Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

More than a decade after the debut of the Toyota Prius, Porsche is racing a new version of its evergreen 911 that has some potential to shake up the world of hybrid technology. The 911 GT3R hybrid is ...

When a Speed network television crew interviewed Margo T. Oge, then-director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, during the 10-hour-long 2010 Petit Le ...

Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 25, 2013 Comment Now! About two years ago we told you that Volvo was about to commence testing of an innovative flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), not in ...

Many of us think of weight as the enemy, whether it’s our beltline or our Jeeps. Weight places additional stress on all kinds of Jeep parts from the suspension to the drivetrain, makes it more ...

As has been said time and time again, weight and horsepower are interchangeable. Save 50 pounds, and it's like adding quite a few extra ponies. The burden of mass becomes even more of an issue when ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...