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Peugeot is building a sportscar; Peugeot SR1

Peugeot is building a brand new sport scar, yes, you read it correctly. Personally I didn’t expect this at all. Peugeot and sports car, is that a combination? Well after seeing the images, I think it is.
The specs are even great too! Who could think about that?! (more…)

Human Waste is Likely to Power Cars in the Future!

Researchers at Ohio University have laid their hands on a unique discovery. They claim that cars in the future would be powered indirectly by human waste.

The scientists have opened up a novel electrolysis technique that utilizes human urine, instead of water, as a generator of hydrogen. Actually urine is fertile in hydrogen.

This makes extracting hydrogen from urine easy. It needs only a fourth of the power needed to extract it from human waste than from water.

Filling up with hydrogen

The largest obstacle to mass yield of hydrogen has been the massive energy cost in production. But since this novel invention they will make hydrogen as the fuel of preference for the car industry.

Vehicles which are powered by Hydrogen have numerous advantages over other zero discharge cars. The time taken for refueling a hydrogen car is very less when compared to recharging an EV.

Environment Cautious Electric Minis to start testing

BMW is to establish a succession of field trials of electric Minis and is organizing a swift of several hundred.

The automobiles are to be constructed at the Cowley factory and then altered in Munich, before getting into real-life trying out for 12-18 months.
This step will permit the BMW Group to achieve a primary knowledge of how quality can be accomplished expeditiously using strictly electrically-powered vehicles. Our job here is to join the eventual driving experience with a competent electrified drive with almost no emissions announce the chairman of BMW.

Cost of Driving an Electric Car

With gasoline costs going up to new highs this summer, many car manufacturers are formulating electric cars, most of which will likely make it to the market between 2010 and 2012.  If the skill survives to build electric cars that do as well as today’s gasoline-powered models, their logic says, electric cars must cost less to run.  But is it true?

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The increased electrical utilization may come from a less-than-clean electrical plant, for illustration.  An electric car secured into a wall receptacle that gets its power from a coal-burning power plant is fossil-fuel powered car.  It may emit lesser emissions than a gasoline-powered car, but it isn’t need fully a free lunch.