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Escort Passport 9500ix Radar/Laser Detector
The Escort Passport 9500ix is an intelligent and effective radar detector. It detect all bands of speed enforcement radar (X, K, Ka, and Ku) from both front and rear, and its programmable GPS-enabled circuitry ensures you won’t be caught off-guard by hidden speed traps or pesky speed cameras. It even eliminates annoying false alarms. The Passport’s GPS system takes advantage of the same satellites used for GPS navigation to pinpoint your exact location and compares it to the detector’s on-board database of red light and speed camera locations. As you approach a potential threat, the detector provides an instant audible and visual alert. Distinct audible, visual, and voice alerts provide a separate warning for each band of radar, as well as laser, and traffic safety warnings. The brilliant blue LED alpha-numeric display is easily read in direct sunlight, and features five selectable levels of brightness for optimum night or evening use.
Ford And Toyota Getting Partnership To Invent And Share New Hybrid System
Ford partners with Toyota to share technology, for developing new hybrid system for trucks and SUVs. So the journey begains towards a new way of Automobile technology. Ford And Toyota signed a memorandum of understanding today that shows equal partners to create a new rear-wheel drive hybrid platform intended for light trucks and SUVs. The product development collaboration, with the formal agreement expected by next year. By this collaboration they expected to offer even better telematics services in the future. Checkout more details bellow in the press release.
Audi Preparing For A4 Plug-In Hybrid Car In 2014
Now Audi also become a member for hybrid technology, and they do not wasting time playing catch-up. The automaker is rumored to be producing a plug-in hybrid Audi A4 for the 2014 model year. How it will be if you are going to office during rush hour, and then realize that your vehicle’s all out of power! At least with a hybrid, it can still get you to the office on time, and delivers the best of both worlds between electric and gas vehicles.
Cadillac Converj Concept
Cadillac Converj hits production as ELR, comes tomlife as Cadillac ELR, which gets luxury touring coupe gets extended-range electric vehicle technology.The Cadillac ELR will have a T-shaped lithium ion battery inside, electric motors and a four-cylinder engine-generator and the 2012 Volt is priced at an eyebrow-raising $39,995, including shipping……………….
Goodyear Developing Self-Inflating Tyre Technology
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said it is experimenting with what it calls Air Maintenance Technology, which will enable tires to remain inflated at the optimum pressure without the need for any external pumps or electronics and Goodyear’s self-inflating tires could improve gas mileage, leave Schrader valves unsatisfied. Goodyear’s so-called Air Maintenance Technology (AMT) is completely self-contained, without any need for external pumps or electronics and Goodyear has not provided any costs or an estimate when the technology will become available to the public………….
Pioneer AVIC-X930BT 6.1″ In-Dash Navigation AV Receiver
Pioneer’s double-DIN AVIC-X930BT features built-in navigation with maps of the US, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Get there fast with spoken street names, lane guidance, and a wealth of GPS features, and stay in touch on the way with built-in Bluetooth for hands-free calling. A 6.1-inch WVGA touch screen display is great for GPS and for navigating your entertainment, whether it’s DVDs or CDs, your digital media from USB drives or microSD cards, or content from your iPhone. Speaking of iPhones, the AVIC-X930BT features enhanced integration with Pandora and Aha Radio apps, along with GPS features through the free AVIC FEEDS app.
Audi Urban Concept Heads To IAA Frankfurt
Audi concept car doing some photography work in the heart of Berlin, Germany, and now the automaker with the four rings has revealed some preview sketches of the concept ahead of its debut next month at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show. The new concept will be called the Audi Urban Concept and it’s just the latest in a long line of e-tron electric car concepts. This latest e-tron is made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic and wields a door contraption that’ll put Lambos to shame, assuming it ever makes it to market and the udi Urban Concept’s development focused on the strict principles of lightweight construction, efficiency and reduction………….
