crystals, which transform kinetic energy from passing vehicles into an electrical current.

Physics tells us that energy is conserved. So my question is where does the energy come from? OK, I know the answer, the energy comes from the cars traveling on the road.

Before committing to such a project, one must ask if the additional energy used by cars traveling on such road are energy that would have been lost anyway, or it is an additional load. If it is the latter, I would say it is not a project worth continuing. Thermodynamic laws dictate that there will be energy lost in transformation!

Human-power Argmented Hybrid Car

Yesterday, I blogged about an ugly human-power argmented Solar Hybrid car. Today, I can show you a beautiful rendering. While this is not a solar car (why not?), inside this concept car, is

an array of exercise equipment, which includes a stepping machine, rowing machine, bench press, pull up simulator and arm weights!

The battery of the car can be charged by these exercise equipments, cool!



More here.

The prototype is ugly, but the concept is great

Human-power argmented solar hybrid car:



How will that compare with an electric-assisted bike, I wonder?

Couple's tricycle

via UberReview

Love to have one of these at a more reasonable price than the asked $2700.