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Mercedes-Benz E-Class Top Model Goes Carbon Fiber In 2015

Green Car Reports

According to CAR magazine. We'd be hard-pressed to call it exciting though, rapid AMG models excepted. That could be about to change however, as one example of the model's next generation will be very different from the others.

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Dow Automotive providing BETAMATE aluminum binding adhesives for Ford F-150

Green Car Congress

In 2014, R&D Magazine recognized BETAMATE 1630 as one of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced in the past year. BETAMATE 1630 enables the use of dissimilar substrates, such as carbon fiber composites with aluminum or light-weight steel, to achieve a weight savings of 70 – 100 kg per vehicle.

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Ricardo TorqStor flywheel energy storage technology receives SAE 2014 World Congress Tech Award

Green Car Congress

The Tech Award recipients were announced today by the editors of Automotive Engineering magazine, based on engineering innovation, uniqueness, potential for real-world production application and potential benefit for industry customers and end users. Ricardo’s TorqStor. Click to enlarge.

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Biofuel car ‘most expensive in the world’

Green Cars News

The world’s most expensive car is a biofuelled-car, a list from US magazine Forbes reveals. The annual list published by the magazine reveals that the US$2.21 Sweden’s Koenigsegg named the car the Trevita, which means ‘three Whites’ in Swedish after its diamond-coloured carbon fiber-weave [.].

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

You switch the mode on by dialing it up on the Ferrari’s dramatic steering wheel, which integrates a cool arc of LED lights on its carbon-fiber rim to cue drivers to shift. In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0 Ferrari conservatively quotes a 2.5-second And don’t forget sound.

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