Saturday, February 6th, 2010
For the car collectors, feast your eyes on this antique vehicle. Up for sale is this 1925 Bentley Three Liter Tourer Coachwork which comes in green over tan. It comes very well-maintained with an alloy bonnet, a nickel radiator, side-mounted spares and an auxiliary light mounted on the windscreen.
The vehicle still even wears its UK registration, CR 9914 and while these models didn’t make it to the air-conditioning age, it comes with an auxiliary fan just in case you decide to use it and experience some heat in traffic. This car has a storied history and for the interested car collectors, pricing is only available upon request.
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
One part of improving the car infrastructure is the gradual shift toward digital technology. And by this we don’t just mean the entertainment and navigational systems that most cars carry today. This includes the analog parts that include improving the temperature control systems.
This includes addressing the critical fluid systems that will help improve the life of fluids of various engine components. With the Digital Rotary Control Valve, this can be done. The Digital Rotary Control Valve (DRCV) will provide a “true” powertrain thermal management system that, after mapping, will always allow the engine/transmission to function at their “known” optimum operating temperatures, under all driving conditions. This is sort of like implanting in the engine to have a mind of its own.
“When you think of the sophisticated systems in a vehicle today, it comes as a surprise that we still use analog systems to control the interaction of the engine with the radiator system,” said Hollis, director of Advanced Research — MileageMatrix, Inc. “After all, those fluids protect the vehicle’s most important operating systems – the engine and driveline – and running them too high or too low simply wastes energy.”
(Source) Press
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
We have seen a lot of alternative fuels being experimented on and apparently this one takes the cake. Can you imagine a car running on chocolate? That car must have some kinda sweet tooth to run swiftly on chocolate-based biodiesel!
This story from TG Daily says researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK have now built a Formula 3 racing car capable of taking corners at 125 mph… running on biodiesel made from chocolate:
The car meets all Formula 3 racing standards except for its biodiesel engine, which is configured to run on fuel derived from waste chocolate and vegetable oil. Formula 3 cars currently cannot use biodiesel. The team hopes to enter it in some sort of race soon, though, said [project manager James] Meredith.
Components made from plants form the mainstay of the car’s make up, including a race specification steering wheel derived from carrots and other root vegetables, a flax fibre and soybean oil foam racing seat, a woven flax fibre bib and plant oil-based lubricants.
The biodiesel engine is configured to run on fuel derived from waste chocolate and vegetable oil. It also incorporates a radiator coated in a ground-breaking emission destroying catalyst.
(Source) Domestic Fuel
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