Automakers envision electric cars as a solution to gas price jumps. Environmentalists see bluer skies. And electric utilities? They could be the biggest winners of all.
Electric cars use lots of juice and are typically plugged in to recharge at night when utilities have excess power-generating capacity. That’s great for power companies.
But electric cars and plug-in hybrids, which are expected to start hitting the streets next year, could pose a challenge for …Â Details
Bristol Motor Speedway continues to be a track favorite for race fans. But, planning a trip to Bristol for Sunday’s Food City 500 is not as easy as it used to be. BMS officials are doing as much as possible to give race fans the best value for their buck.
“Anything that we can do right now, especially anything that we can apply to the fan experience and the Bristol experience… Details
Remember how much fun you had as a kid, pushing a button and watching in awe as your Hot Wheels mini sedan cruised from its accelerator and raced up an impressive loop? The simple things that satisfied in our youth were always covered in a veil of fantasy, though, weren’t they? Once we realized the possibility of having more – more stunts and boosts, more of that adrenaline feeling that the cars could fly off the track at any given moment – we felt disappointed by a one-loop, one-trick pony. Toy companies would be too limited to realize the “asphalt labyrinths” from our imagination, so these virtual raceways would have to settle for a virtual home…..
….TrackMania DS can be thought of as the spiritual successor to Stunts some 20 years later. That’s not to say there weren’t numerous other attempts to offer racing alongside track building, but few seem to do it as well as TrackMania…. Details
As far as Cup Series racing goes, this weekend is put up or shut up time, at least for a week, for a good number of people.
By Sunday evening, we’ll know who the 35 guaranteed starters for race No. 6 in the Cup schedule will be.
But first, let’s make one thing perfectly clear. Anyone making attempts … Details