Showing posts with label speed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speed. Show all posts

Friday, October 8, 2010

Hybrid Car Human Power

Company creates a car that does not receive the required gas and generate their own electricity, and may accuse the authority once again to the network. Car seats four and generates energy through a system of hand cranks. Yes, hand cranks.The next big thing in hybrid cars do not come from the likes of Toyota or General Motors. Instead, it comes from Charles Samuel Greenwood. Greenwood has been working on the concept car and the human-powered for decades, and all of his hard work come together in the form of Note Imagine_ HumanCar.





I do not think that car will be hand-cranked for marketing only as a neighborhood with a top speed limited. However, it has the potential HumanCar surprising - to a top speed of 30 miles per hour going up to 60 miles per hour on a flat surface. And can achieve all this by human power and nothing else.





As an exercise to enable cars, it is possible for one, two, three or four people to run the human interface power bi-directional. Instead, the operator may run one car in the development of electric power only - or you can use any combination of manpower and electricity.
This car-free emission is not only better for the environment, but thanks to the improved health of the driver to the workout you get while driving his car. It was the human health part of Greenwood's decision to build and refine this concept in the end.

"It was in 1968. Traffic was at a standstill, and again, on a busy street in what is now known as Silicon Valley," wrote Greenwood. "Sitting in their cars and many of the passengers who were suffering from overweight and out of shape, unhealthy breathing car exhaust. When I was a young engineer working in my first job in a laboratory research and development for a large company, it seems that intuitively there must be a better way to move people all over this. "

However, the concept of Q was born HumanCar imagine. The car is legal on the street means low vehicle mass and to the grid (V2G) compatible. Greenwood plans to bring the car to the market next year, but with reservations already on their website.

Small Cars in Paris Motor Show 2010

Although the Paris Motor Show witnessed the launch of many luxury cars that caught my attention was the small car launched by the People's carmakers. The following is some interest in small cars that I have seen in the exhibition.




Fiat offered a small, two-cylinder engine 900 cm, the concept of so-called 500 deaths in the Paris Motor Show. Engine delivers 65 to 105 hp depending on the state of their value. Can drive 85 hp up to speed 173 km / h, and low fuel consumption of 4.1 liters per 100 kilometers. The engine has 65 horsepower and less energy as compared with 85 horsepower engine, but better fuel efficiency compared with 85 horsepower engine. Fiat 500 is the first concept car from Fiat used "MultiAir" engine technology that is used to enter the valleys of air into the combustion chamber.




If you're wondering why I added an extra "h" to the car, it is because the company wants to differentiate the car from the regular hybrid version. The car was equipped with a 1.8-liter gasoline and electricity, which comes with a powerful engine and nickel-metal hydride battery.
The car has been designed taking into account the requirements of European customers. You have four driving modes - normal mode F, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and sports to choose from. If you plan to drive the car at 28mph, you can choose your battery only. However, you can pay up to 1.2 miles only when you choose the option of battery only. When you select the option Eco car dulls throttle response and improves the climate control system of the car, which reduces fuel consumption. The car was perfect for people who want to drive in their city in the premium small car.

Will have a list of small cars for attention can not be completed unless we put in Street Ford Focus. This hatchback from Ford and the great looks and roomy interior are excellent. One look at Street Ford Focus can remind you of the caller 3. Lines and curves abroad similar to those seen in the Mazda.

Leadership St. Focus is the easy and comfortable and the Steering Committee of the car smoothly. Ford Focus Street is a manual transmission with six speeds, the car comes with a knob shifter sports. The car and most of the features that are looking for the owners of the hatchback. The car is likely to progress to severe forms of achievement of Volkswagen and Mazda hatchback.