Posted: October 22nd, 2011 | Author: Marcus fangerfield | Filed under: mcsixtyfive | Tags: auto industry, Auto Market, Auto News, Blip, Concept Car, Concept Vehicle, DeLorean Motor Company, DMC, DMC EV, eco driver, ecodriver, electric, Electric Car, Epic EV, Flux Power, Green Motoring, Grilled, J.Z. Delorean, Jalopnic, James Espey, Marcus Dangerfield, Stephen Wynne | Comments Off
Goes around, comes around, what’s old is new again and LiLo! 3 common epigrams that seem to dictate the future, as the television man says “but wait there’s more” “The car of the future has really become the car of the future,” joked James Espey, a vice president at DeLorean Motor Company of Humble, Texas. In 1975 GM auto Exec J.Z. Delorean – most noted for the Pontiac GTO – started a small auto company with a huge name, DeLorean, and though his ill fated venture would last only 7 years, thanks to some spectacular publicity – Back to the Future – the thought has stuck. J.Z.DeLorean died in 2005, his legacy lives on. DMC – DeLorean Motor Company reinvented itself via Texas entrepreneur Stephen Wynne acquired the remaining parts inventory and the uberstylized DMC logo trademark. We’ve been speculating on a reinvention of the DeLorean since October 2010, well it’s closer now than it ever has been. Fast Forward, October 2011: DMC has partnered with electric-car start-up Epic EV to develop the Electric DeLorean. The original DeLorean was slow, unreliable and production ceased after just one year, when the company filed for bankruptcy in 1982. Just 9,200 DMC-12′s left the factory. Wynnes DMC EV will use 80 per cent of the DeLorean’s original parts and will be unleashed on the world in late 2013 M★D READ MORE
Posted: October 3rd, 2011 | Author: M.Aaron Silverman | Filed under: mcsixtyfive | Tags: 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Auto News, Blip, Citreon, City Light Electric Vehicle, Concept, Concept Car, Concept Vehicle, design, ecodriver, electric, Electric Car, Electric Vehicle, Green Motoring, Grilled, Grilled, Grilled Auto News, M.Aaron Silverman, M.Aaron Silverman, Peugeot, PSA, VeLV | Comments Off
Peugeot, hmmm, they’ve always made a decent enough Looking automobile, a little lacking perhaps on the reliability front – Peugoet Drivers Be Quiet, servicing your car EVERY month isn’t normal – aside from that little nugget, if don’t fit into a slimline blue pencil skirt or loafers and cardigans, they’ve never really been inspiring. Adding to that image, Peugeot has released pix of it’s latest concept, the VeLV. In fairness to Peugeot, it looks like their partners, Citreon may have had a heavy hand in designing this commuter. VeLV is a French acronym that translates to City Light Electric Vehicle – the PSA concept debuted at a Paris innovation forum where the company said its baby would be aimed at corporate fleets, rental companies, car-sharing schemes and private buyers who fancy a second car or just a round-town runabout. M★S READ MORE
Posted: June 25th, 2011 | Author: Buster Cookson | Filed under: mcsixtyfive | Tags: Buster Cookson, dicycle, diwheel, EDWARD, electric, Grilled, Grilled, Honor Students, University of Adelaide | Comments Off
Meet Edward, with a top speed of 40kmh / 25 mph, EDWARD is a futuristic, purely electric dicycle. Designed by Honor students
at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Edward is an advanced program in good looking mechanical design. Although it looks like some dystopian vehicle ridden by Gaff in Bladerunner, Edward is a fully operational electric, human operated dicyclele. EDWARD, an acronym –
Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping - is purely electric. It has additional functionality lacking in other designs, including inbuilt dynamic lateral stability and slosh control to prevent “gerbiling” or tumbling in aggressive braking or acceleration maneuvers. The diwheel also incorporates a unique feature that allows the rider to drive the vehicle when “upside down” – keeping the vehicle in its unstable state is achieved using a combined swingup and inversion controller. The mechanical design and some of the electronics was completed in 2009, with the majority of the electronics and control systems developed in 2010.
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