Category: Automotive
Can’t Find a Taxi? YongChe is the app for that!
Tweet If you have ever been to one of the major, and massively busy, cities in China like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, you will no doubt understand how difficult it can be to find a taxi. Thankfully Zhou Hang, CEO of Yongche, has an app for that! Tweet
BYD E6 Electric Sedan On Sale
Tweet Electric cars are one of the soon to be booming market in China, and BYD are one of the first of the larger Chinese car manufacturers to offer an electric car to the Chinese car buying public. The all electric BYD E6 has been available to buy for taxi companies and can be seen [...]
BYD electric buses heading for LAX
Tweet BYD (Build Your Dreams, the Chinese car company behind such cars as the BYD F0 (Toyota Aigo clone) have announced that they will be setting up shop in North America. BYD are going to open a new headquarters in Los Angeles, which marks the Chinese automotive companies first physical presences in the U.S. The [...]
Peugeot VS Stoplight: Round One ‘Fight’
Tweet Just like the U.S, in China you can make a right turn at a junction even at a red light. This Peugeot driver in Shanghai tried to use his ultimate wisdom of the right turn rule and his mastery of car handling to avoid getting a ticket for jumping a stop light. After speeding [...]
Brilliance Auto EV Concept
Tweet I have to admit I’m slightly biased toward anything Brilliance Autos （中华）reveals. I love their BS4 Wagon, BS4 Saloon, like the idea of the Brilliance Coupe and love the FRV hatchback so much that I bought one! This is Brilliance’s EV concept which was shown at a number of auto shows last year. I’m [...]
Chinese Student Ride To School in ‘Super Bus’ Style
Tweet Where as most Chinese schools are happy to send their students to school in regular old coaches and buses or in some cases converted vans, the local government in Lecong town in Guangdong Province have treated their pupils to ‘Super School Buses’! The bright yellow $365,760 (2.4 million Yuan) buses were made by a [...]
China’s Homegrown GPS Will Generate 400 Billion By 2020
Tweet GPS is big business all over the globe, and here in China, home to the worlds fastest automobile market navigation is even a bigger business than in most economies. Currently 95% of all navigation in China is handled U.S GPS satellites, but this is American dominance of global positioning and guidance sound like it [...]
Jet Powered Fire Truck
Tweet This is China’s latest tool in the fight against skyscraper blazes a turbo-jet water gun made from a jet fighter engine! The fire truck here was pictured in Luoyang, Henan Province and cost an estimated 3 million yuan ($455,539). The turbo-jet gun can rotate almost 360 degrees, and shoot out 3 tons of water [...]
China Working On Advanced Fire Engines
Tweet With the blaze in Shanghai still fresh in our minds, China’s state radio has reported that Beijing Fire Dept. and Sany Group are working on a new generation of fire truck to tackle high rise fires. Tweet
Mini Tank Rampages Through Chinese Streets! Video
Tweet OOOOppss, I guess I overused my quoter or ‘artistic license’ on this one post title alone! The miniature tank tank isn’t exactly ‘rampaging’ through the streets, and no matter how much you might have hoped there is no destruction or car crushing, but it is cool to see a guy ragging around in what [...]
Give your ride a retro fit, DIY, supercharged air conditioner Hainan style!
Tweet The owner of this little van in Hainan island China got so fed up with a/c failures he decided to fit a house a/c to the back of his van! Hainan island is one of the most beautiful places in China. The tropical weather and fresh air mean the land is green and the [...]
30,000 Beijing Cabbies and Microsoft Are Improving GPS
Tweet The problem with most modern GPS systems is that they rely on clear roads and typical speed limit time estimates. Sure they can tell you to slow down if you creep over the speed limit or even warn you of upcoming traffic, but for the most part, they’re unable to help drivers navigate around [...]
Bluetooth Enabled GPS Rear View Mirror
Tweet Are you a cheapskate like me? Did you buy a bottom of the range car? Do you now wish you had sprung the extra cash for the one with GPS and a better media center? Well never fear! This all in one rear view mirror may just be what the doctor ordered. Installing is [...]
Driverless Cars Travel 8000 Miles to China
Tweet To anyone living in China the little orange van pictured here looks a lot like a Mian Bao Che (meaning bread van due to it’s looks) which is the backbone of China’s small businesses, but this little van has a few tricks up it’s sleeve. Using a total of 7 video cameras built in [...]
Ghost Parking Valet with Video
Tweet Parking spaces are rare the world over so it’s no wonder people are resorting to desperate measures to keep their space vacant. While most people might be happy to just post a ‘No Parking’ sign in their space, place a few cones in the way or even ask a relative to camp out to [...]
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