The Obama administration is preparing to warn car owners that dangerous counterfeit air bags may have been installed in vehicles that have had their air bags replaced in the past three years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration alerted the industry on Tuesday, October 9th, through a series of phone calls that tens of thousands of car owners may be driving vehicles with counterfeit air bags.
Read the rest of this entry »
US-based fuels specialist Joule and Audi have developed an extraordinary process to produce e-ethanol and e-diesel where microorganisms suspended in brackish, or waste water can use sunlight and waste CO2 to create fuels without the need for biomass.
Plug-in hybrids claim to be much more fuel efficient, therefore cheaper to run, than regular models that are powered only by combustion engines. But, instead of looking at the increase in gas prices when driving your hybrid, you have to keep an eye on your electricity bill for the cost of charging your car battery.
Read the rest of this entry »
In 2013, for the first time ever in storied history, the V8 Supercar Series will be heading to America. The event will begin May 17th and end the 19th next year at Circuit of the Americas’ new circuit in Austin Texas .
Read the rest of this entry »
As automakers seek to maximize performance while striving for efficiency, turbochargers are becoming increasingly common. Recent studies show over the next five years, turbo usage will see a global increase of 80 percent. This means by 2017, an estimated 36 million vehicles on the road, which is about 40 percent, will be turbocharged.
Read the rest of this entry »
There are some things that you should never tell a car salesman. Not all car salesman are deceitful but their paycheck depends on how weak their customers are and how much they can up sell their vehicles for. A car salesman can be your best friend if they find you your dream car, but to get it at a good price there are six phrases you should not mention around them:
Read the rest of this entry »
Even though the teen drinking and driving rate has decrease more than 50 percent over the last decade, teens still commit the crime roughly 2.4 million times per month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study suggesting that last year, nearly one million teenager drank alcohol and got behind the wheel of a car.
Read the rest of this entry »
Most sectors in the United States are on the rise of industrial espionage. In the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI) opened 1,212 intellectual property rights cases, which was an increase of 66 percent compared to 2009.
Read the rest of this entry »
800-973-5506
Help
Account
Cart