Toyota has announced that it's opening up its vehicle electrification patent archive to help speed up the development and adoption of electric vehicles. Research and development of electric vehicles is costly and time consuming. Toyota wants to help, announcing that it will grant royalty-free licenses to other manufacturers for nearly 24,000 patents (including some pending applications) relating to vehicle electrification technologies. The focus of the electric vehicle techno

Suzuki has filed a patent for what looks like the design of its future café-racer-styled motorcycle.The overall geometry of the bike signals towards a modern classic café racer model from the Japanese bike maker. As apparent from the images, the bike sports a long fuel tank with knee recess which is accompanied by a puny seat resting over a high-set sub frame. The foot pegs are rear set and have been positioned high which will result in an aggressive riding posture. Although