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• Electric vehicle conversion
  ...arge their batteries via solar panels, fuel cells, gas generators or other alternative energy sources. Some experimenters have even used super capacitors to store ...is as important as performance this company offers DIY options and turnkey cars. Very aerodynamic and space for battery options. Retro European styling fr
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• Car safety
  ...ing to human life and health. Special safety features have been built into cars for years, some for the safety of [[car]]'s occupants only, some for the sa ...n official crash test results and road deaths in vehicles is not exact. An alternative method of assessing vehicle safety is to study the [[road accident statisti
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• Passive safety
  ...ing to human life and health. Special safety features have been built into cars for years, some for the safety of [[car]]'s occupants only, some for the sa ...n official crash test results and road deaths in vehicles is not exact. An alternative method of assessing vehicle safety is to study the [[road accident statisti
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• Hybrid vehicle drivetrain
  ...in an idling manner or be connected by a one-way clutch or freewheel. With cars it is more usual to join the two sources through a differential gear. Thus ...nation of both. The Prius and Escape Hybrids are examples of this, as both cars can be moved forward on battery power alone. A large, high-capacity battery
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• Lancia
  ...ong rally heritage. Modern Lancias are seen as presenting a more luxurious alternative to the models in the Fiat range upon which they are based. One of the firm' ...Also, Lancia pioneered the use of [[independent suspension]] in production cars, in an era where [[live axle]]s were common practice for both the front and
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• Internal combustion engine
  ...ned space called a combustion chamber. This [[exothermic]] reaction of a [[fuel]] with an [[oxidizer]] creates gases of high [[temperature]] and [[pressure ...internal combustion engines did not have compression, but ran on what air/fuel mixture could be sucked or blown in during the first part of the intake str
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...er systems may have common subsystems or components. The HV provide better fuel economy than a conventional vehicle because the engine is smaller and may b ...e also seen occasional use. A number of other hybrid vehicles use hydrogen fuel.
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• Nuerburgring
  The '''Nürburgring''' (alternative spelling without [[Umlaut (diacritic)|umlaut]]: '''Nuerburgring''', but [[U ...Sharknose" Formula 1 car. Even 40 years later, the highest performing road cars have difficulty breaking 8 minutes without a professional racing driver or
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• Indy Racing League
  ...es Auto Club|USAC]]. George blueprinted the IRL as a lower-cost open-wheel alternative to CART, which had come to be technology-driven and dominated by a few weal == The Cars ==
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• Bizzarrini
  ...for [[Alfa Romeo]], [[Ferrari]], [[Lamborghini]], [[ISO]] and later built cars under his name. He also developed advanced designs for [[General Motors|GM] ...ing advanced projects and designing, building and developing his own sport cars. He often said: "I'm not a car designer, I am a worker".
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• Alfa Romeo 6C
  | Fuel Capacity || ...5–1954 by Alfa Romeo. 6C refers to to a straight 6 engine. Bodies to these cars were made by coachbuilders like: James Young, [[Zagato]] ,[[Carrozzeria Tou
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• Formula One
  ...ne for drivers and one for [[#Drivers and constructors|constructors]]. The cars race at speeds often in excess of 300 km/h (185 mph). ...scope is continually expanding. Formula 1 cars are the most expensive race cars currently in production and the [[sport]] is among the most expensive in th
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• 2006 Formula One season
  ...y involved the [[Grand Prix Manufacturers’ Association]]'s proposal for an alternative World Championship. On [[March 27]], the five car manufacturers involved lo ...his brakes at the corner, a stewards' inquiry stated, "We are left with no alternative but to conclude that the driver deliberately stopped his car on the circuit
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• Scuderia Ferrari
  ...its peak included over forty drivers, most of whom raced in [[Alfa Romeo]] cars; Enzo himself continued racing, with moderate success, until the birth of h ...815s, designed by [[Alberto Massimino]], were thus the first true Ferrari cars, but after [[Alberto Ascari]] and the [[Marchese Lotario Rangoni Machiavell
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• Max Mosley
  ...career as a barrister was bringing in sufficient money, he started racing cars himself. The sport's indifference to his background appealed to Mosley: ...uropean [[Formula Two]], the level of racing just below Formula One. Their cars were prepared by [[Frank Williams]], later a Formula One team owner. It was
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• Aluminium
  ...dride (Al(BH₄)₃) is used as an additive to [[jet]] [[fuel]]s. ...trolysis]] with the [[Hall-Héroult]] process consumes a lot of energy, but alternative processes were always found to be less viable economically and/or ecologica
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• Motorcycle speedway
  ...opped by removing the plug lead from the sparking plug or shutting off the fuel supply. ..., which can be roughly estimated to be the equivalent of [[List of fastest cars by acceleration|2.5 to 3 seconds]] to reach 100 km/h (or "nought to si
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• Moto Guzzi
  ...(D.T.I. Group or DTI), manufacturer of the [[De Tomaso]] sports and luxury cars, owned by Argentinian industrialist [[Alejandro de Tomaso]], purchased SEIM ...s limited by the lack of an effective rear suspension design. Until then, alternative designs sacrificed torsional rigidity -- gaining comfort but severely compr
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