Ford And SunPower, Offers A high-Efficiency Rooftop Charging System
Ford and SunPower team up to provide a high-efficiency rooftop solar system, put a hefty $10,000 price tag on one of its accessories. This system provide Focus Electric owners enough renewable energy production to offset the energy used for charging. The system was sized to accommodate a customer who drives about 1,000 miles per month. The complete SunPower solar system is offered at a base price of less than $10,000, after federal tax credits. Checkout more details bellow in the press release.
Viatag RFID Transponders Developing For Cashless Parking System
Parking technology has finally caught up to our on-the-go culture: pay without paying attention and now researchers have built a device that does for parking lots what radio transponders do for highway tolls. This new parking system is based on NFC system that allows you shell out your hard earned cash without even reaching for your wallet and the setup is relatively simple, consisting of a small RFID tag, compatible transceivers and a centralized database. Once attached to your car’s windshield, the tag communicates with the transceivers installed within a given parking lot and alert the system whenever your vehicle enters or leaves. Researchers have already installed Viatag at car parks in Essen, Duisburg and Munich and parking pace on hope…………
Ford SYNC Systems Become More Affordable By Drops Price Of $100
Ford reduce SYNC systems to base trim levels, right now it’s drops from $395 to $295. By this $100 Drops Price of SYNC become more affordable and available to all. SYNC will now be available as optional equipment on base trim levels, marking broader availability and more choice for customers starting with its 2012 Edge and Explorer models. SYNC has been installed already on more than 3 million vehicles since its debut in 2007. Ford plans to roll out the system across its entire lineup in three years time, bringing the 2013 Ford Taurus, Focus, Escape and Flex into the fold. Checkout more details in the press release bellow.
BMW i3 Concept And BMW i8 Concept
BMW recently unveiled the first two models in its new ‘i’ series, the i3 and the i8 concepts and the futuristically styled cars are based on BMW’s new LifeDrive architecture. BMW i3 is an electric vehicle designed for urban environments and formerly called the MegaCity Vehicle, the EV is powered by a 125 kW electric motor that offers drivers an 80-mile electric driving range. The BMW i3 has a 0-60 mph time of less than eight seconds and its high-speed charger achieves an 80-percent battery charge in just one hour. We’ll have to wait until 2014 to see if München can make good on those promises………………..
SolarCity Working On Solar-Powered Electric Vehicle Charging
SolarCity gets in the EV charging game and to offer solar-powered EV chargers. SolarCity is partnering with EV charger manufacturer ClipperCreek, which will supply chargers that use the standard SAE-J1772 charge cable and homeowners and businesses can install electric vehicle charging for as little as $1,500 with solar. The SAE-J1772 compatible juicers will work with almost any plug-in vehicle, including the Volt, Leaf, Prius plug-in, Focus BEV, iMiev and aforementioned Roadster and being of the Level II ilk, top-up your automobile 5x faster than a 120V plug…………..
Major Breakthrough In EV Technology To Recharge Batteries Conitually With Infinite Range
Potential Difference Inc. invented a new EV technology called Regenerative Acceleration Generator Technology. This new innovation introduces major breakthrough in EV and HEV design. The technology will help all electric vehicles to recharge their batteries continuously and provide infinite range. Major automobile industries like GENERAL MOTORS, MERCEDES-BENZ, NISSAN and other institutions like NASA, US AIR [...]
OnStar FMV Mirrors Becoming Available At Best Buy From 24th July
OnStar, the company manufactue some different all-in-one car accessory, is now working with General Motors. During the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show as “OnStar Anywhere” will officially launched. The OnStar FMV Mirrors provides the company’s popular blue button technology for about 90 million automobiles. That’s means alot of users for those cars are taking the benefits of features like automatic crash response, turn-by-turn navigation and hands-free calling.
Suzuki’s Every Electric Van Coming To The Streets Of Japan
Following in the wake of Mitsubishi came out of nowhere with their i-MiEV, and here comes Suzuki with an electric version of their kei (mini) van, the Every. Suzuki has reportedly manufactured 13 of the electrified vans, which will be handed out to its dealerships in Japan on a trial basis. This, according to Integrity Exports, will allow Suzuki to test out its electrified people-moving machine ahead of the automaker’s launch of a mass-produced battery-powered vehicle.
