FOLLOWING A 2007 TREK covering 3000 kilometres from Darwin to Adelaide, the University of Adelaide’s BioBike is now set to depart on a 20,000 kilometre round-Australia trip, eclipsing the 2007 ride.

Conceived by Dr Colin Kestrell and built by the University’s Mechanical Engineering students, the BioBike - also known as Betty - will [...]

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While automakers, oil companies and scientists squabble over what will become the fuel of the future, several alternatives have popped up as stopgap solutions to help ease the demand for oil. Of these, ethanol and biodiesel have emerged as the most popular, with widespread use of both spreading throughout Europe, the USA and much Latin [...]

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While we do not necessarily believe that Ethanol is the answer to the automotive world’s dependence on oil it is certainly nice to know that there is a renewable alternative to petrol that doesn’t involve ho-hum performance or the low-hum of electric engines.

Aston Martin’s DBRS9 racer has just won the latest round of the [...]

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Diesel powered F1 cars! According to F1 Racing magazine the President of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Max Mosley has written to car manufacturers suggesting that it is time F1 became more environmentally friendly. He proposes to achieve this by changing the field from fire breathing petrol powered cars to oil burners…diesels.

The proposal was [...]

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When you are at the car industry news coal-face it is difficult to keep up with who is doing what with which alternative fuel. Each manufacturer has their own vision for the future be it hybrids, bio-diesel, hydrogen and a number of others.

You can’t help thinking it would be far more efficient if they just [...]

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