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Giorgetto Giugiaro designs world’s fastest hybrid powered by Toyota hybrid synergy drive

Feb 21st, 2009 | By Premnath Sah | Category: Cars & Bikes, Sport, concept cars, green

Quaranta is an “extreme”, clean-technology project embodying 40 years of styling research and engineering celebrated by Italdesign Giugiaro in Geneva. The “Quaranta” project is a concept car designed to celebrate Italdesign Giugiaro’s forty years of business in styling and technological research at the service of the automotive sector. The Quaranta is an “extreme” product, an environment-friendly, 4WD super  sports-car which incorporates a series of innovative aspects: its styling, but also its drive technology, which combines a hybrid engine with solar energy, and its internal layout which, despite its mid-mounted rear engine, can accommodate three adults and a child, also providing a generous luggage compartment.

Specification:

Length (mm) 4450
Height (mm) 1230
Height from ground (mm) 165 / 230
Wheelbase (mm) 2620
Front/Rear overhang (mm) 960 / 758 (1014 / 808)
Front/rear width (mm) 1980 / 1982
Front/rear track (mm) 1759 / 1697
Front tires 275 / 35 / R20 Vredestein
Rear tires 275 / 40 / R20 Vredestein
Rims 9 ½ x 20” OZ
Windscreen angle of incidence 70°
Weight (kg) 1400
Drive 4WD
Front suspensions “Push-rod” type with overlapped triangular wishbones and central mono-shock-absorber
Rear suspensions Push-rod” type with overlapped triangular wishbones and two shock-absorbers

Values and driving performance :

Displacement (cm3) V6 3311
Max. power (kW/rpm) 155/5600
System total power (kW) 200
Max. torque (Nm/rpm) 288/4400
Top speed (km/h) 250 (limited)
0 – 100 km/h (sec.) 4.05
Consumption (l/100 km, combined cycle) 7,1
CO2 emissions (g/km, combined cycle) 180


CherryPal review

Dec 13th, 2008 | By Premnath Sah | Category: Gadgets, green

tgdaily has reviewed CherryPal and following are their first impression.

  • CherryPal is as big as a iPod
  • CherryPal weighs about 400gms
  • It does not provide an impression of a solid build quality
  • connection ports are on the front and there is no way to hide any cables
  • The CherryPal feels like a beta product that still needs some work.
  • What is truly impressive, however, is its small size.
  • The CherryPal is based on a Xubuntu distribution
  • When using firefox the performance is extremely slow

It comes with

  • two USB ports,
  • a monitor port,
  • Ethernet interface and
  • a headphone/speaker output

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Energy Myths debunked

Dec 13th, 2008 | By Premnath Sah | Category: General, green

Following points are considered myths and are not true

  • The power used turning my PC on negates any benefits of turning it off
  • My screen saver is saving me energy
  • Turning my PC on and off will reduce its performance and useful life
  • I can’t run updates and patches for PCs in lower-power states
  • My PC users will not tolerate any downtime for power management

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