Safety and Technology

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in the US has recognized the Subaru XV Crosstrek as a 2012 Top Safety Pick. All of Subaru's vehicles have received the IIHS Safety Pick awards for the third consecutive year.  The XV Cro...

Japanese tire company Bridgestone showed several concepts for future tires at the Paris Motor Show. Among the concepts were a sustainable tire that was made from reinforced plant materials and a new high fuel efficiency tire with high wet weather ...

The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Daimler have announced plans at the Paris Motor Show to cooperate on building and designing a new family of four-cylinder turbocharged engines with low emissions and high fuel economy. They will also work together t...

In the first part of our series looking at the car of the future, we examined the trends pushing automotive development. The major factors of the future car appear that it must be cost effective, efficient and technologically advanced but not flas...

Mercedes says that it will continue to use R134a refridgerant in its vehicles after it found that the new R1234yf refrigerant could be flammable in rear world conditions.  R1234yf has been tested in the lab and been found safe, ...

Tesla has officially announced its Supercharger electric car charging stations for the United States. These are not chargers that Tesla will sell to customers but charging stations located across the United States where Tesla owners will be able t...

Audi is developing a way for waste CO2 to be used to create synthetic petrol and diesel by using cyanobacteria. The process involves filling 100m long tubes with water in which the bacteria live. CO2 is pumped through the water. When exposed t...

With its SARTRE project, Volvo aims to highlight the potential for implementing road trains on conventional highways, with platooned traffic operating in a mixed environment with other road users. "The road train is the best of two worlds...

BMW is developing new technologies for the future including a new modular engine family, new transmission sensors, energy improvements on electric cars and better aerodynamics. All of these technologies fall under its Efficient Dynamics branding. ...

General Motors is using a new crash test dummy that is specifically engineered for rear impacts. The dummy is called the BioRID and was developed at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. It has 24 vertebra simulators so it can react natu...