Toyota is aiming to further enhance their hybrids with new developments aiming to improve efficiency by ten percent by using a new power semiconductor technology. Semiconductors play a key role in hybrid vehicles as they govern the power flow between the battery and electric motor. Unfortunately, the power control units account for around 25% of […]
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Reinvigorating past classic names is nothing new, you only have to look as far as the small car driven unfathomably hard on nearly every major motorway around the country, the BMW MINI to see what a revitalised name can bring to what is essentially nothing to do with the past that the same name conjures
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The 30th April marked International Noise Awareness Day (INAD), a day launched by the Center for Hearing and Communication (CHC). Nissan took the opportunity to use the event as an excuse to exercise their all electric LEAF. The World Health Organisation (WHO) states at least 13.5% of Europeans are exposed to road traffic noise at
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Ho-Pin Tung – the first Chinese driver to ever test a Formula 1 car – reckons that the all-new FIA Formula E Championship will feature ‘super-close’ racing, after testing the fully-electric Spark-Renault STR_01E race car for the first time last week. Tung, who has tested F1 cars for Williams and Renault, piloted the single-seater at
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Formula E is gaining traction as the new line-up of TV presenters has been announced. Nicki Shields will be track side and in the pitts giving up to the minute information on what’s going on as it happens during the races plus Jack Nicholls will be in the commentary box and joined by four time
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Nissan have been playing with a new water repelling (hydrophobic) product called Ultra-Ever Dry by applying it to the paint on a Nissan Note. The idea of the coating is to aid in keeping the car clean longer since it repells water, oil and mud incredibly well. Nissan will be testing the coating with a
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GT Academy winners Wolfgang Reip and Lucas Ordóñez – plus three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama – have a totally new set of buttons to learn when they jump behind the wheel of the Nissan ZEOD RC. While Reip and Ordóñez began their racing career pushing buttons on their PlayStation controllers, the talented racers
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Three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama will join Nissan GT Academy winners Lucas Ordóñez and Wolfgang Reip on the driver line-up for the revolutionary electric Nissan ZEOD RC at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Motoyama will make his fourth Le Mans start aboard the Nissan racer which combines a 300 horsepower electric powertrain with a 400 horsepower/40 kilogram/1.5 liter turbocharged petrol engine. The Japanese ace completed his first
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Children’s car seats are historically bulky, hard to move and tedious to mount. This is why Volvo Cars has designed a lightweight and inflatable rearward-faced child seat concept using ground breaking technology. The seat is safe, easy to pack and carry and will enable parents to use it in many situations not practical with the
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No, not an April fools, instead Land Rover really have created new technology that makes the front end of their vehicles almost invisible to the driver by using a heads up display. Sorry to disappoint all sci-fi fans and lovers of invisible machinery. Pioneering technology is being developed to give Land Rover drivers a digital
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