100 Jobs? It Looks Good to Michigan   10 Sep 2009 05:44 GMT
In a state that has lost 800,000 manufacturing jobs this decade, old factories are being retooled to make renewable-energy products.


Source: NY Times

Terminal Man (Almost) Delays a Flight   09 Sep 2009 22:30 GMT
JetBlue has treated me like royalty from the beginning of this little adventure. In return, I came this close to delaying one of its planes. It was all an accident, I swear. See, last night, I met up with some of the guys from Wired.com at Oakland International Airport. I had to leave the secure terminal [...]
Source: wired.com

Honda Takes Half The Fun Out of Riding   09 Sep 2009 22:25 GMT
Honda has developed a dual-clutch automatic gearbox for motorcycles, which seems to us like a perfect way to make canyon-carving a lot less fun. This is the first time anyone’s bolted a dual-clutch transmission to a production sportbike, and Honda says it will arrive on our shores in 2010 aboard the venerable VFR Interceptor along with [...]
Source: wired.com

Terminal Man Is Famous! Sort Of…   09 Sep 2009 20:26 GMT
I’m more famous than an actor who appears on a television show watched by millions every week. Or at least I am to JetBlue employees. Somebody high on the JetBlue corporate totem pole caught wind of my adventure with Wired.com, and sent out a bulletin complete with my picture. Now I’m finding I don’t have to [...]
Source: wired.com

Terminal Man Takes to the Air   09 Sep 2009 18:12 GMT
Terminal Man flew into Oakland on the first day of his month-long adventure exploring Jet Blue’s route map carrying a change of clothes, a book and 10 bucks. We gave him a camera, a laptop and $35 to make sure he got a decent meal. For the five or six of you who haven’t heard, Brendan [...]
Source: wired.com

Lotus Has Big Plans for a Small Engine   09 Sep 2009 09:00 GMT
The guys at Lotus Engineering have built an itty-bitty engine that runs on just about anything and is, they say, perfect for range-extended hybrids. Rather than modify a current engine, as General Motors is doing for the Chevrolet Volt and Fisker Automotive is doing with the Karma, Lotus started from scratch and designed an engine specifically [...]
Source: wired.com

Wheels: Car Sales in China Soared in August   09 Sep 2009 00:37 GMT
The country is poised to sell more than 12 million vehicles in 2009, with sales helped by government subsidies.


Source: NY Times

Wheels: Peugeot iOn: Brought to You by Mitsubishi   09 Sep 2009 00:36 GMT
Last Friday Mitsubishi said it had signed a contract to supply electric cars for Peugeot-Citroen. On Tuesday, Peugeot revealed the rebranded car, the iOn.


Source: NY Times

Driven to Distraction: Backseat Drivers Are Now Nagging the Multitasker   09 Sep 2009 00:05 GMT
Heated discussions about distractions behind the wheel are creating disputes among family members and friends.


Source: NY Times

Coast To Coast on Slime   08 Sep 2009 23:07 GMT
Sapphire Energy hopes to change the world in ways so radical you won’t even notice. Before it does that, though, it’s going on a cross-country road trip using only 60 gallons of fuel made from slime. Josh Tickell, the founder of the Veggie Van Organization and the director of the forthcoming film Fuel, left San Francisco [...]
Source: wired.com