Antennas are crucial components for morphing vehicles into communications platforms. Today’s antennas (largely of the shark fin variety) are unsightly, limited in terms of where they can be placed on vehicles, expensive for auto makers to install, and ill-equipped for … Continue reading
Category Archives: Transportation
Revolutionary Engine: Lean, Mean and Green
Engineers at Wichita, Kansas-based Astron Aerospace are hard at work developing a more powerful platform engine for aircraft, automobiles, boats and drones. Astron’s Omega 1 engines are designed to run more fuel efficiently and to generate cleaner emissions than engines … Continue reading
Three-Wheeled Motorcycle Taking the World by Storm
Snohomish, Washington-based Tilting Motor Works has invented TRiO, an accessory that turns two-wheeled motorcycles into three-wheeled motorcycles. Through its dealer network, owners of stock motorcycles can have their front fork and front wheel replaced with TRiO, a two-wheeled tilting front … Continue reading
Converting All-Terrain Vehicles Into Water Purification Delivery Devices
Excerpted from Solution Nation: One Nation is Disproportionately Responding to the World’s Most Intractable Problems G.A.L. Water Technologies introduced the GALMOBILE—the world’s first vehicle that purifies water. Since its launch, the GALMOBILE has been deployed in Switzerland, France, Nigeria, Papua New … Continue reading