Hybrid drive, the unbeatable alternative
The Audi took everything on this years 24 hours Le Mans race. It's an expressive fact – that points to the future, that in the in-house race the two hybrid R18 E-Trons edged ahead of the other 4 circles.
Le Mans: the alternative drives starring
Who should have it expected, that the electric resources - thought to be firstly as limited abilited, mostly short ranged– will conquer also the hardest raceways after conquering the category of the street sport cars? There you are, two participants from this years season, who won't surely lag behind the field: the Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro and the 2012 Toyota Le Mans TS030 HYBRID LMP1.
A four-circled two-wheeler, for gourmets
The engineers of Audi hardly started to create the e-bike conception going to be introduced in the second half of may with the aim of mass-production. Though the machine knows a lot, we can either speak about a collection of engineering solutions, than about a recent practical alternatively driven vehicle.
Electric Blue: like a light tear drop, that’s the electrical speed recorder
From the times immemorial the humans want to be more and more faster. Against others, against itself, against the offical records, they want to fly faster than the wind and the light...
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The hybrid McLaren strives for track record
Utilizing it's experiences gained in Formula – 1 McLaren has created it's newest sportcar. Though the P1 is even more forward – pointing even than the racing cars, because such an innovative hibrid drive like it has, may appear in the F1 only a few years later.
Something in what BMW and Mercedes – Benz are also in agreement
BMW and Mercedes – Benz are working on the prototype of an electric powered city minicar together: the aim of the development running on the Technical University Munich is to create such a city minicar which is the more lightweighted, but also safe at the same time.
The „hybrid – bag” has opened at the Volkswagen Group
The introduction of Audi A3 e – tron has much more of significance than we would think at first hearing. Namely the petrol – electric hybrid is the prototype of an entire „modell – troop": and if the Audi got it, then any other versions (which are built on that stunning many – sided floor panel giving it's basics) can be equipped with this modern drivetrain. And just to prove how truth this is: the Germans are already at step two...
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- The new generation of electric buses – flash charging at the bus stops July. 24.
- ALTrace in Győr – a clean race for a livelier future May. 1.
- The hybrid McLaren strives for track record March. 29.
- Something in what BMW and Mercedes – Benz are also in agreement March. 18.
- The environment is also in suit protectable March. 12.
- Electric buses on the airport of Hamburg March. 6.
- The „hybrid – bag” has opened at the Volkswagen Group March. 1.
- The past inside, the future outside February. 28.
- Groundless energy February. 19.
- The production of the Smart Electric Drive has been launched February. 6.
- Already in the times of our fathers January. 26.
- Not All Apparent Alternatives are Viable Ones January. 23.
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All pieces slotting right in
The only thing nobler than preparing for a perfect future is if you can also make your present a little better in the process. The e-gas project by Audi goes to show that alternative technologies should not compete against but rather complement each other.
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A new strategy of the Union for the alternativ fuels
The european transport depends on a large scale on the imported crude oil, therefore a newly appointed strategy of the Union aims the development and integration of the charging station network of the alternativ fuels.
