The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 17, 2023

The newest vehicle in the pony-car lineup will be priced not to compete with Camaros and Chargers but single-family homes. This limited-edition Mustang is street-legal, though it has been designed in conjunction with the Mustang GT3 race car -- a car that is slated to run at the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year.

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Carbon Fiber Ford Legal Affordable 98

Clean Fleet Report

JULY 2, 2022

Make sure to sign-up for the Clean Fleet Report newsletter (upper right) to be alerted when reviews are posted on several of these cars, trucks and SUVs. – Toyota says the Corolla “rolls into 2023 a changed car.” This overview, in alphabetical order, is a glimpse of what Toyota and Lexus have coming out in the next few months.

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Lexus Toyota Production Tundra 84

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

BMW unveiled the BMW i8 2+2 plug-in hybrid sports car ( earlier post ) today at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show. BMW designed the i8 from the start as a plug-in hybrid sports car boasting agile performance attributes and extraordinary efficiency. The BMW i8 goes on sale in the US in 2014. Click to enlarge. The three-cylinder, 1.5-liter

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BMW Plug-in 2014 MPG 306

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2016

BAC has partnered with Haydale Composite Solutions to create rear wheel arches made out of graphene, and has been putting the material through its paces on the Mono, the world’s only road legal single-seater supercar. Graphene—sheets of carbon just one atom thick—is significantly lighter and stronger than standard carbon fiber.

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Carbon Fiber Legal Carbon 2016 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2014

I think you will see a lot of smaller cars find weight savings with advanced high strength steel. But the C/D car is where you are getting on the fence. A/B/C cars will find solutions with advanced high strength steel, C/D with mixed materials. The cast aluminum or carbon fiber wheels saved 30%. —Tim Skszek.

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Concept Carbon Fiber Vehicles Ford 284

Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2023

The Bionic Phoenix joins UP’s four other Tesla records at Buttonwillow, including Fastest Race-Prepped Model S, Fastest Street Legal Model 3, Model S, and Model Y. For those unfamiliar with the Bionic Phoenix project , the car has run through the gauntlet before becoming what it is today.

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Phoenix Tesla Carbon Fiber Acura 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

taking weight out in the front end for handling), and legal mandates (e.g., How we decide how much goes into aluminum and magnesium vs. carbon fiber is not particularly clear because it depends on the specific components. We are not doing a whole lot with carbon fiber except on specialty applications; it is still very expensive.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 29, 2022

Next stop, hyperspace: The SF90 bullets toward the next corner at a pace that I simply can’t relate to any other car I’ve driven here. The world’s leading sports- and luxury-car brands, together with muscle-car mavens like Dodge, are now pushing the envelope of the relatively inefficient internal combustion engine (ICE).

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Plug-in Ferrari Engine Hybrid 96

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2012

For Quimera, this project is not simply confined to developing environmentally friendly cars that will offer an insight into the future of motorsport. More important than the act of car racing is how we actively evolve and prepare the future for coming generations. Powertrain up to 350kw with carbon or tubular chassis.

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International 2013 Electric Vehicles Carbon Fiber 273

Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2013

With its new architecture, use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and premium mobility service offerings, the “ i3 marks the beginning of a new mobility age ,” said Dr. Reithofer. The lower center of gravity of the i3 and 50:50 weight distribution make an additional contribution to the car’s handling.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Audi is systematically driving forward the electrification of its cars with both high-voltage, electric drive e-tron models as well as lower voltage mild hybrids. The concept study offers sports car-like performance. During boosting, the driver can draw temporarily on 370 kW and more than 800 N·m (590.0 lb-ft) of torque.

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Audi PHEV Diesel Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

This world-beating figure for a road-legal vehicle results from the intelligent interaction of many individual measures. At 100 kWh, the power storage unit developed specifically for the VISION EQXX has almost the same amount of energy as the battery of the EQS, which is already a global benchmark among electric cars currently on the market.

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Mercedes Miles Charging MPH 259