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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Painful to see

Have a look at accidents involving luxury cars. I guess when money is not an object, people just drive it like it's worthless. They may have all the money in the world, but they probably can't handle the power of such car.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Persona unveiled as Savvy and Waja transform...

Malaysian car producer unveiled a new sedan car (actually it's a sedan version of previous Gen-2 hatchback model)called Proton Persona. The name actually is quite confusing since it had been used in the UK for Proton Wira.

It's much longer than Gen-2 because of extra car boot space that actually perfect I guess for 66L cylinder gas.

Proton expecting 4,000 cars per month for Persona and it's hoping to recouping previous model that not really up to the mass market taste such as Waja, Gen-2 and Savvy.

So, what they going to do with them, so quick and fast move is to remodel the whole thing like what they did to Satria Neo.

What to see a sneak preview of this HOT new remodel Waja and Savvy. Here it goes...

Savvy now comes with a lot of extra features NOT available to other cars. Handy in tight situation such as trapping in a very long traffic jam.

The mighty powerful WAJA. Ready for a battle..watch out ROAD BULLIES.

Merry-goes-around and around and around....

Have you ever cme across a roundabout. I guess, everyone had one. But have you seen this kind of roundabout. It's called "Magic Roundabout".

Don't be confused with the Magic Roundabout; the children's television series although the name inspired from that . It's a real thing in Swindon, England. It was constructed in 1972.

Remember if you are in England, why not go to Swindon and experience the "magic of a humble roundabout". After all, it's the most practical and simplest innovation that really works!

Look at the signboard. The Magic Roundabout.

Cars go around and around.

What a view

Get to know the whole story.

Friday, August 3, 2007

Need to find more info on NGV

Here are some of the links to various associations that are involved in promoting compressed natural gas as an alternative fuel to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the whole world.

International Association of Natural Gas Vehicles

Asia Pacific Natural Gas Vehicles Association (ANGVA)

European Natural Gas Vehicles Association

Natural Gas Vehicles Association

Natural Gas Vehicles Coalition

California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition

Portugease Natural Gas Association

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Band new MPV with NGV conversion kit.

Brand new NGV Naza Ria and Citra.

Naza Automotive Manufacturing Sdn Bhd manager Mohamad Shalan Hassan said the company had spent the last six months developing prototype variants of the Naza Ria and Naza Citra – dubbed NGV Naza Ria and NGV Naza Citra.

“The NGV Naza Ria's 150-litre capacity can offer a mileage of 346.5km based on a 11km per litre consumption rate,” he said, adding that the consumer version of the NGV Ria had a 70-litre capacity that could last about 161.7km.

More from The Star.

Naza Ria 2.5 A GS Model RM 103,888.00
Naza Ria 2.5 A SE Model RM 109,888.00
Naza Ria 2.5 A NGV Model RM 107,888.00

If you want one click on this.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Natural-gas-powered bicycle

We have motorcycle powered by natural gas. Now, have you heard about bicyle powered by natural gas. I know you must be thinking of these...

Now look at these, is this the bicycle powered by natural gas?

Of course not, it's a picture of a boy stealing natural gas in China. You never know, there's one somewhere in this world.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

From ethanol to compressed natural gas

The journey of Brazil in enhancing their natural resources to be used in their vehicle is not new.

A desire to reduce dependency to imported petrol lets them to be creative with what they already have.

Brazil, however, has seen it all before. In the mid-1970s, the government initiated the “Proalcool” programme to convert sugar cane into ethanol with the aim of becoming the first country in the world to convert to renewable fuel.

Its motives were the same as in America today — independence from imported oil — but the reasons were entirely economic rather than due to concerns over security of supply or the environment.

It was a happy coincidence that Brazil’s ethanol-powered cars produced 50% less greenhouse gases than equivalent petrol engines.

Sales of ethanol cars dropped to almost zero by 1997 and stayed that way until the idea was revived in 2003 when oil prices started to rise again.

This time the ethanol cars had an important difference: “flexi-fuel”. Today’s models can run on both petrol and ethanol. A computer control unit detects what kind of fuel is in use and adjusts the engine accordingly. It was developed in Brazil by Magneti Marelli, the electronic-component company that is part of Fiat.

The government’s new idea is to promote CNG (compressed natural gas). Brazil has large reserves of natural gas and access to further supplies from neighbouring Bolivia.

CNG is cheap — the cost per kilometre is less than half that of petrol and alcohol.

Magneti Marelli has risen to the challenge with its Tetrafuel system. This is a single-engine, electronic-control unit that can detect and automatically switch between CNG and liquid fuel which can be 100% petrol, 100% ethanol, or any combination of the two.

Page 1 from Times Online

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Have a look at Magneti Marelli TetraFuel Technology