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My New Toy – Trailer

mire — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:34:37 +0000

My Yugo Car

mire — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:49:34 +0000

I’ve just realized I haven’t made a topic dedicated to my greenie, so here you go…

Tata Air Car

mire — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:39:37 +0000

Tata car manufacturer should be shipping it’s first car to run on compressed air within a year

the car, named OneCAT, will be very light, around 300+ kilograms, should go up to 200 kilometers on a charge with a top speed of 150 kilometers per hour

and that will cost you like 2 euros or so

that’s nice a perfect car for me

it should cost around 4000 Euros, will be Euro 0 (Zero Emission Vehicle or ZEV)

you charge it in like 3 minutes with a compressor and you could do it at home, just by plugging it in

it can be combined with some liquid fuels to heat up the air and achieve more speed when driving on the freeway

with one tank of petrol you should be able to drive from east to west coast USA in the future

the air is put into a carbon fibre tank and the engine is done by a French man, Guy Negre

I hope in time we can convert our existing cars to compressed air

it looks to be much cheaper than buying/converting to an electric car

I hope this technology can be used for storing energy

IBM Gets A Silly Patent

mire — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:12:06 +0000

I read today on Slashdot that IBM got a pantent for charging you for leaving a highway to avoid traffic congestion.

How does this sound to you? To me it sounds absolutely hilarious. I always leave a highway when it becomes congested and now IBM has a patent on charging me (us) for that?

Great

Read about this issue here

Tata Group’s Low Cost Car

mire — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:48:34 +0000

Indian car manufacturer Tata Group is about to launch the cheapest mass car around. The car, named “People’s Car” (this reminds me of VolksWagen a bit ) is going to cost about 2500 USD.

The motive for this car is driver safety. The traffic in India is 10 times more dangerous than that in the USA. You can see a family on a motorbike, a father, a child in front and a wife behind him driving in the streets. By using cars, the thought is, there will be fewer fatalities.

The car uses a 32 Horse Power Engine, weights about 600 kilograms and has it’s engine located in the rear. It is Euro 3 compliant, with manual and automatic transmission.

Here are the links and a look at how an Indian crosssection looks like:

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