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Nissan will be displaying this quirky-looking concept car at the 2008 British International Motor Show called the Nissan Denki Cube Concept. It’s based on the Nissan Cube and uses a pure electric motor drivetrain powered by laminated lithium ion batteries.
Those who knows a little bit of Japanese or are fans of Best [...]
Volkswagen’s TwinDrive Plug-in Hybrid Prototype is based off a regular 4-door Volkswagen Golf, or at least that’s what you think from appearances. Under the hood is something completely different - an electric motor paired together with either a TDI turbodiesel or a TSI turbocharged gasoline engine.
The main method of propulsion in the city is [...]
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Sometime in May this year Fiat announced that it would revive the Topolino name for a range of small cars that could potentially also include one that has electric drive, as the Fiat Phylla concept hinted. The new Fiat Topolino variants will be built at the recently acquired Zastava plant in Serbia. [...]
The Fiat Phylla concept city car was developed by design schools IED (Europeo di Design), IAAD (Istituto di Arte Applicata e Design), and the Centro Richerche Fiat (CRF)’s Advanced Design department.
Phylla is the Greek word for leaf, and pays homage to the leaf’s ability to photosynthesize sunlight into energy, which the Phylla concept [...]
The TH!NK Ox might look like what a second generation smart forfour might look like, but its actually an emissions free concept car from Norway company Think. Think calls it the Ox a family of space frame cars rather than just one car, with different variations available including coupe, sports and “MPV” versions of [...]
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Mazda has released a sketch of the upcoming Mazda compact SUV that is scheduled to be unveiled at the 2008 Moscow Motor Show. The compact SUV will most likely be based on the same platform as the Ford Kuga and will be smaller than the Mazda CX-7.
A Moscow world premiere location was deemed suitable [...]
Audi unveiled a CNG-powered A5 coupe last year called the Audi A5 2.0 T-CNG, powered by a 2.0 liter TFSI CNG engine which can run on both normal petrol and Compressed Natural Gas, which is what our NGV vehicles in Malaysia run on.
The Audi A5 2.0 TFSI CNG is designed to provide similiar power [...]
Now this is an interesting concept… a car with no sheet metal skin. The 2-seater BMW GINA’s dodgy name actually stands for “Geometry and functions In N Adaptations”, with N adaptations referring to the flexible outer skin of the car that is made out of cloth!
Under all that cloth is a special chassis structure [...]
Toyota has updated its Toyota FCHV fuel cell vehicle with a new FC Stack that extends the range of the vehicle considerably.
The FCHV’s original hydrogen storage system could store 148 liters of hydrogen at 35 MPa maximum storage pressure. The new system in the new Toyota FCHV-adv concept vehicle stores 156 liters at a [...]
Automotive News reports that the upcoming MINI “Crossman” SUV will come in two variants - one using the 175 horsepower turbocharged direct injected 1.6 liter engine from the Cooper S, and the other using a diesel engine from the MINI Cooper D.
The same report mentions that the BMW X1 will come in 3.0 liter [...]
