http://ai.relay.lz:8084Articleshttp://ai.relay.lz:8084http://ai.relay.lz:8084/coreimages/newautologo.gifhttp://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/07-03-10Let’s keep things simple: this is the best, most interesting, most dynamic and most important motor show that I can remember. And I can remember a few. The Geneva show opened last week and runs until next Sunday, and if you have a passion for cars and an interest in where we will be going over the next five years, you could do a lot worse than travel to Switzerland and wander around the vast exhibition centre.2010-03-09T08:35:50.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/04-03-10_1I am often asked what the difference is between science and engineering. Nobel laureate and former president of the Royal Society, Lord Porter, would often say the answer was only “time”. I could not agree more. All pure science — if it is ever “pure” in the way some people like to think — eventually needs an application to make sense to society.2010-03-08T11:48:15.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/04-03-10With less than four weeks to go to the end of "scrappage" — the Government's subsidy scheme to save the motor retail industry — the question now is: what happens after the end of March.2010-03-08T11:44:33.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/18-01-10The annual MIA Greener Racing Conference saw many opinions exchanged on the future direction of racing. Here is Lord Drayson's contribution2010-03-02T13:22:46.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/28-02-10As auto industry executives gather in Geneva this week for the motor show, they can look forward to a future that is at least less challenging than last year. But that is not saying much. While survival of the sector is the prize of the past 12 months, the road ahead is still strewn with obstacles.2010-03-01T08:04:59.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/21-02-10_2Arnold Schwarzenegger wants one, Norway already has one and now Wales is about to get one. The government has announced ambitious plans to create a “hydrogen highway” starting in south Wales and eventually reaching out along the M4.2010-02-23T08:26:17.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/21-02-10_1The scrappage scheme may save the car industry, but it won’t save the planet. New research shows that while car sales have leapt, as people trade in older vehicles for new ones, thanks to a £2,000 government incentive, the environmental impact of the scheme has been ... nil or even negative.2010-02-23T08:04:36.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/21-02-10Honda, the automotive giant, set the land speed record for solar-powered vehicles when it won the World Solar Challenge in 1996. Its Dream racer, an odd-looking vehicle shaped like a cuttlefish, covered 1,870 miles across the Australian outback at an average speed of 56mph. It took just under 34 hours.2010-02-22T09:05:02.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/16-02-10_1The biojet fuel British Airways is planning to produce in its new plant in London has not yet been certified for use by the UK authorities, the airline has admitted to the Guardian. BA said that it would build what is believed to be Europe's first plant to manufacture "biojet fuel" using food scraps and other waste in an attempt to cut greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft.2010-02-16T20:50:07.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/16-02-10Automakers spent a good deal of effort at this year’s auto shows focusing on electrics, plug-in hybrids and a range of alt-technology hopefuls. Interesting future-view sort of stuff. Here in the present tense, there is a quiet reality that warrants the focus of the performance aftermarket: the great majority of vehicles that are on the road today, and those we will be buying in the coming 5, 10 or even 15 years, will involve an internal combustion engine and a consumer looking for efficiency without sacrificing performance.2010-02-16T07:31:52.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/09-02-10The Confederation of British Industry says it is not convinced that a minimum price for carbon in the European Union Emissions Trading System would necessarily encourage greater investment in low carbon energy. Perhaps it needs to talk to more of its members from within the energy industry, which insists that the low price of carbon is one of the biggest issues it faces as it ponders whether to invest in low carbon electricity generation facilities.2010-02-09T09:14:32.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/14-01-10The auto industry is back on the road after a tumultuous year, but obstacles still lie ahead.2010-02-09T09:10:17.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/07-02-10As a manufacturer, Toyota is at the forefront of developing modern manufacturing methodologies. The Toyota Production System (TPS) has, for many years, been viewed as a beacon of manufacturing excellence. Cathy Richardson argues that the underlying principle may have caused the company's recent troubles.2010-02-07T22:17:35.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/16-08-08Automotive engineering has always ranked highly as a steady career choice. But the car is increasingly seen as a harbinger of doom, uniquely responsible for global warming. Might another profession offer better prospects?2008-08-20T09:49:47.0+00:00http://ai.relay.lz:8084/articles/11-07-08Lotus unveils the Eco Elise technology demonstrator at the British Motor Show, capitalising on great strides forward in green technology2008-07-11T11:11:07.0+00:00