If you saw the video we posted last week of the Nissan Land Glider concept that leaned and though to yourself if it had one less wheel and looked like the cockpit of a Viper from Battlestar Galactica you would totally buy one, get your checkbook out. BMW has unveiled a new three-wheel concept called the SIMPLE.
I am all for hybrid vehicles, they are a great way to reduce emission and our need for oil. You may think that the only way to get a hybrid is to buy a Prius or something similar from one of the major automakers. You would be wrong, there is a robust DIY community that build their own hybrid and electric vehicles like the xr3 plug-in hybrid and the eD electric DeLorean.
Lexus have announced not one but two hybrids, though we have to say there’s only one of them that we’d like to find in the SlashGear garage. The 2010 Lexus HS 250h, shown here, is the bread & butter of the range, a four-door saloon capable of 35mpg and various combinations of hybrid power. Meanwhile the more exciting model is the Lexus LF-Ch Concept, which you can see after the cut, and which is headed to Europe to show that hybrids don’t have to be slow.
With the automotive market tanking thanks to the poor economy, the boom in auto sales thanks to the cash for clunkers program won’t last much longer. After that, automakers will actually need cars that are affordable and appeal to buyers rather than big government incentives to sell more vehicles.
We were just talking about the availability of the MSI Wind U123 in the U.S. yesterday, but now it seems the MSI Wind U115 Hybrid is coming to a U.K. shop near you starting today as well, which is pretty good news, if you ask me.
One of the big splash at the 2009 PMA, or in digital camera industry for that matter, has to be Samsungs’ NX hybrid camera that launched a day prior to the show. An implementation resembles Micro 4/3, bigger due to larger sensor size, but much compact than DSLR. A new standard hopes to capture 20 percent of global digital still camera market in 3-4 years. It’s an ambitious move in this economy, especially in the cut-throat DSLR business and with the establishing Micro 4/3 on the way. As previously mentioned, the vague press release and our visit to Samsung booth didn’t get much information that’s already out there. Today, team DPR has published an exclusive interview with Samsung executives to find out more about the new hybrid.
The Sony’s PS3 may be shy in gaming department but the DLNA-enabled device is huge in Blu-ray video playback. Despite the console successes in HD movies and multimedia supports but it got completely outsold by the Wii and fallen behind the Xbox 360. Experts were predicting worst to come on the gaming console. The company latest strategy is squeezing that extra space on Blu-ray movie disk with video game- a hybrid Blu-ray combo disk with movie and video game Sony hopes to turn the tide around later this year.
Wow, this thing looks like it belongs in the future! Okay, so 2010 is the future, but you know what I mean. These SmartGauge instrument panels are set to be included in two Ford hybrid models in the year 2010, and if I had any plans of getting a Ford in the next couple of years, I’d be excited.
Nikkei, a Japanese business news source is reporting that Toyota will be unveiling a Prius that will have built-in solar panels. It is also said to be manufactured by Kyocera Corp. There is no official word on this, since Toyota has not actually confirmed the reports just yet.
The Antro Solo is a gas electric hybrid weighing in at a low 600 Lbs. With its carbon fiber chassis, this hybrid gets 150 MPG and has solar panels across the top to help power the electric portion of its engine. Other than weighing 600 Lbs. and getting 150 MPG this Hybrid gas electric solar car can go up to 80 MPH.
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