A Reader Responds to Project Better Place Getting Wired (1)
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again –– Israel’s electric car scheme Project Better Place –– needs some serious rethinking. Shai Agassi, who founded the company (pictured above), proposes new infrastructure for the swappable batteries, leased and paid for much in the same way as the cellular phone industry: you pay for use and not the device. Israel and Denmark are buying. In August Wired magazine featured Agassi on the cover (you can ...
New hybrid Honda Insight 2010, $18500, 60 mpg (1)
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Honda Insight Hybrid 2010Honda has introduced a five-door, five-passenger compact hatchback, the new Insight will feature an innovative new platform in which the battery and control unit are located beneath the cargo space for exceptional utility and better handling. The Honda Insight 2010 will start selling on April 22, 2009 with starting prices of $18,500 and fuel efficiency of about 60mpg.Honda plans to introduce the production version of the all-new Insight to the markets in ...
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Clever stuff by Porsche. Select your favourite model, upload a picture of your driveway and then picture it. Or just go and get one. I think the 911 would look just fine next to my trailer. Link
5 Reasons You Should Donate Your Car (1)
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If you’ve bought yourself a new car and are looking to get rid of your old one, or simply want to get rid of a car, consider donating it to an organization that accepts car donations. Selling the car will almost always be better than donating from a financial standpoint, but donating offers benefits that may trump the money depending on your situation. After detailing five reasons why you should donate your car, I’ll give ...
The Sound of Luxury Cars Rev A Woman's Engine (1)
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Filed under: WheelsMen sometimes buy luxury cars partly based on the response from women. Now here comes the science to back up that behavior. British psychologist, David Moxon has performed a study for auto insurer Hiscox which says that the revving of a luxury car engine is sexually arousing to women. His research involved having 40 adults listen to recordings from Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari engines using the sound of a Volkswagen Polo for contrast. ...
Find yourself a pair of wheels with CarOcean (1)
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CarOcean, a UK-based classifieds search engine with a pair of wheels attached to it. The service offers searching and access to advertisements from the most popular car dealer/moto sites. Searching has been boosted up by filtering existing ads. The advertisements kept in the database are mostly updated, so as to provide reliable service. So far CarOcean has acquired ads from: Ebay, AutoTrader, Auto Exchange & Mart. The interface is pretty simple, with the search bar ...
Titan's air jack lifts your car with hot air, can't be used for a game of volleyball (4)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation The only thing worse than getting a punctured tire is trying to use a flimsy scissor jack to change it. Break down on a dirt or snow-covered road and you probably have as good a shot at losing your hand as you do fixing a flat. Not so with the Titan, which may look like an exhaust-powered whoopee cushion, but can actually haul cars (even lifted rigs) up into the ...
Performance World Car Show Girls (1)
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Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 (1)
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(...)Read the rest of Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 © admin for PicVi, 2008. | Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under Auto And Moto.
Dude Makes Full Size Star Wars Landspeeder In His Garage (1)
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Daniel Deutsch made a lifesize working replica of the Star Wars landspeeder. Deutsch’s masterpiece is 1:1 scale and was built with “a custom aluminum chassis, fiberglass body, and an electric drive system that hits lightspeed at 25 mph.” It is driveable, but there’s no word on whether or not this landspeeder is street legal. Even if it’s only able to make trips around the driveway, it’s still way more useful than that DIY Jabba the ...
Enerdel Technologies targets halving the cost of lithium ion batteries (2)
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Ener1 Inc's battery division Enerdel believes that they can reduce the cost of lithium ion batteries to half of their current cost when produced in high volume. This will mean a payback of two years instead of eight years for making a car a hybrid and having the fuel savings pay for the extra costs.Chemistry AdvantagesEnerDel believes longevity, safety and cost are the most important elements demanded by the automotive customers. To achieve these key ...
Mexico to Phase Out Dirty "Vochos," or VW Beetles (2)
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The ubiquitous green and white Volkswagen bugs that serve as cheap taxis for millions of Mexico City residents while damaging their lungs by spewing ultra fine particulate matter and other pollutants will be phased out by 2012, according to the Spanish news agency Efe. The cars, known fondly as "vochos," proliferated in Mexico decades after Volkswagen began manufacturing them in the city of Puebla. The municipal transport and road ministry, known as Setravi...
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This Information Superhighway Thing Is Getting a Bit Ridiculous (1)
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While I was abroad Randall Stross wrote a good piece in the New York Times (here or below the jump), in which I was quoted briefly, about Chrysler’s plan to equip its cars with WiFi internet access. Given that the car manufacturers worked carefully to come up with standards for things like restricting the number of commands that could be used on nav systems while driving, it seems to me extremely negligent that they would ...
ویرایش جدید لامبورگینی مورسیه لگو توسط ورساچه (2)
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در بین طرفداران خودروهای سوپراسپرت لامبورگینی (Lamborghini) نام شناخته شده ای است . Ferruccio Lamborghini در سال 1962 شرکت خودروسازی خود را در کشور ایتالیا راه اندازی کرد . هم اکنون این شرکت زیر سایه گروه خودروسازی Audi آلمان است . علاقه مندان به مد ِ لباس و پوشاک نیز حتماً مارک ورساچه را میشناسند . این شرکت ایتالیایی در سال 1978 در ایتالیا آغاز به کار کرده است . البته کار شرکت ورساچه فقط ...
Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk (1)
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On August 23, 2008, Scott Kelby held a Worldwide Photowalk to celebrate the release of his book, “The Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers.” Due to popularity, San Francisco ended up holding three separate walks: along the Embarcadero, within the Haight-Ashbury, and at Seal Rocks Beach. I participated in the Haight-Ashbury walk and had a great time. I even met a fellow FriendFeeder, Andre Maltais. It is always fun to meet new photographers in the ...
Budget 2009: what it means for the motorist (1)
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There are only two announcements made during the unveiling of the Budget 2009 yesterday that directly applies to motorists. One is a change in the road tax structure for diesel cars. Effective from the 1st of September 2008, the road tax rates for diesel cars will be changed to be the same as petrol cars. I am not sure whether this is really good news or not because for an owner of the Isuzu D-MAX ...
Heated seats not so good for wanna-be dads (1)
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Filed under: Just for dads, Love & sex, Pregnancy & birthMost machinery works best when kept cool, be it mechanical, electronic, or even biological. Your car's engine has a cooling system that's pretty darn important (he writes with an experienced air) and your computers really belong in an air-conditioned room. So what about that baby factory potential dads have? Shouldn't that be kept cool for best results?It turns out the answer is a definite yes. ...
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Another hot set of car show girls for you this Monday. Hot cars and smoking chicks, why aren’t there more Car Shows around?Shared by (``-_-´´) (54)Contribute commentConsumerist (678) permalink
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