02-28-2005, 02:25 PM
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Real Name: Larry S. Singleton
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Good story on some upcoming Hybrids I had not heard of yet:
http://tinyurl.com/4e8fa
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Hats off, then, to the students at the Electrical Vehicle Laboratory at Keio University's Fujisawa, Japan, campus. Their Eliica electric concept car, unveiled at the last Tokyo Motor Show, has a 60-kilowatt motor, including the reduction gear, wheel bearing, and brake, in each and every one of its wheels—all eight of them. The advantages of using eight small wheels rather than four larger ones, says the Keio team, include increased interior space, better road holding (owing to the greater tire contact area), and a more comfortable ride (because shock absorption is spread over twice as many wheels). It can supposedly go from zero to 100 km/h (62 miles per hour) in four seconds. A version tuned for top speed is said to exceed the 368 km/h (229 miles per hour) it has recorded in tests.
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Last edited by Jason : 02-28-2005 at 02:28 PM.
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