Category Archives: Transport
Monster truck? Neah. Tank with the body of a Hummer? Almost! We stumbled across recently and looked up in awe at this completely modified Hummer, unlike anything we’ve seen before. Now we’ve seen Hummers being modified into limousines and the like. Never ever have we ever seen something like this! Anyways, now that the shock’s set in, this Hummer H1 is designed for South Pole expeditions, and the best part, it’s powered by biodiesel and electricity. No gasoline or any sort of fossil fuels out here. The vehicle earlier was destined to just drink up B99 fuel. However, after a few tweaks and the inclusion of a four-cylinder diesel Volkswagen engine that acts as a generator to power up four electric motors, this one’s gone a lot more eco-friendly.
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Community transport in Florida has turned over to the green side. To travel around Pelican Bay, Florida, you could soon step onto some solar powered transporters that will get you around in a clean way, without puffing up a carbon footprint. A company based in Sarasota, Trans Alliance, will chisel out these solar powered transporters. Owned by the Pelican Bay Foundation, these transporters were officially converted to the vehicles by Trans Alliance. The Pelican Bay Foundation also owns 43 parks, recreation areas, beach front facilities, boardwalks and loads more. Basically a system similar to trams, these resident transporters will use a 460-watt solar charging systems on board producing 400 kWh of electricity. This will help cut out on 22,000 pounds a year!
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Electronic transport is perfect for our over polluted system, as there is very little pollution; however, these need a good and resourceful charging system. To comply with that need, IPT (Induction Power Transfer) was launched in London. Touted to be the world’s first commercially-available wireless electric car charging system, this system come from UK start-up HaloIPT’s stable.
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Amtrak has rolled up its sleeves and is busy preparing for some greener trains that will hit the rails sometime soon. The new locomotives ordered by Amtrak will use lesser electricity than the current ones and 70 of these will be brought from 2013 to 2019 to be used on the Northeast corridor between Washington and Boston and the Keystone Corridor between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. These will replace those good old 64 locomotives, some of them from the 80’s with rail experiences of 3.5 million miles. The shiny new locomotives are built by Siemens AG costing $466 million. The new locomotives will also use regenerative breaking systems that will help send back energy generated from breaking to the grid.
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Here’s what happens when you hook on some solar panels on a bike. You end up with something like the THEKPV. The Hybrid Electric Kinetic Photovoltaic Vehicle by Terry Hope is the greenest bike we’ve ever come across. Powered by a 50-watt solar array packed with a battery and a capacitor to boost its acceleration capabilities, this one also boasts regenerative breaking and weighs just around 44 pounds or 20 kilos. With a total power of 424 watts, the THEKPV uses A123 batteries with 396 Wh and a Maxwell capacitor with 28 Wh.
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A bug. That’s all that came to our minds first when we saw this cute little vehicle by Nissan. An all-electric New Mobility Concept vehicle, this one keeps its act clean with absolute zero emissions. The New Mobility Concept could just pave the way for car-sharing programs in the future, not conceived yet today, since vehicles like these are hard to come by. With room for just two, the vehicle by Nissan could work great for a two-mode EV car sharing program wherein it could be used as a private commuter vehicle through the day and a corporate car for business hours. The vehicle will work just great for short commutes owing to its maneuverability, small size and clean drive.
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Well, the Tesla has finally got a mean machine to compete with when it comes to electric supercars. We’ve had electric cars show up before, loads of them. These aren’t made to be sporty or drop any amount of G-force in your lap with astounding speeds. Li-ion Motors from North Carolina has come up with this super sweet super car, all electric, the INIZIO. Hailed as the first all American-made electric supercar, the INIZIO can drive up to 250 miles powered by electricity alone. The car boasts a jaw dropping top speed of 170 mph, not that we haven’t seen cars go faster than this, but then again, it’s electric! With room for two, not our ideal electric family car, the INIZIO also packs in some luxuries like leather or suede Recaro seating with heating and cooling features, a 12-inch subwoofer, digital surround sound and a lot more to make the guys waiting at the signal stare with wide eyed wonder.
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In the future, driving to work or the grocery store across the neighborhood probably won’t be such a gas-guzzling affair. That maybe because there’s a better alternative than driving down there time and again. You could simply use an electric bike. Now we’ve seen a bunch of these concepts that need to be plugged into the grid to charge up. Designer Raymond Bessemer however came up with the Cyomo Electric Bike, a contraption on two wheels that powers up with energy from the sun. Parking this bike in a sunny place charges it up, owing to the fact that it’s loaded with solar cells. These solar panels are foldable and fold in vertically when you need to hop on to the Cyomo.
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We’ve come across Better Place’s solar-powered electric vehicle battery switching stations before. Bay Area California will now play home to some of these too, all thanks to a $6.9 million, three-year project. San Francisco and San Jose will have four battery swap stations and 61 electric taxi cabs that you could flag down. All this will be operated by local cab companies Yellow Cab and Yellow Checker Cab. The switch station operates by using a contraption that simply swaps old drained-out EV batteries for charged-up fresh ones. All this is done in the same time it would take to fill up a tank of gas, and that too with the help of solar power!. This certainly is a quicker way to have the cabs up and running when out of charge instead of plugging them into EV chargers and waiting hours for them to juice up.
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Now we’re used to watching high-speed cop chases on TV with a bunch of cop-cars following behind a likely suspect with their sirens blaring. Go-Ped however has come up with a stealthy little scooter that could just be the newest mode of transport for our city police. Now it sure would look silly watching a cop on a scooter in your rear view mirror asking you to pull up. Forget the chases; this one’s made for patrolling only. The PPV, or portable patrol vehicle, is powered by green energy, electricity. Using a T2V3 Torkinator motor, this one’s juiced by a one kilowatt lithium battery. With speeds of up to 30 miles an hour and a load carrying capability of 300lb, the scooter boasts a range of 30 miles.
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