Racing improves the breed and creates excitement, that's the idea behind Formula Zero, an organization based in the Netherlands with the ambitious goal of establishing a hydrogen fuel cell racing series. Beginning with fuel cell powered racing karts, they have just begun racing at the student edition level where teams from top universities compete. The initial race in Rotterdam … [Read more...]
Auto Exhaust Can Generate Thermoelectric Power
About 40 percent of the energy from gasoline or diesel fuel is wasted as exhaust heat. If you can convert some of that heat to electricity, it can provide electric power for automotive accessories, relieving some of the burden from the engine resulting in better fuel economy. The device that performs this conversion is a thermoelectric generator and GM has been working on … [Read more...]
Low Rolling Resistance Tires Save Gas
Car companies can't make changes fast enough to suit car buyers. When gasoline made its recent price jump to $4 per gallon, consumers immediately began looking for better mileage, no surprise there, but what can car makers do? Low rolling resistance tires are getting a lot more attention because an existing design can have the tires changed and the suspension re-tuned much … [Read more...]
Is the High Performance Aftermarket Fast Enough?
Will the high performance industry adapt quickly enough to stay profitable while gas prices skyrocket? These are trying times for the auto makers, trying to shift practically their entire output to small high mileage cars. Pickups, SUVs and anything with low mileage numbers, performance cars included, are moving very slowly while consumers rush to tiny little econoboxes and … [Read more...]
Subaru Horizontally Opposed Diesel for Passenger Cars
Lots of manufacturers have been rolling out diesel engines for new passenger car applications but in fairly standard configurations. Fuji Heavy Industries, who build the Subaru, have unveiled the 150 horsepower turbocharged EE20, the first horizontally opposed diesel engine for passenger cars. The vehicles equipped with the EE20 will be officially announced March 4, 2008, … [Read more...]
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