Tag: truck

  • Can your pickup do 516mph? This one can

    Can your pickup do 516mph? This one can

    Thinking out of the box has been the theme of the 20th century. Looking at what we have here, I dread the abuse of ideas that are yet to come. Yet, I have to be hypocritical about the effort and thought put into the making of these jet powered pickups. A certain Chris Lentz from…

  • UK gets world first trash powered electric garbage truck

    UK gets world first trash powered electric garbage truck

    Energy conservation initiatives reached their peak when oil prices sky rocketed this year. There is a small town in UK where the garbage disposal service is carried out by electric van that runs on the same trash it collects everyday. The van is actually a Smith Edison-modified 3.5-tonne Transit with a 40kWh lithium-ion battery pack,…

  • The largest robot truck lets the driver chill while it mines

    The largest robot truck lets the driver chill while it mines

    Automated cars are still a bit in their infancy, we may have seen bits and pieces of the technology, like self-parking cars and backup warning systems. Nevertheless, using such a technology for mining or performing the mundane tasks of a human being are now being implemented. Caterpillar engineers and computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University…

  • The 28 wheeler antenna transporter that turns on a dime

    The 28 wheeler antenna transporter that turns on a dime

    Building a large Radio telescope is no easy task, especially if each of the space telescope antennas weighs 115-ton and cannot be further dis-assembled to make them compact enough for transit. The entire project needed the transport of 66 radio telescope antennas which will be able to capture ultra high resolution images of space with…

  • Alton F-650 XUV is outrageously huge

    Alton F-650 XUV is outrageously huge

    Huge, humongous, sexy beast and then again huge; these are just some of the adjectives that pop into the mind when you look at this beauty. The Alton F-650 XUV carries a GVWR of 25,999 lbs, making the 660 ft-lbs of torque generated by its 7.2L Caterpillar engine seem trivial. The vehicle incorporates hardwood floors,…

  • 36,000 HP Jet powered truck is the world’s fastest

    Shockwave as this triple jet-engine truck is called holds the Guinness record for the world’s fastest truck. It is powered by three Pratt & Whitney J34-48 engines, also used in the U.S. Navy’s T2A Buckeye plane which deliver 36,000 HP and shoot the car to a top speed of 376 miles per hour (605 kph).…

  • Smith Newton in USA the world’s largest electric truck launched in the USA

    Smith Newton in USA the world’s largest electric truck launched in the USA

    The world’s leading manufacturer of commercial electric vehicles is launching its unique zero emission truck in the North American market. The robust Smith Newton is the world’s largest high performance electric truck, weighing in with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of over 24,000lbs. A rack of suitcase-sized, 278 volt batteries and a 120 kilowatt motor…

  • Trucks Transforming?

    Trucks Transforming?

    This is the Big rig jig at Burning man 2007. The structure is originally from Oakland, California.

  • Jaga Experience Truck…experience an experience!

    Jaga Experience Truck…experience an experience!

    Jaga has everyone in Milan and other parts of the world (through the internet), enthralled by the display of its ‘radiating’ imagination. The geniuses of Arne Quinze and Moroso have elevated the Jaga radiators to some other level altogether. They worked together on the Jaga Experience Truck and I think they deserve accolades for it.…