Researchers from Hebei University of Technology in China have designed a photovoltaic-thermal air conditioning system that uses an air-cooled condenser and a PV/T condenser combined in series.

For decades, the massively popular Volkswagen Type-1 Beetle and the Type-2 VW Microbus or Transporter were powered by a unique air-cooled boxer engine. The Volkswagen air-cooled engine is ...

Despite being famously panned by Ralph Nader in his book, "Unsafe At Any Speed," Chevrolet managed to sell tens of thousands of its air-cooled VW Beetle-fighting Corvairs between 1960 and 1969.

Introduced in 1957 as a counterpart to the West German VW Beetle, the East German Trabant was powered by a 600cc 2-cylinder air-cooled 2-stroke engine. While it only had 18 horsepower and produced ...

There are historical ties to some notable personnel in the air-cooled VW's history, for better or worse. One was Ferdinand Porsche and the other was Adolf Hitler. Ferdinand Porsche wanted to ...