I was talking to someone yesterday about innovation in the economy. The backdrop was the current motif of Europeans abandoning American produce as much as we can. But that Europe is so difficult to operate in that fairly sweeping changes need to happen. The crux of these changes allow the
One of my favourite cars from Gran Turismo in the olden days was the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32. They date around 1990-1994 and have an incredibly familiar silhouette. More striking for me is the rear of the car, with the circular tail-lights, which frankly looked incredible in GT2 (where it
This week I got to visit the Porsche centre in Dublin for the launch event of their brand new Cayenne. While Porsche is universally known for the 911, it's actually the Cayenne that they sell.
In Ireland, Porsche sold 445 cars through 2025. 40% of those were the
Bringing Back the Third Pedal: Engineering a Clutch System for Electric Vehicles
This is a bit of an odd one. A technical deep-dive into the hardware and software architecture required to integrate traditional clutch mechanisms with EV powertrains—and why motorsport might demand it.
Electric vehicles have solved the clutch.
Over the past few weeks I've tried to take more of a digital detox than I can recall.
And I recall a long time back. I recall being a pre-teen discovering IRC channels with fellow like-minded hax0rs. I recall the early days of blogging on various platforms through
One comment I've heard a lot is that batteries degrade quicker than internal combustion engines do. Most will acknowledge that even the best maintained ICE engine will lose horsepower over time, thus causing it to consume more fuel to do the same job that it used to. But
