Justin Bieber's Interpretation to Fisker

Have you ever listen to this song ?

If you are listening for the first time, this is Justing Bieber and now he is just 18-year old. He celebrates his 18th birthday with a car that is brighter than planet Venus at night. 

This is a full electric car with on-board power generator and covered with chrome. And Justin drove in to McDonalds to have vanilla milk shake and McChicken or BigMac menu with a state-of-art car.

Thanks TMZ to deliver this video :)

BMW i8: Hybrid

Here is the BMW i8. The future of BMW cars, i8 is a plug-in hybrid car. i8 has two engines onboard, one eletric (131 PS) and one petrol (3-cylinder 223 PS); this power combination creates a total of 354 PS power and 550 nm of torque. And all the power from the two different engines are transferred to rear wheel or all-wheel depending on the situation! As you would expect, the top speed is limited to 250 kph (155 mph) and accelerates to 100 kph (62 mph) in under five seconds. The electric engine can travel up to 30 km (19 miles) on electric power alone and making no noise at all! If power is required, the petrol engine will be charging the batteries.

Despite being a hybrid, BMW managed to equalise the front and rear weights of the car and created 50:50 hybrid car. Moreover, the i8 is manufactured by lightweight materials to reduce the weight and increase acceleration (carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic).

I totally forgot to mention, it is a plug-in car. You can charge with a plug like you charge your mobile phone. In some cities, there are free chargers available but don't try to charge it in your university or at work. You might need to explain your cleaver way of reducing CO2 to other people!

The rest of the car is similar to BMW, you have the drive switches from ECO PRO to SPORT. It is a two-seater, does not offer a dull hybrid design. Actually, i8 is one of the best-looking hybrid cars on market. I mean in future! Most of the hybrid cars do not have a very appealing looking! And I can assume that, BMW does not wish to offer a dull looking hybrid and destroy its image.

Toyota, i models will be the most solid competitors in future keep in mind!

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New Mercedes S-Class: 2025

Wondering about the next Mercedes S-Class? Unfortunately, I don’t know the next S-Class, but I know the S-Class for 2025! Here is the technical information!

It will powered by four electric engines, no internal combustion (unfortunately) and generating total of 231 PS sustained and 313 PS peak. I don’t know the why two engine output is given. Acceleration is 4.9 seconds to 100 kph (62 mph), thanks to lightweight structure that is only 1760kg. Also, it is capable of accelerating from 80 to 120 kph (50 – 75 mph) in 3.2 seconds! As the electric engines need electricity, it is produced by hydrogen. And hydrogen consumption is 0.79kg/100 km and CO₂ is zero! Estimated range is 1000 km (620 miles). I hope until 2025, there will be more hydrogen filling stations. I don’t know why, but they also provided the luggage capacity, 470 lt. This hydrogen powered light S-Class is capable of achieving 220 kph (137 mph). Batteries are made from lithium-sultur and contents 10 kWh of energy. So, don’t put your finger or mess up with the batteries. And hydrogen tank is capable of accommodating 7.5 kg hydrogen. I guess, it is enough for 

1000 km :)

These figures are amazing, and Mercedes is planning to manufacture this car 14 years later. I am sure that, they are capable of manufacturing this vehicle but I am not confident with the hydrogen filling stations. Still, I don’t see any hydrogen stations are built around or replaced the ordinary stations. And 14 years is not a very long time period for this type of infra-structure change. 

In terms of automotive language, 14 years means two generations. Each seven years, every model is renewed and 14 years is too soon for every manufacturer to move hydrogen technology.  

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Greenness for Green Cars

I am sure you all heard of green vehicles. Hybrids, electric and hydrogen powered ones. I am not going to argue, which of them is more cleaner or are they really environmental. But I will argue on something else! The colour. All these environmental cars are considered as green! Because, green is associated with the grass, tree, leafs and plants.

However, it is quite hard to spot a green car with green paint on! Have you ever think why manufacturers never offer green colour option for the green cars? Because, green colour looks terrible on a car! In my whole life, I have never seen a green painted car. It looks so catastrophic even the most desperate car manufacturer offered the green!

By the way, don’t confuse the green with British Racing Green. It is a totally different green, what I am trying to emphasise the green that is annoying and turns anything into ugly.

Hopefully, I found a solution for green car dilemma. Thanks to GQ UK magazine, there are two options to reflect your greenness. There is one option for men and one for women. If you are men and driving something green and willing to reflect your greenness, here is the opportunity by Cambridge Satchels. British bag manufacturer offers wide range of colours for different bag and they have the exact green for a green car. For women, Sonia By Sonia Rykiel saves you and offer a purse with a wonderful green colour.

From now on, you don’t need to worry on how to reflect your greenness ; you have the opportunity :)

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An electric car in 1899, is it real ?

Actually I wasn’t planning to write for today but ideas kept coming to my mind!

Recently Charlie Chaplin’s one of the movie turn into a global phenomenon for time travel. A lady is passing in front of the camera and she is holding something to her ear and seems like she is talking with that thing. Interestingly this video revealed just couple of weeks ago, since 1920s nobody ever noticed this fact. I don’t wish to talk about the possibility of time travel but I would like to warn for a similar situation.

Nowadays electric cars promoted as something “new” and many people think that they are new technology. Actually they are not! It is a really old technology older than the mobile phone in Chaplin’s movie. In 1899 Ferdinand Porsche produced the first hybrid vehicle on earth. The wheel were the engine, there is no transmission. And it was producing around seven horse powers in 1899! Also it was four wheel drive!

The system is very basic; wheels are the engines, energy comes from battery and battery is charged by petrol engine. Very simple and effective technology. Interesting the Audi A1 e-tron uses the same technology platform. 110 years has passed and this car is not available yet!

If one day a video appears in YouTube and tells, there is a time traveller in Ferdinand Porsche’s video, don’t believe it. We just forgot what have done in 110 years ago!

Note: Toyota Pruis uses a different system, petrol engine can engage with during the drive and also acts as a generator. Ferdinand’s Porsche concept excludes petrol engine from the drive train.

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