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OneCAT - the car that runs on air!
Remember an older article about a small company, called MDI, who had a plan in building a car that runs totally on air? Now they did it. OneCAT is a five-seat car, with a fiberglass body, weighting about 350kg and costing about… 4800$! And that’s cheaper than any car (maybe except the recent car from [...]
BMW X3 Hybrid announced to launch in 2008
BMW, considered by some critics to be the best car manufacturer in the world, is jumping on the hybrid bandwagon with the Concept X3 EfficientDynamics. In contrast to the gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles from Toyota, Honda, and Ford, the X3 uses high-performance capacitors (”Super Caps”) to store and supply electric energy to the vehicle’s well-packaged “Active [...]
Some Recently Available Electric Cars
So you live in California, you’re after an electric car, what are your options? Listed below are some of the cars recently put forward by manufacturers to satisfy the Californian state requirements for zero emission vehicles:
Car:
Range:
Battery:
Wh/kg:
Notes:
Solectria Sunrise
200 miles
NiMH
65 Wh/kg
A practical 4 seater car capable of over 300 miles per charge under the right conditions. Not [...]
Ford Th!nk - pretty small electric car
Ford Motor Company is taking a major step to jump-start the development of affordable small electric vehicles, and that step is catching the eye of drivers around the world. Ford has purchased majority interest in Norwegian-based PIVCO Industries, the manufacturer of the two-passenger TH!NK electric city car.
TH!NK is hard not to notice because of its [...]
Toyota Denies Battery Issues on Their Next Prius
A Toyota official said recently the Li-Ion battery of the next generation Prius is not a problem in the company’s process of developing the new vehicle. Although Sony had experienced troubles with over-heated Li-Ion batteries, Toyota says it’s not the case in the Prius battery. The silence around this subject is because they want to [...]
