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Stories tagged with: moped
CAR- Perfect Tuning
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http://www.torquecars.com/
Catalysts are a vital component in our modern tree hugging environmentally conscious society. First Torque Cars will look at what a catalyst does and how it works. A catalyst is actually a term used to explain anything which accelerates or performs a chemical reaction. In a car the exhaust fumes are fed through a matrix of ceramic honeycomb lined with precious metals. As the metals heat up they cause the gases flowing through them to react and change into less harmful substances. In a 2 way diesel catalyst the CO2 and O2 into 2CO2 (carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and partially burnt fuel into carbon dioxide and water) Diesels also have particulate filters.
Petrol catalysts:
3 way catalysts are used in modern petrol engines. These convert nitrogen oxide into nitrogen and oxygen, carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons (partially burnt fuel) into carbon dioxide and water. A catalyst will die if it has unborn fuel entering it or it is used whilst it is cool. Therefore you should avoid jump starting a car with a catalyst and you must avoid short journeys. We will then see if there are power gains from a sports or high flow cat and compare these with the removal of the catalyst altogether.
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Submitted by electricscooters
40 months, 3 weeks, 1 day, 9 hours agoTags: car, bike, motorcycle, sports bikes, cars, auto, moped 
Bike is B-KING
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http://www.motorbikestoday.com/
Suzuki showed a truly ridiculous concept bike at the Tokyo show. Powered by a supercharged Hayabusa engine and with a wealth of high tech gizmos - fingerprint starting, GPS navigation, voice controlled anti theft devices and the like - the B-King had radical styling to go with the overall concept. Obviously, this was just a concept bike and so was never going to get built, no matter how the audience clamored for it. And clamor they did. The B-King (the name comes as an abbreviation of the original Boost King from the Supercharged engine) probably created more of a stir than any other concept bike we've seen. But it really wasn't viable for production. So when Suzuki confirmed that they were going to build it we were pretty surprised at first, before becoming deeply cynical of what would come out. We've seen it before, when a radical concept bike has been released as a production machine and the only real similarity is the name and, perhaps, some faint styling cues. When it was announced that the production bike wouldn't be supercharged we all nodded sagely. See?
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Submitted by electricscooters
40 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours agoTags: bike, motorcycle, sports bikes, car, auto, motor, moped 
World's Most Advanced Electric Sports Car
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http://www.evworld.com/
Ricardo Engineering, headquartered in the United Kingdom, but with offices globally, including a new battery research facility in Michigan, has been helping develop advanced automotive vehicles and systems for 100 years.
Working either independently or collaboratively under contract, the company has amassed a great deal of expertise and knowledge in vehicle dynamics, transmissions and power trains.
Paul Boskovitch, Ricardo's chief engineer for advanced hybrid systems, shares some of his firm's insights and perspective in this 22-minute presentation delivered at the 2008 ACG Advanced Automotive Battery Investment Summit in Chicago this past June. In this talk, he focuses on both current and future technology trends as they apply to hybrid vehicles, especially their all-important battery technology.
As part of its Centennial Celebration, which included the official unveiling of the Chevrolet Volt E-Flex extended-range electric car, General Motor's hosted an experts panel discussion on the future of transportation in the 21st Century.
Panel members include: Dr. Larry Burns, GM's VP, Research & Development; Dr. Mark Duval, EPRI; Dr. Don Hillenbrand, ANL; John Gasesa, Casesa Shapiro Group, LLC; Chris Paine, director 'Who Killed the Electric Car?; and Joel Makower, Executive Editor Greener World Media, Inc., acting as moderator.
The topics and questions spanned a wide range of issues from discussions of the technology in the Volt to the current economic turmoil on Wall Street and its potential impact on the industry and consumers.
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Submitted by electricscooters
40 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours agoTags: motorcycle, vehicle, car, auto, bike, motor, moped, electric
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