Are you the proud owner or developer of an electric, solar, hybrid, biofuel or hydrogen vehicle? Here’s a chance to show it off in a 4,000km rally from the Victoria Falls in Zambia, through the Caprivi and down through Namibia to Cape Town. Zero Rally Africa says the event will be one of the “greatest [...]

Rising oil prices have had a profound effect on the world, but one of the weirdest stories I read lately was in the New York Times about the rise in used cooking oil theft from fast-food outlets in the United States. In April a “bandit” was caught with 9,500 litres of cooking oil in his [...]

Here’s good news for anybody out there who can still afford to buy a new car and is more interested in fuel consumption than how many seconds it takes to reach 100km an hour or whether your car is bigger than any of the others on the road. All new vehicles will now have to [...]

Toyota‘s manufacturing plant in Durban is installing solar energy in a R3.5-million project that is expected to save the company R95,000 a month on energy costs, according a media release. The car manufacturer had already installed 150 solar panels by June 2007 and has plans to install another 120 of them. So, by the end [...]

New York psychiatrist and Star Trek enthusiast Willie Yee is in the process of converting his 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle into a Federation shuttlecraft, the Toyota Open Road Blog reports. Adjustments made so far include custom graphics, “spun-alloy Moon hubcaps”, blue undercar LED lights that flash in “a cool pattern”, and new seat covers. [...]

A team of Dutch researchers did an experiment to test the effects of exposure to diesel fumes on the brain by putting 10 volunteers into a room filled with exhaust from a diesel engine for one hour, reports Reuters. The volunteers’ brain waves were monitored with an EEG. The level of fumes was similar to [...]