eXasis - Glass-free transparency
“There’s never been anything like it” were the words used in the online edition of an acclaimed international news magazine to describe its editor’s reaction when the first sketches of the new Rinspeed concept car, “eXasis”, appeared on the Internet, “and it looks like no other vehicle before it”.
Top hybrid cars
Auto majors are in the market to lure customers with their latest hybrid models. Here are a few leading models that have already captured the market share.
Toyota Prius
A four-door sedan, it is the best hybrid in terms of its competent technology. It gives you a reasonably good 50mpg in the real mixed driving. When compared [...]
Hybrid Cars – Top of the Motor Market
The new generation hybrid cars are a sage across the globe with a new study indicating that the hybrid-electric vehicles demand globally to hit around eight million by 2020. The sales of hybrid cars will be mainly driven by the purchases in the United States and the primary motive would be the cost of fuel.
Bio-diesel [...]
Incentives and laws
Why car fans are lured by the term ‘hybrids’? If you think it is the technology alone that attracts the car buyers to it, you are mistaken. Look at the following facts on how federal governments green-signal the sale of the hybrids by a set of laws and incentives. Of course, the credit goes to [...]
Hydrogen – the future hybrid fuel
The much talked about California Hydrogen Highway project, initiated by Governor Schwarzenegger, is intended to promote the use of hydrogen as the future fuel in vehicles. The project provides funds for public as well as private partners to install hydrogen fuelling stations and to lease and purchase hydrogen-fuelled vehicles.
Hydrogen hybrid cars work with [...]
Global warming - a warning to the world
A hypersensitive issue capable of bringing all nations around one table- that is the ‘global warming’- a term allotted to the extraordinary increase in the atmospheric temperature due to the accumulation of green house gases.
Green house gases (GHG) mainly comprise carbon dioxide, which is emitted to the atmosphere as the byproduct of burning of fossil [...]
Better fuels for the future
The scarcity of conventional fuels such as coal and petroleum has turned many car manufacturers to performance-guaranteed alternate fuels. Though the cost of production and the feasibility of these fuels are the priority concerns, the environmental impacts of these fuels are equally important.
Taking into account several factors such as availability, emission, cost of production, [...]
Ethanol – an innovative fuel for hybrid cars
Ethanol- the term is familiar in the auto industry now. Thanks to the new hybrid fuel technology that works on a mix of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) and petrol/diesel. Different combinations of these fuels such as E85, E70, etc., are in market. E85 stands for 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline whereas E70 has a 70:30 ratio [...]
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