While only around 25% of motor vehicle accidents occur at night, about 50% of fatal car accidents happen at night. It’s essential to be careful when driving at night, and prepping your car for night driving is just as important. Preparing your vehicle for night driving ensures a fun and safe experience. Here’s how...
Electric and Hybrid vehicles are all the rage right now. With the 2001 UN Intergovernmental panel on climate change report along with the recent government guidelines and all the flashy new Tesla models around, it seems like we are well on our way to slowly switching completely away from fossil fuel powered vehicles. In...
Owners of some Mercedes-Benz vehicles will be able to legally take their hands off the wheel and their eyes off the road in Nevada soon. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said Thursday that the automaker could self-certify that its Drive Pilot system is safe for use on public roads. Drive Pilot has been available...
Additive manufacturing (AM) is joining materials to make objects from 3D model data, usually layer upon layer, instead of subtractive manufacturing. It gives engineers far more freedom to produce components with complex shapes, more than what is possible using subtractive methods. Its attributes give it the potential to impact more significantly on technology, manufacturing,...
AVL RACETECH, the motorsport department of AVL, recently presented a hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engine for motorsport applications. The power unit is a 2-litre turbocharged engine with intelligent water injection enabling output of around 150 kW per litre, which puts it in the same field as the close-to-production racing classes of today.  With the newly presented...