Auto Moto Best: February 2016

Electric car Visio.M

About two years ago experts of the companies BMW, Daimler and scientists at the Technical University of Munich (Technical University Munich, TUM) have teamed up to create casual, comfortable, and safe electric car, which even then was named Visio.M. Two years passed, during which the future of the electric car have never been heard, and finally, the development team decided to introduce their offspring to the General public.

Small double electric car Visio.M weighs only 410 pounds, this is almost two times less than the nearest class electric Smart ForTwo car. The reason for such a low weight car Visio.M is that its designers used lightweight carbon fiber and aluminum as main materials of the exterior and interior of this car. In addition, the car window is made of transparent polycarbonate, which is exactly two times lighter than automotive glass.

Chevrolet FNR

This year, many car companies have launched their own concepts, which reflect their point of view on the future of electric cars-robots. First at the beginning of the year, the company Mercedes has unveiled its intriguing concept of the F 015, and one of the most exciting concepts presented later at the Geneva motor show, Italdesign Giugiaro began. A little behind in this case is known to Chevrolet, but now they have corrected this situation by presenting their point of view on the cars of the future. Their "futuristic capsule" FNR is teeming with shapes, technologies and innovative ideas of the next generation.

EOssc2 - car-crab

As they grow all of the modern city is turning into more lively places in the centre which is quite difficult to find a free place to Park the car, especially if the period coincides with the peak in business activity. But the German engineers from the Center for robotics DFKI, Bremen, invented an elegant and innovative solution - a small electric car that can turn on a dime, started shrinking in size and move sideways like a crab, squeezing in such places, where you will not be able to fit none of the traditional car.

Flying car-robot TF-X(TM)

The company Terrafugia is trying to create a flying car robot

Until recently the development of robotic vehicles and flying cars were moving on their own and not cross paths. But recently notorious company Terrafugia has decided to arrange the intersection of the above lines and this intersection should be the project of a flying car robot called the TF-X(TM), sometime in the misty future, will be able to travel on roads and fly in the sky all by itself, without any human intervention in this case.

The electric vehicle Venturi VBB-3

The previous and current year was a bad time for racing on the bottom of a dried-up salt lake Bonneville Salt Flats. A large amount of water spilled during the heavy rains, made hard and smooth salt wet, loose and uneven. Conditions for the races were so bad that racing competition is not the Bonneville Speed Week is held for the second year in a row. However, the Venturi team from Ohio did not wait for "with the wind" and last week they made the race their electric car VBB-3, which produced results that are very far from the expected, but which, nevertheless, sufficed to establish a new speed record.

The longest motorcycle in the world

Bharat Singh is Parmar (Bharat Sinh Parmar), 30-year-old craftsman from Gujarat, India, took as a basis the customary motorcycle and subjected him to design radical transformation. As a result, the length of unusual two-wheeled vehicles amounted to 26.29 meters, Parmara even managed to pass on their offspring a distance of one hundred meters. It was not easy, given the fact that the bike doesn't have extra wheels, not giving it to overturn, but this was sufficient to meet the range of existing conditions. And now motorcycle Parmara, according to the World Record Academy, is the longest motorcycle in the world and gets its place in the Book of Guinness world records.

Toyota Kymeta Concept

In the framework of the North American international auto show (North American International Auto Show, NAIAS), held this year in Detroit, January 12, 2016, the company Toyota Motor Corp. showed a concept car "Kymeta Concept". The main feature of this car, built on the model of the Mirai FCV (Fuel-Cell Vehicle), is that constant communication with external information systems and the Internet it uses innovative satellite communication system.

The Hyperloop Pod Competition Competition

The project of a futuristic Hyperloop transport system has become even one step closer to its practical implementation due to the competition of the Hyperloop Pod Competition, which was held last weekend at the University of Texas A&M. In this competition attracted 115 teams, each of which will present to the jury his version of the construction of passenger capsules for the transport system. The winner was the team of Massachusetts technological Institute, which, along with 22 teams, will produce a full-sized prototype of the passenger capsule, which is in the middle of this year will take part in a trial on the experimental area of the transport system Hyperloop.

The truck-robot

In Switzerland, plans for the construction of automated underground freight transport system

In countries and cities where every citizen has his own car, sooner or later there is a problem with congestion. And after a while there comes a time when this problem can not be solved by building more roads. In Switzerland, in which, according to forecasts, the volume of trucks will increase by 45 percent over the next 15 years, almost no space for building new roads and highways, thus to address the transport problem required some creative and innovative solution.

Rover Sherpas

When in the Internet appeared the first information about the Rover called "Sherpas", many doubted the possibility of practical realization of this project. Enough compact body, sandwiched between four huge wheels with a high cross looks too strange to be true. However, the group of Russian enthusiasts from St. Petersburg have managed to realize this project and the first prototype Rover Sherpa will be demonstrated at the exhibition "Hunting and fishing" which opening will take place in the near future.

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Toyota Kymeta Concept