Daily Archives: April 12, 2012

At just 7.6 feet long and 4 feet wide, the minimalist Renault Twizy is a vehicle…

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At just 7.6 feet long and 4 feet wide, the minimalist Renault Twizy is a vehicle you probably won't see on American roads anytime soon.

However, we will probably start to vehicles with a similarly small footprint by the end of the decade. The +General Motors EN-V http://www.youtube.com/user/generalmotorsenv?ob=0 is likely to evolve from the two-wheeled Segway-based balancing vehicles first shown two years ago in Shanghai to something more like this. These tiny electric commuters obviously can't meet everyone's needs, but they could certainly do the trick in crowded urban centers especially when combined with autonomous capabilities that allow them to park themselves and be summoned by smartphone when needed.

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Until now the cost of carbon fiber composites has restricted them to high dollar… 3

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Until now the cost of carbon fiber composites has restricted them to high dollar performance cars like the McLaren F1 or Porsche Carrera GTS. In recent years they have become available in some slightly more affordable machines like the Corvette ZR1 and Tesla Roadster but even those are in $100K+ territory. BMW and other automakers have been working on more affordable applications of carbon fiber for vehicles like the BMW i3 but even those aren't really mainstream.

+Ford Motor Company and Dow Automotive Systems announced that they would collaborate on efforts to bring carbon fiber to the masses. You probably won't find any structural carbon composites in a Focus or Fusion until at least the latter half of this decade, but weight reductions are coming and these advanced materials may well be a big part of how we get there.

http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=36330

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Ford and Dow Team Up to Bring Low-Cost, High-Volume Carbon Fiber Composites to Next-Generation Vehicles | Ford Motor Company Newsroom
Ford and Dow Team Up to Bring Low-Cost, High-Volume Carbon Fiber Composites to Next-Generation Vehicles. Weight reductions of up to 750 pounds on future Ford vehicles are key to meeting fuel economy a…

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Wow! combine this with an LTE MiFi in your pocket and you're ready to rock!

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Wow! combine this with an LTE MiFi in your pocket and you're ready to rock!

Reshared post from +Hubert Nguyen

To make a long story short: this idea rocks!

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LiveStream Broadcaster: portable real-time video encoding for LiveStream
LiveStream has just released the LiveStream Broadcaster, a small box that is a self-contained, autonomous, H.264 real-time video encoder and uploader. The incoming video from a camera enters the box v…

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