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Volvo is working on cordless charging for electric cars

Imagine not having to actually exit and plug in your electric car (assuming you have an electric car to plug in), and instead just parking it over a special parking spot. That's the promise of a new technology that Volvo is working on, and if taken to the mass market once made commercially viable, it means electric cars will be able to recharge just by sitting over a charger built into the parking spot's surface. That would certainly eliminate the need for those bulky upright chargers that are spreading around the country.

Range Rover Sport by Kahn: The Red Ranger

Kahn Range Rover Sport Red Ranger Bradford’s Kahn design has built the Red Ranger, a Range Rover Sport with lots of titivation; perhaps the last Range Rover Sport from Kahn. Land Rover are busy bringing their current range of cars to a close with limited editions of the old models hitting showrooms. One of those is the Range Rover Sport ‘Red’, and not to be outdone Kahn Design has rolled out their own ‘Red’ Range Rover Sport in the form of the Red Ranger.

Q&A: David Townsend, GM global design director, user experience

GM's new design director of user experience, David Townsend, has only been in the job just over a month. But with a remit extending to the interface design of every vehicle in GM's global portfolio, his influence will soon be widespread. After graduating from Art Center with a degree in transportation design, Townsend interned for Toyota but soon moved to Motorola, where he developed wearable Bluetooth technology and designed the familiar headsets worn by coaches in the NFL.