We’re back from a slightly longer than planned hiatus with a bunch of Bad Ideas, some of them from major auto makers, some our own. Be sure to write in with your own bad ideas: [email protected] //Alert: Spotify is deleting some of our episodes for using copyrighted music. You can find all o...

China’s automotive landscape is buzzing with innovation, and minicars are leading the charge. Unlike Japan’s Kei cars, which follow a strict formula that restricts engine size and dimensions, Chinese minicars have no fixed definition. Generally, the max length is about 11 feet. Most are three-door h...

Researchers at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center have found that we might be testing EV battery cell lifespan all wrong.

Is this communism? Is that what I’m doing here? I mean it sounds sort of like communism, advocating for collective ownership of a resource, but I implore all of you who may find this concept distasteful to just hear me out. The concept is really simple: Every neighborhood – made up of, say, 8-12 res...

Rum and seaweed! It sounds like the diet of a broke pirate, and it probably was, at some point, but now researchers at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus and the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE) have taken those same elements and managed to extract...