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From the monthly archives:
September 2005
For the second time in two weeks, Loris Capirossi has won the pole with his Bridgestone shod Ducati. Bridgestone tires are on five of the top seven qualifiers for this week’s Malaysian MotoGP. Capirossi seems to have both the better tire brand along with an excellent setup on the bike. Rossi is on the [...]
Toyota is about to launch a marketing campaign to promote its Hybrid Synergy Drive technology. Toyota’s thinking seems to be that they have a lead in the public’s mind when it comes to hybrids so market like crazy before the competition catches up. When you think hybrid, they want the name Toyota to pop up [...]
This is interesting. It’s an alternator driven by exhaust gas instead of a mechanical drive system. The TIGERS Turbo generator Integrated Gas Energy Recovery System alternator can be spun up to 80,000rpm and generate as much as 6kW. By eliminating the mechanical drive and parasitic losses, they immediately gain efficiency. In cars and especially trucks, [...]
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, politicians are talking about raising the CAFE standards and now since Katrina, people are telling their political representatives to DO SOMETHING! May I say, please don’t?
Toyota’s Prius has had a sales increase of 132% this year over last year. Does anyone really think the car companies aren’t acutely [...]
Biodiesel is still surprising a lot of people. You can tell they’re surprised because they use exclamation marks. “Diesel runs on vegetable oil!” or “Man drives truck powered by cooking oil!” Yesterday I saw another article, “You can run biodiesel engines on filtered coconut oil!” over on BoingBoing and it struck me that a lot [...]
Yamaha has a fuel cell motorcycle, the Yamaha FC-me, and is now leasing it to the Shizuoka prefectural government in Japan. They’ve been testing on public roads since September of last year. Cost is reported to be $942 per month, which is probably about as realistic as what the family in California is paying to [...]
Olivier Jacque will replace the injured Alex Hofmann on the Kawasaki for this weekend’s MotoGP in Malaysia and also next week in Qatar. Jacque placed second in China on a very wet track and was closing on Rossi continuously. He has raced 3 times so far this year. Hofmann broke his ankle in the Japanese [...]
