http://www.transport20.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:22:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Luxury Electric have used the 2008 Democratic National Convention as a platform to announce the company's intention to drive its fully electric prototype (a retrofitted Acura TL) across the United States in an effort to prove that fully electric vehicles will be practical for longer journeys as well as the ... http://www.transport20.com/electric-vehicle/luxury-electric-to-drive-a-long-range-electric-car-across-the-usa/ There's plenty of different things you can look at if you're trying to make a 100mpg, super-low-emissions passenger car - from alternative fuels like diesel, to hybrids, advanced engine technologies and even the replacement of the combustion engine altogether with battery-electrics. But Britain's Axon Automotive has taken another direction altogether, ... http://www.transport20.com/uncategorized/axon-announces-affordable-100mpg-carbon-composite-passenger-car/   You wouldn't read about it... Lotus have gone for a different type of 'green' by announcing an 'Eco Elise' made largely out of hemp... No need to check your calendar, it's not April 1. The theory behind this radical new approach is that Lotus feels too much "green" ... http://www.transport20.com/uncategorized/lotus-announces-hemp-based-eco-elise-a-new-type-of-green-car/ Six weeks after Mitsubishi announced it would show the i MiEV Sport show car at Tokyo, at the same time as releasing one image that made it look for all the world like a 21st century Goggomobile, more imagery has surfaced. We're pretty chuffed about this one because everything we ... http://www.transport20.com/electric-vehicle/mitsubishi-i-miev-sport-brutally-fast-electric-sports-car-prototype/ Until I saw images of the Yamaha Tesseract, the vehicle I'd been most looking forward to seeing at the Tokyo Motor Show was Toyota's i-REAL but now Yamaha's intriguing hybrid four-wheeled motorcycle really has wrested my attention amidst a plethora of other interesting exhibits. Not a great deal ... http://www.transport20.com/quads/yamahas-four-wheel-motorcycle-the-tesseract/ Like buried treasure, ‘barn finds’ stir the imagination and such was case with this which hit the block in H&H’s inaugural Duxford Imperial War Museum motorcycle and bicycle sale of October 10. Though only lacking the dynamo drive cover, it was in perfect condition for a total restoration, fetching ... http://www.transport20.com/auctions/vincent-rapide-brings-us38k-at-auction-but-what-about-the-us2k-velocipede/ It’s amazing what the evolving intelligent monitoring systems can deduce about the world we live in, and for some, the insight offered can be a real incentive to stay at home for the day. Today is such a day if you’re a road user in the UK. Trafficmaster maintains a ... http://www.transport20.com/road-culture/mayhem-forecast-today-on-british-roads/ It's ironic that the first post in our shiny new Transport 2 blog is not about the future of transport, but about ICE (Internal Combustion Engine-) - powered WRC rocketships, or more specifically, the quest for the 2007 WRC title. Citroën’s Sébastien Loeb closed the points gap on FIA World ... http://www.transport20.com/competition/loeb-closes-in-on-gronholm/