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New Pneumatic Hybrid Engine Could Save Gasoline?

Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 9:24 PM

Lino Guzzella, Professor of Thermotronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, believes he has a better idea for hybrid auto engines.In Guzzella’s pneumatic hybrid, a tank of compressed air would be grafted onto a car engine instead of an electric unit. That air would be released into the engine by an electronically controlled valve to produce motion; gasoline can be injected at the same time for quicker response.In early testing, the new engine produced a fuel savings of one-third over the gas engine alone, but Guzzella’s team says savings could reach 50% in cities because of the nature of the design, which would recharge the compressed air tank during braking.

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Nanotech catalysts For Alcohol- Powered Green Cars

Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 10:01 PM

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new nanotechnology catalyst that could make alcohol-powered fuel cells possible for the first time.Like batteries that never die, fuel cells convert hydrogen and oxygen into water while producing electricity. However, hydrogen is difficult to produce and explosively dangerous to store and transport.

As an alternative, hydrogen-rich compounds like ethanol - basically, pure alcohol - can be oxidised into the hydrogen ions and electrons that are needed to generate electricity. Up until now, though, scientists have been unable to find a catalyst capable of breaking the bonds between ethanol's carbon atoms.

The DOE's breakthrough is to develop an electrocatalyst, made from platinum and rhodium atoms on carbon-supported tin dioxide nanoparticles, that can break carbon bonds at room temperature, with just carbon dioxide as a by-product.

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New green car developed using Quantum Technologies

Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 posted by posted by Mak @ 3:00 AM

In 2008 many of the top motor shows were dominated by green cars and this year looks to be no different with Fisker Automotive planning to debut a new vehicle at the event.

The manufacturer, which bills itself as a ‘green American premium sports car company’ will be taking the wraps off the Fisker Karma S, which will be powered by a Q-DRIVE powertrain that has been developed in co-operation with Quantum Technologies.The Q-DRIVE technology will give the vehicle a 50 mile range on a single charge to its lithium-ion battery pack. However, there is no sacrifice of power as the vehicle is capable of up to 403 horsepower from two electric motors.

The company is based in Irvine, California, and has also opened up an engineering centre in Pontiac in an effort to streamline its production process.It promises to be an interesting few weeks for the manufacturer, which will announce details of the Karma S at a news conference in the Cobo Centre on January 12.

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