Your daily automotive news!
Although the Toyota Prius is getting hotter and hotter in the United States, Toyota is working on a new model for this Prius.
Well not a whole new model, because you can see underneath the camouflage there won’t be a lot different of this new model. The biggest different will be the sun cells on the rooftop of this car, that will be delivering the energy for the air conditioning of this vehicle.
The Japanese prime minister promised the world that he would make nearly 50% of the vehicles in his country as next generation models by the year 2020. This is in support to fight global warming. The next generation cars are the hybrid and electric cars.
Production of fuel efficient cars is regarded as next generation cars. The emission of gases which cause global warming by about 60-80% will be reduced with the help of fuel efficient cars.
Researchers are backbiting as to whether ethanol-blended fuels are unsuited with common engines. Biofuel retail merchants are refusing arrogates from the Automobile alliance that engines in older cars, lawnmowers and motorboats are at threat of wreck from new fuels.
Fuels mixed with Ethanol are being sold at some Mobil and Gull service stations, but there is a risk that these fuels are incompatible with some engines.
A bill is awaited which has to be passed by the parliament to bring biofuels into the general sale stream. The law says that a fixed percentage of fuels sold should be ethanol based. This result in two common blends biofuel being obtainable: a 3% blend (E3) similar to 91 octanes and a 10 % blend (E10) for advanced octane fuel users. (more…)
Japan the innovative oriented country has promised that the masses would be getting a fuel cell automobile very soon. The Honda Company is doing it this time.
FCX Clarity is a car of Honda which is to operate with the proposed cell technique. Japan has a history of making the technology in the lab a reality. It takes up mass production of fuel cell cars which will be available at a time when the world is reeling under the bursting gasoline prices.
Even though the new car smell is not yet fully safe for allergic people and cancer patients, but the seats and the interiors have become less poisonous these days says a report at the Ecology Center.
General Motors closely followed by Mazda and Nissan have advanced in decreasing possible injurious supplies in the manufacture of their cars. Chemicals like chlorine, lead and plastics were the culprits emitting all the toxic substances. Acura RDX SH which is a sport-utility vehicle has got the best mark for making environment friendly cars. Mitsubishi Eclipse Spider convertible, Suzuki Reno hatchback, BMW 120i and the Volkswagen Beetle convertibles are the worst emitters of toxic materials.
Apart from this children’s car seats also had improved and less toxic materials were used to produce them.
The protectors of the environment examined the basic components which the drivers and the passengers in a car would use and then they concluded that toxic materials were not necessary to manufacture a car.
Honda is working on their newest generation hybrid cars. Well the spy photographers of the website Roadandtrack spotted the next generation of the Honda hybrid in the Southwest desert doing some performing hot-weather testing.
The new Honda looks a lot on the Toyota Prius. Although the Honda is heavily camouflaged, you can see a lot of their design. The design of this 2010 Honda is highly influenced by the shape that looks a lot on the Toyota Prius.
Here some nice photo’s of this spotted ride.
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For more information about hybrid fuel options or other fuel options like hydrogen, bio-diesel or the cleanest fuel alternative Compressed Natural Gas, check the website of CarFuelOptions.com
Nissan’s cars which are sold in North America and Europe are going to have their batteries charged through the solar energy. The two companies that is Nissan and ICP have entered into an agreement for sales of solar charged batteries.
The charger actually keeps the 12-volt batteries charged while the Nissan cars are parked outside with the dealers to be sold. These ICP batteries are sold for $50 to people who want such batteries as supplemental.
The cars which are manufactured these days include in them a lot of electronic gadgets which use the same car batter. This makes a major issue for the manufacturers and the dealers.
The solar chargers price ranges between $50 and $1,350.
AC Schnitzer is the first company that took the opportunity to modify the BMW X6. And the results are great, but still not finished. From a decent BMW X6 they produced a nice agressive BMW X6 ride and still working on a nice performance update.
As you can see on the images below, they have modified the outside a bit with some bars, different grill and the nose of the car has been changed a bit. All that chrome is looking good on this nice black ride. If you ask us, this BMW X6 is changed in the good way.
On the inside AC Schnitzer made some different choices. They made the choice to use carbon and aluminum to decorate the car.
See the images below for the results. We like it! 
The performance kit they are still working on will be for the diesel versions 3.0dX and the 3.5dX. These will produce some extra horsepowers for this amazing ride.
Enjoy the images!
Nano exceeding supply, but anticipates the full year up to March will be a bit hard as the input costs are a bit high according to the chairman. The world’s cheapest car, the Nano, will be rolled out from the workshops of Tata around the month of October. 
The initial price is anticipated to be a bit greater than $2,500. In spite of its cheap cost the company says that it will render adequate margins from the diverse models.
Chairman Ratan Tata in the yearly member’s meting held on Thursday said that “We expect demand to exceed supply and we will have to figure out an appropriate system of deliveries,”
The company has a plant in Singur in the state of West Bengal. The capacity of the plant is 250,000 units, but its capacity can be increased up to 350,000 units.
The initial model of the Nano will be using gasoline but later on a diesel variant will be introduced.
The company has plans to produce a more fuel-efficient alternative of the Nano at the eco-car project in Thailand and this was indicated by the chairman at the meeting. The company also has plans to build electric car and also a model which might use compressed air. This will be done in coalition with a French firm.
In the summer of 2009, Lotus will be releasing their newest beauty. The Lotus Evora.
Click on the image for a bigger view!
As you can see above, this is the newest Lotus. The Evora. The engine is a 3.5 Liter DOHC V6 VVT-i with 280ps @ 6.400rpm and 342Nm @ 4.700rpm. 0-60mph Sub 5 seconds.
The wheels are 18″ alloys in the front (225/40 ZR18) and 19″ alloys at the rear (255/35 ZR19).
Below a couple of images of this ride… click on them for a bigger view.
We all hope, that people that gonna ride a car like this will have a good insurance for their car, because the price of this ride is not available yet,.. but we bet this car will cost a lot
Another sad thing is, that we didn’t heard about a some sort of economy engine. Running on hydrogen or something. Because the most manufactures are looking for alternative fuels like hydrogen or compressed natural gas. But maybe who knows…