Editor’s Note: We are going to acknowledge right off the bat that this post is based on Gizmodo’s fantastic piece, “6 Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever” Once upon a time, the automobile was born. Wheat-chewing farmers and cigar-chomping industrialists regarded the new machine with wonder and avarice, respectively. Baseball-loving boys and gradually-liberated girls […]
Archive | March, 2014
Seriously? Another Reboot of the Blog? Yes, Actually
You’ll notice a few things about the new design: Space – Do you remember how cramped the old blog was? Reading an article there was like navigating a game of Tetris. Focus – A blog has one purpose: to be read. You don’t need pop-up chat windows, dozens of links, scads of unrelated images and […]
e-Load Up! Perfect for Small Business Owners
If vehicles with cheerful explanation points in their names makes you feel warm inside, then the Volkswagen e-Load Up! is the car for you. Astute Volkswagen fans will note the name’s similarity to another Volkswagen model, the e-Up!, a spunky two-seat electric car designed for tooling around the city leaving nothing but smiles and environmentally […]
Volkswagen Developing Electric Cars With 400 Mile Range
We depend on batteries for many things in our modern world, most notably our laptop computers, smartphones and cars. Unlike the slim, hidden batteries inside our phones, however, the awkward, blocky batteries in our cars appear like Frankenstein’s monster: dangerous, ugly, and potentially lethal with its two exposed terminals—connecting the cables to jump-start a car […]
These Self-Smacking Wipers Knock Ice Off Your Windshield
Great clouds almighty: is winter over yet? Snow, sleet, freezing rain, hail—come on now! It’s been a season of much precipitation and through it Raleigh has received a hard lesson: we’re not quite as equipped for winter as we thought we were. As we drove through neighborhoods frozen by winter weather, however, we did notice […]