Category Archives: Automotive

Ferrari vs Truck . Brandon ,FL

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Brandon, FL – Snapped a quick shot with my camera phone before running back home to grab my camera.This is a brand new Ferrari 458 driven by CEO of I-Pathology with about 500 miles on it and a late model Ford pickup truck have collided, resulting in the destruction of the front end of a beautiful Italian exotic. The accident took place January 28, 2011 on South Parsons Ave in Brandon, Florida. I was going to the tattoo shop when this happened. The traffic was backed up on northbound Parsons . Video by James Worley,Photo’s by Michael springer. AKA Domesticfix.

Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline

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UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.

According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.

“We have developed new micro-beads that can be used in an existing gasoline or petrol vehicle to replace oil-based fuels,” said Voller. “Early indications are that the micro-beads can be used in existing vehicles without engine modification.”

“The materials are hydrogen-based, and so when used produce no carbon emissions at the point of use, in a similar way to electric vehicles”, said Voller.

The technology has been developed over a four-year top secret programme at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK.

The development team is led by Professor Stephen Bennington in collaboration with scientists from University College London and Oxford University.

Professor Bennington, Chief Scientific Officer at Cella Energy said, “our technology is based on materials called complex hydrides that contain hydrogen. When encapsulated using our unique patented process, they are safer to handle than regular gasoline.”

The Russian B2 supercar

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Marussia Motors, makers of the very first Russian sports car the ‘Marussia B1’, have now created a whole new supercar aptly named the B2.

With a more brutal design and more powerful engine the B2 also features 4 cameras, placed on each side of the car: front, back, left and right. The environment around the car can be easily observed on the various built-in LCD displays.

The Marussia B2 has a 6 speed transmission and can accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 3.8 seconds with a top speed of 260km/h.