Archive for category Hybrid vehicles

Hyundai i-Blue Concept to Become Reality in 2012

Posted by Mike in Hybrid vehicles, Hydrogen Power on September 2, 2010

Hyundai plans to become a leader in the field of electric and hybrid vehicles. So far the company has revealed numerous concepts and production vehicles. Among them is the 2007 Hyundai i-Blue, a zero-emissions concept car powered by hydrogen and by the last generation of fuel cell technology that the automaker has.

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Infiniti M35 Hybrid Sedan To Be Unveiled At Los Angeles Auto Show

Posted by Mike in Hybrid vehicles on September 2, 2010

Infiniti is believed to unveil the much expected M hybrid sedan at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show. The M35 Hybrid uses a 3.5-liter motor and can work solely on electric power in certain driving conditions, according to the manufacturer.

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Honda Jazz Hybrid to be Launched in September

Posted by Mike in Hybrid vehicles on August 28, 2010

Honda has announced that a new Jazz Hybrid motor will be launched at the Paris Motor Show in September, marking the first time a parallel hybrid vehicle has been available to B-segment consumers.

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Word’s Second Hybrid Tugboat Unveiled by Foss Maritime Company

Posted by Mike in Hybrid vehicles on August 26, 2010

Builder of the world’s first hybrid tugboat, Foss Maritime Company is to add a second hybrid vessel to its fleet in order to reduce the pollution and improve the efficiency. The project is part of a partnership between The Port of Long Beach, the Port of Los Angeles and Foss.

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Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4: World’s First Diesel Hybrid, With The Most Versatile Character Ever Seen

Posted by Ovidiu in Hybrid vehicles on August 24, 2010

I’ve been thinking for a long time that it made sense somebody built a diesel hybrid, not only gasoline-powered, like the ones existing today. That is because diesel engines have advanced pretty fast in the last 10 years and now feature both torque and decreased fuel consumption.

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Prius Breaks Silence With Add-On Noise Generator for Pedestrian Safety

Posted by Ovidiu in Hybrid vehicles on August 24, 2010

I had been glad to hear that you couldn’t hear Priuses as they passed by. I even stopped my engine once (I have a diesel) to hear the electric motor’s humming – it sounded differently than others, something I had never experienced before. That was in 2007.

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Low-Emission Tribrid Scooter Powered by Solar Energy

Posted by Mike in Hybrid vehicles, Solar Power on August 19, 2010

A group of students at the Canara Engineering College built a low-emission tribrid scooter that is powered by solar energy, being equipped with onboard photovoltaic panels.

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Ford Prodigy: The 80 MPG Diesel Hybrid Car Built in The 1990s

Posted by Ovidiu in Hybrid vehicles on July 29, 2010

So it’s possible to build an 80 mpg (2.3 L/100km) car, with all the accessories it needs, and still claim it can’t be done. This pisses me off. The Ford Prodigy concept, unveiled in 2000 at the NAIAS (North American International Auto Show) in Detroit, featured such savings and, above all these, it was a hybrid!

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Chevy Volt to Use AFS Trinity’s Ultracapacitors for Better Acceleration / Regenerative Braking

Posted by Ovidiu in Hybrid vehicles on July 26, 2010

Hybrid and electric cars both have regenerative braking systems, which transfer the energy otherwise lost as heat back into electricity, by switching the motor’s function from its normal one into an electricity generator when the driver pushes the brake pedal.

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Honda To Release a Plug-In Hybrid in 2012

Posted by Mike in Hybrid vehicles on July 20, 2010

The Japanese car manufacturer Honda announced it will launch a plug-in hybrid car and one with full electric propulsion. These two models will be released in 2012, as part of the strategy to push themselves to the front of a race by global automakers to produce more energy-efficient vehicles.

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