Monday, June 15th, 2009
Traveling can prove to be a problem for most, especially if their itinerary is clouded and doesn’t have a real detailed plan. One problem is destination and now a new website aims to erase all that. The website is A Day’s Outing, a free online search tool for short-distance day trips and weekend outings, offers ideas for summer trips on just one tankful of gas. Plan the perfect trip with them and you can save yourself the burden of burning gas economically.
A Day’s Outing helps people plan the perfect short-distance trip by revealing the undiscovered special events and unique destinations that surround them, whether the outings are thirty minutes or a few hours away. A Day’s Outing uses a person’s starting location, personal interests and desired travel distance to provide a customized list of activities and destinations.
So with the Summer coming up, traveling to certain places should be the only problem left. Now they have a suitable ally to help them program their trip, resulting in a worthy vacation and of course savings on fuel costs.
(Source) Press
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Auto EV Japan Co. announces the development of a small, low-power air conditioner for electric cars that can operate without significantly reducing travel distance. Standard car air-conditioning systems typically use a gas coolant to provide the heat and cold used to modify the air that is blown into the passenger compartment. This requires a power-hungry compressor and a vaporization chamber, adding both size and energy requirements to the system.
In the case of the Girasole, the two-seater that Auto EV began selling in September of 2007, a regular air conditioner can steal away half of the 120km the electric car would otherwise be able to travel on a full charge. But the new air conditioner consumes half as much power so even with the cooler running the Girasole can travel around 100km.
The new system is based on a Peltier device, a plate-shaped semiconductor device that cools down on one side and heats up on the other when subjected to an electric current. The device is fitted into the car’s air-blowing unit and hooked up to a dedicated radiator and to piping that circulates water. Electricity to the Peltier device is supplied from a lithium ion battery fitted under the car.
Auto EV Japan plans to market the new air conditioner for the Girasole starting this summer, priced at about 200,000 yen (US$2,020).
(Source) Trading Markets
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