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Introducing the First Vehicle Powered by Evaporation

See how the toy car works

Better Road Signs Could Save Bicycle Riders

Signs that say "Share the Road" with bicycles may have far less influence over motor vehicle driver behavior than would signs saying "Bicycles May Use Full Lane."  ...

Big Polluting Vehicles Roar Back with Low Gasoline Prices

But increased fuel efficiency may yet restrain pollution in the U.S.

Recall Shows That a Hack Attack on Car Controls Is a Credible Threat

After years of downplaying threats, carmakers are forced to admit that their vehicles are vulnerable to serious cybersecurity attacks

What CityLab Gets Wrong about EVs

How one error keeps tripping up analysis of electric vehicles

Future Flying Car Solves Parallel Parking Problem

Terrafugia’s latest car–plane mashup concept would cut the flying car learning curve

Electric Car Owners Struggle to Find a Charge

Which comes first: the electric car or the charger?

Electric Vehicles Drive to Back Up the Grid

Can electric cars provide reliable power to the U.S. grid?

Railways and Mass Transit Move People and Goods, 1915

Hyliion Takes Top Prize at National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition

Yesterday, Hyliion took home the grand prize at the Department of Energy’s National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition in Washington, DC.

New Rules Would Cut Pollution from Buses, Big Rigs

New EPA regulations for heavy duty vehicles could reduce fuel consumption by 24 percent

Railways and Mass Transit Move People and Goods, 1915 [Slide Show]

Inventions: 70 Years That Changed the World, 1845–1915

War and Automobile Advertising, 1915

Printed in Scientific American , This Week in World War I: June 5, 1915 Early in World War I violence came to the serene island of Tahiti in the Pacific when two German armored warships attacked Papeete, the capital of what is now called French Polynesia...

Inventions: 70 Years That Changed the World, 1845–1915 [Slide Show]

Google's Self-Driving Cars to Hit Roads, with Steering Wheels

The cars are set to be tested on public roads this summer, but they will have steering wheels and brakes, which is not what the company described a year ago

Cities Where It's Faster to Walk than Drive

Late last year I came across an article noting that traffic in downtown London was now moving at the same speed as that of a horse-drawn carriage, basically the state of traffic a full century ago...

Combing Through Causes Of The Amtrak Crash

A lack of capital investments for safety improvements or the speed of the driver could have caused the tragic derailment of Amtrak 188

Train Tragedies and Transformations

Derailments, fires and crashes continue as the U.S.’s rail infrastructure decays and technology solutions lie fallow

Broken Rails Are Leading Cause of Train Derailments

The cause of the Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia is under investigation, but broken rails and welds are more than twice as likely to cause train derailments than any other reason