The Swedish automaker Koenigsegg has made a name for itself building supercars that go mind-bendingly fast, and suck down a lot of fuel. The newest Koenigsegg concept vehicle, the Quant, made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show recently, and it appears on track to break all sorts of records, just not the speed records [...]
If the podracing in StarWars I was tempered by the grace of the Greenbird’s land yacht design then you might have something that Mercede-Benz designers are saying in 2025 would be called Formula Zero. (Except, of course that we already have Formula Zero racing.)
In the Mercedes-Benz conceptual model the racer combines electric hub motors, an aero-efficient solar skin and a high-tech rigid sail. The idea, …
It started out as a Taiwanese entry in the Australian World Solar Challenge and was scaled up. “As [our team] has done quite well in the past 10 years at international solar car races — this year ranking second out of more than 50 cars at the WSC — we decided two years ago to broaden our advanced solar technology applications and make a car for the consumer market,” says team leader Ay Herchang. “At a time when carbon emission reduction and fighting global warming are top priorities of governments and people, a wholly solar-powered car would offer a good alternative for the green-minded.”
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