Flying cars have a new name: Organic Resupply Busses, or ORBs, as the Air Force puts it. Late last year, the U.S. military branch announced a program called “Agility Prime” seeking to turn commercial advances with flying cars into military applications....
Volvo is building its own battery packs; the aim is to make them safer by having them integrate better into their vehicles. The automaker’s first EV, the XC40 Recharge, will be the first vehicle with a pack built by Volvo.In addition to creating the hardware,...
Lego adds to its growing lineup of realistic automotive Creator Expert kits with a new icon: the Fiat 500.Modeled after the 500F, which was produced from 1965 to 1973, the kit consists of 960 individual Lego brick pieces and is nine inches long when completed.The...
NEW YORK — Rocker Billy Idol is the face of an anti-idling campaign launched Thursday in New York City. “Billy never idles, so why should you?” the ’80s MTV star growls in a public service announcement intended to shame New Yorkers into shutting the engine off....
If you’re going to drive something absurd, why not go all the way and put yourself behind the wheel of one the most colossally irrational vehicles available? If that’s really your thing, look to the redesigned BMW X5 M. It makes hardly any sense at all....
