Category Archives: Transport
Air is readily available everywhere on earth. And the sun is ever present, shining down on our planet. Well, what could indeed be a better way to power a mode of transportation using these to forever present elements! Powered by a DiPietro air engine from Melbourne’s Engineair Pty Ltd. This beast on two wheels christened the O2 Pursuit is an air powered motorcycle, using a unique technique to power up. The motorcycle uses solar powered air compressors that generate all the energy it requires to make it move. That’s not all. This one has
no emissions whatsoever with a zero carbon footprint, making it green and eco-friendly. The O2 Pursuit is silent as a mouse, though with all its bulk sure doesn’t make it seem so. And let the bulk not decieve you! This bike is lightweight, and makes sure you won’t be straining your backbone controlling it.
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Bikes come and bikes go most of them fade away with the past, while a few burn tire marks in our memories, making them unforgettable legends. Here’s yet another bike that joins the ranks of bikes like those. Developed by Agility Global Ltd, this bike redefines the term bad-ass, and is making its debut at the MCN London Motorcycle Show. Furiously fast, the Agility Saietta as its been christened is available in two models, the Saietta S and the Saietta R. Both these bikes are powered by electric juice and promise no emissions whatsoever, keeping the air sparkly clean. And of course, with all its features, power, speed and great looks, this one sure costs a fat stack of money. The Saietta S costs about $16,200 and the R model will be about $22,650, a bit quicker than the S version.
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Steam engines are more of a blast from the past these days, with high-tech energy powered engines doing the rounds. Usually associated with slow chugging sets of wheels, steam power is just about to prove the world wrong! Here’s something we never expected. Vehicles using steam engines setting land speed records! Currently, the fastest steam land speed record is set at 148 mph (238 km/h) marked in the year 2009. Chuk Williams’ U.S. Land Steam Record (USLSR) Team is busy drawing plans to break this record soon with the LSR Streamliner using a heat-regenerative external combustion Cyclone engine. The Cyclone runs on just about any fuel that you could lay your hands on, and that includes biofuels too.
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Now the greenest way to travel around on wheels sure has to be a bicycle, powered by your feet. It leaves no smoke, no carbon, requires no fuel and hugs the environment. At times though, pedal power gets a bit to tiresome, and nothing works better than an added touch by an electric motor. What’s even better is when this bike folds up completely, making it easier for you to pack it up in your car’s trunk and unfold it to ride away if ever stuck in traffic. The Batribike Micro does all this, and packs a 14.4V battery with enough juice to have this one touch 12mph speeds with a range of 12 to 15 miles. Weighing in at 21lbs, this bike sure makes pedal power a lot easier with the electric assist.
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The first car on the surface of the earth to match up to EURO VI exhaust emission standards has just rolled out of Brabus, packing in a Brabus ECO PowerXtra D6S performance kit snuggled inside the all new Mercedes S 350 BlueTEC. The car boasts an additional 55 hp (54 bhp) / 40.5 kW of power with a peak torque of 690 Nm (509 lb-ft), while this is the first tuning kit that met the EURO VI emission standards that will take effect in 2014. The car with the BRABUS tuning managed to stay well below the emissions standards by a good 30%. The maximum power output for these models increases to 313 hp (308 bhp) / 230 kW at a low 3,600 rpm and peak torque grows to 690 Nm (509 lb-ft) and the kit is available for all four body styles of the Mercedes E 350 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY and for the new CLS 350 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY model.
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Almost every city these days has a mass transportation system, be it a bus service, the subway, trains, and loads more. None of these ever do really blend perfectly into the environment though. A design by Iosa Ghini Associati Srl however changes that, the People Mover. This one is essentially a monorail system that fits perfectly into the environment and natural surroundings like the right pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The People Mover might just be more than a concept soon in Bologna and compromises of 5084 meters of track and two terminals. Parallel to this route is a walkway that allows for easy access and emergency exits. Using photovoltaic panels, this one uses perforated steel that allows in natural lighting at stations while plants growing in dedicated green spaces help keep the air naturally cool.
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Riding a bicycle sure helps save a load of energy, taken that you chose to leave your gas-o-holic car home and opt for a greener pair of wheels. Well, riding a bicycle in the town of Krommenie, near Amsterdam could be a lot greener than it already is, if all goes as planned by the government of North Holland. Plans are currently being drawn up to install solar panels on a cycle path! The project known as the Solaroad developed by the TNO research institute with the Province of North Holland, the Ooms Avenhorn Group and Imtech is yet in its conceptual stages and might just show up in 2012. Using thick concrete blocks covered in a 1cm thick layer of silicon solar cells and protected by toughened glass, this cycle path will generate energy by soaking in the sun, while you calmly ride across it.
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When it comes to luxury, in a sedan, nothing gets greener and more fuel efficient than Lincoln’s new baby, the 2011 MKZ Hybrid car. The car picks up a lot from the company’s Fusion Hybrid car. The car is rated at 41 mpg city, 36 highway and 39 mpg combined and produces 191 horsepower from a parallel hybrid powertrain. That’s not all. The car also has some cutting edge technology snug in its dashboard with a Sync system and a touch screen interface that hooks on the entertainment system, climate control options and Bluetooth hands-free calling, though we seriously don’t suggest speaking on a phone while driving.
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Mercedes Benz has come up with a unique way to show the B-Class F-Cell’s efficiency and suitability for everyday use, a World Drive! This is yet another way of campaigning for a world network of hydrogen refueling stations. The journey will last for a whole 125 days with the cars traveling across four continents and 14 countries. Kicking off at Stuttgart, traveling on to Lisbon and then air-freighted to the continental U.S., the Merc will travel across and then over to Australia, from where a boat will take it to Shanghai. The car will then be driven across Asia and back home to Stuttgart. Using a 100 kW/136 hp electric motor, which develops torque of 290 Nm delivering dynamism from the instant the engine starts to turn, the car has an NEDC consumption (New European Driving Cycle) equivalent to only 3.3 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers.
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Now an e-bike and a motorcycle do leave many confused while spotting the exact differences these days, with a hair-thin line separating the two. Designer and entrepreneur Michael Hecken and Karl-Heinz Nicolai collaborated for the Grace bike, with the frame manufactured at the well established Nicolai brand’s factory. Using a pedal-assisted engine which can attain speeds of up to 45km/h and pump out 500 to 1300 watts, the bike called the Grace Pro Race also sports a handlebar-mounted computer with an integrated headlight and a
CNC-machined block of aluminum that throws up information like the level of charge in the lithium ion cells. The motor lies in the back on the rear hub. A one hour charge gives this one a range of 30 to 50 kilometers.
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