YANGWANG, the luxury sub-brand of global new-energy vehicle (NEV) leader BYD, has set a new global production-car top-speed ...
Results vary based on who's measuring and what's being measured. But a 252 mph reading from Hurricane Melissa is among the ...
Tesla was first to patent a primitive axial-flux electric motor—Nikola Tesla, that is, way back in 1889. It would be 126 ...
Bonneville is one of the flattest natural runways on the planet, a surface so smooth and open that racers have been coming ...
The world's first gas-powered car, a three-wheeled modified horse carriage with space for two passengers, reached 10 miles ...
The Bugatti Veyron will always be a legend, but times have moved on, and so have horsepower, powertrains, and the extremes of ...
The only two places in the world that have highways without speed limits are specific stretches of the German Autobahn and ...
The next Pebble Beach Concours may be one of the fastest ever. The first car to go over 200 mph will roar onto the grass of the 18th green—at a much slower speed—this August when the Sunbeam 1000 HP ...
A British cyclist has broken the world record for fastest bicycle speed in a slipstream. Neil Campbell beat his own previous record by pedalling at 175.89 mph behind a high-powered pickup truck. He ...
Theories on low-drag aero­dynamics ­haven’t changed much since the longtail Le Mans racers that inspired the Aerotech, adding a timeless aspect to the futuristic design. On a lonely oval racetrack in ...
Land speed racers and car enthusiasts gathered at the Bonneville Salt Flats for World of Speed last month, as they have nearly every year for the past four decades, greeting many longtime friends and ...