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A Hybrid With No Transmission..and It Gets 160 Mpg Too!!!
January 29th, 2010 | 
Author: A Hybrid With No Transmission..and It Gets 160 Mpg Too!!!
Generally; 1020 of a cars power is lost through the transmission. This includes all automobiles: cars trucks and even hybrids. The big auto manufacturers have all know this for years and have made more efficient transmissions over time. The factory rating for horsepower and torque are numbers taken from the flywheelwhich means that they are numbers taken from the engine only. Real world numbers are gathered from the wheels wheel horse power. So if you buy a new Nissan 350z rated from the factory at 280 horsepower..it really is only putting down around 239 hp to the wheels..Darn transmission!
But now Volvo has come up with an ingenious idea for Hybrid cars. Eliminate the Transmission altogether! Well that was simple enoughbut wait.how will the car get going then without a transmission? Ahhvery good young grasshopper. The Volvo ReCharge packs a small electric motor in each wheel so that no power is lost in the drivetrain. popsci.com/cars/article/200803/howitworkstomorrowshybrid
The electric wheel motors will be powered by electro magnets and computers. All stuff that is way over my head. Just think of it as cool Bullet Train or roller coaster technology. Nevertheless.a pretty smart idea. Of course the car will run on battery power for a certain number of miles before the diesel engine kicks on. And since the engine will not be connected to a transmission; the power made will be transferred more efficiently to the batteries or a fuel cell. All of this adds up to a 160 MPG car..Hopefully this technology will reach us before our economy collapses due to skyrocketing gas prices!
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How Avoid Junk Yards To Buy The Con Rod Bushes?
How Avoid Junk Yards To Buy The Con Rod Bushes?
We live in a time where the entire world has been hit by a financial crunch. All the industries and companies have been affected adversely by this especially the automobile industry. So what these auto parts manufacturing companies are doing right now is that they are lowering the cost and the price of various auto parts such as con rod bushes so that people may come and purchase them. They are using internet as a medium thought which they can put their auto parts for sale and pit them against some stiff competition.
Also at this time consumers and car owners are becoming extremely conscious on what to spend their money on or whether the bushes they buy are worth spending or not. A simple advice for consumers is that they must do a full research on the company who is offering them the particular part they are looking for and then compare them with the others who are offering the same product. Who knows they may be offering a cheaper and better quality bushes? It is also advised that they take an experts or a professionals point of view before buying these parts.
Sometimes car owner also resort to going to junk yards to buy the con rod bushes. People must realize that these parts may be cheap and all but are they reliable? Is the yard owner willing to give a guarantee on the part being purchase? Make sure that the scarp yard owner gives you a good deal on the con rod bushes you have purchased and also he gives you a guarantee on the part because if you are not careful you may see your money go down the drain.
About the writer: We live in a time where the entire world has been hit by a financial crunch. All the industries and companies have been affected adversely by this especially the automobile industry information by Vishnu.
Car Stereo Suppliers Raise Prices
Car Stereo Suppliers Raise Prices
Most suppliers are attempting to pass the costs on directly to consumers while keeping retail margins steady so many are raising the actual minimum advertised price MAP on select products Infinity just announced increases on select speakers effective Aug. 1.
Rockford increased prices on a speakerbyspeaker basis which went into effect July 7 by 10 to 25 wholesale or up to 50 MAP. It raised prices on accessories by 2 percent to 10 percent.
JL Audio increased prices up to 5 percent or up to 100 on certain speakers which went into effect June 15. Marketing VP Manville Smith noted In a woofer you have an aluminum basket steel in the back and top plates copper in the voice coil plastics used in the cone which are made of oil derivatives. Copper is up 45 percent steel is up 60 percent aluminum is up 12 percent this year alone and was climbing the year before that and we all know how much oil has increased. And the price of oil directly affects the transportation.
MTX raised it Bassslammer and Coustic prices on July 1 while holding dealer margins steady it said.
Several industry members said Audiovox raised prices 9 percent on amplifiers and 10 percent on subwoofers but Audiovox did not return calls to TWICE.
Retailers said they are reluctant to pass on the increases as business is already down but they will be forced to do so eventually. Industry members also said that other suppliers are expected to raise prices when they introduce their 2009 lines.
About the writer: Justina Mathews writes issues that currently affect the performance car enthusiast. She also writes about issues that affect the street tuner industry as well as import scene lifestyle. She’s a staff writer for fuel systems.