Attention car owners!!
For all of us buying a car is more like being fortunate in his/her carrier.It is regarded as a pride in owning a car rather their its necessity.But this investment of ours is no way an exception from getting damaged, depleting its value.well it is not an easy task to protect our car from a very small dent to a major accident.Because driving our car in a city having millions of vehicle population surely causes some minor or major accidents. So insuring our car is the best solution to protect it. As prevention is always better than repenting in future.So which is the best company offering me right insurance scheme for my car covering the maximum benefits?The only answer for the above question is carinsurancerates.com.This website offers the best insurance scheme for one's car.The insurance scheme covers maximum benefits thus relieving us from the stress of worrying about our car's safety.The auto insurance quotes provided by this website is very beneficial for its customers giving them 100% satisfaction.As they suffice all the needs of the car owners.This website has a wide range of information about all the policies that are covered under the insurance schemes avoiding confusion.
Mar 16, 2008
Your car is a Valuable resource and so do your car insurance!
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Jan 12, 2008
Making of Ferrari 456GT
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Hybrid cars -The best solution to keep a check for global warming
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We humans generally have two voices inside.One is the Good voice another one is the Devil's voice. The devil's voice always rules many of our peolple thats why we start exploring new things to increase our comfort level at the cost of the environment around us. Im a no way exception in what has been said above.But at times the good voice comes out which is making me to write some posts like this.About the new hybrid cars coming up.
Let me first explain what exactly a hybrid car means.It is the car having two types of engines.One engine runs in a normal gasoline and the other engine is powered by any of the eco-friendly fuels like hydrogen,solar and even batteries.
Now one company, AFS Trinity Power of Bellevue, Wash., says there is no need to wait for advanced batteries to be invented — that a successful plug-in hybrid can be assembled from components that are already available. The company, which specializes in energy storage devices, is displaying a running prototype at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which opens Sunday for press previews and runs through Jan. 27.
The prototype is based on a Saturn Vue Green Line, a hybrid crossover that General Motors builds using a low-cost belt-alternator system for its electric drive. With extensive modifications, AFS Trinity’s Vue can run 40 miles on electricity alone, the company says, drawing its power from a combination of lithium-ion batteries and scaled-up versions of common electrical devices called capacitors.
With a second electric drive system added to the standard gas-electric setup of a Vue Green Line, it would not be a stretch to call AFS Trinity’s creation a hybrid hybrid.
G.M., which is not involved in the AFS Trinity project, will also make announcements in Detroit about Vue hybrids on the way, including a version that uses the two-mode hybrid system recently introduced on large S.U.V.’s. Saturn promises an update on the production of its own plug-in version of the Vue as well.
Typically, hybrids exploit the synergies of electricity and internal combustion by using only an electric motor at low speeds; the gas engine kicks in as speed increases, and both are used when maximum output is called for. AFS Trinity, on the other hand, took a purist position. In its system, the gasoline engine is not started until the batteries run down, an approach that Edward W. Furia, chairman and chief executive of the company, calls an “extreme hybrid.”
By designing the system to operate that way, the AFS Trinity Vue can achieve the equivalent of 150 miles a gallon. But technical issues arise because it carries only a few batteries, putting a big strain on each one during acceleration — a serious problem for an automaker that must provide a long-term warranty. An electric-only vehicle would avoid the problem by carrying four or five times as many batteries, though that would greatly increase the vehicle’s cost.
In fact, the problem in a hybrid is not only how much energy the batteries hold, a quality called energy density, but how fast they can deliver it, called power density. The difference between energy density and power density is like the difference between a wine jug and a peanut butter jar — the containers may have the same capacity, but the size of their openings differ greatly.
Battery choices for a given application are based on the task. For a hybrid car, which needs a deep reserve of energy to go long distances, one of the most promising types is lithium ion, because it offers favorable energy density, carrying many watt-hours in each pound. That is what AFS Trinity chose for the Vue, with about 16 kilowatt-hours of usable capacity.
Jan 10, 2008
NANO-The Poor man's Mercedes
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Cars are no more an identity for rich people. It has become a basic need for every person even if he or she belongs to a middle class family.
India's Tata Group unveiled Thursday the world's cheapest car costing 2,500 dollars amid predictions the no-frills vehicle could revolutionize how millions in India and elsewhere travel.
The launch of the Tata Nano was a landmark in the history of transportation, claimed 70-year-old tycoon Ratan Tata, the head of the giant conglomerate, while rejecting fears the spartan car would add to congestion and pollution.
The four-door, five-seat sporty-looking car, which defied pre-launch predictions that it would be little more than a "motorized bullock cart on wheels", is due to hit the roads later this year at just 100,000 rupees (2,500 US dollars), excluding tax, after the Tata Group cut costs to the bone.
It's all about cars
Labels: cars, Europe's little 'Smart' car, little vehicle, smart car
Hugely popular in many European cities, the teeny tiny two-seater has already been reserved by 30,000 American residents.
PARIS - Behold, with a microscope if necessary, the Smart car. The Mercedes-built European two-seater turns on half a dime, loves to park where even MINIs fear to fit, and is counterintuitively comfortable.
This month, after six years of delays, the panda-cuddly car comes to America.
Europeans already have a love-hate relationship with the feisty little vehicle, designed partly by the Swatch watchmaker Nicolas George Hayek. But Daimler-Chrysler figures this is a perfect moment for the American market. The car combines French savoir-faire with German engineering, is cheap on gas at a time when oil is above $100 a barrel – and will target buyers concerned about emissions and ecology.
Already, 30,000 US residents have plunked $99 down to reserve the first 3-cylinder two-seaters sold in their country.
On the Upper West Side in Manhattan, promoters recently displayed 42 Smarts parked on a block that would fit 21 regular American cars. The US model is 7.5 inches longer than its European cousin, but still four feet shorter than the MINI Cooper, its main competition on the diminutive front. Smarts were also test driven in some Whole Foods store parking lots last year, which might say something about the intended market.
