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MIT researchers rethink electric-car batteries

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new battery design for electric vehicles could be a lightweight and inexpensive alternative. The goal for the team's three-year project, launched in September 2010, is to have a functioning prototype ready to be engineered as a replacement for existing electric-car batteries. At this point in the project, the prototype uses a “semi-solid flow” to separate the two functions of a battery--storing energy and discharging it when needed--into separate physical structures.

Hollywood muscle: Nicholas Cage to sell Hemi 'Cuda at Arizona auction

He memorably played a car thief in Gone in Sixty Seconds, but actor Nicholas Cage is offering his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda through legal means: the Hemi hardtop is one of the headliners at Russo and Steele's annual auction in Arizona later this month. Detroit muscle via Hollywood--and it's rare too. Cage's car is No.

2011 Kia pro_cee’d facelift revealed

The 2011 Kia pro_cee'd facelift arrives - 18 months after the Kia cee'd 2011 Kia pro-cee’d facelift revealed does rather imply that Kia has had a hand in teasing a facelift for the grammatically-challenged pro_cee’d. But they haven’t. This reveal of a facelift for the three-door cee’d comes courtsey of the Kia World forum who have managed to get their hands on a few images ahead of an official reveal.