Mechanical Aptitude Test

For those of you who think you know a lot about cars, you should take this test!
For me, well, I failed unintentionally but it's good to know what I had forgotten and what I had not.

Great! Row up your sleeves and click START.
By the way, my poor score was 68%. Failed! :-)

Honda Home Energy Station

Honda has operated an experimental Home Energy Station in Torrance, California, since 2003. The Home Energy Station, which generates hydrogen from natural gas, is designed to provide heat and electricity for the home through fuel cell cogeneration and to supply fuel for a hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle.

Honda has worked in cooperation with technology partner Plug Power, Inc., to reduce size and increase convenience in each subsequent generation of the Home Energy Station. In 2007 Honda developed Home Energy Station IV—which is even less expensive and better suited for home use than previous versions. CO₂ emissions for a household using the Home Energy Station are 30% lower than those for an average household using a gasoline-engine car and commercial electricity.

Honda believes in a future society powered by hydrogen, and we are serious about our commitment to contribute to the development of refueling solutions we can all live with.
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Uhm...Apart from Jet planes, Honda is going to create a Hydrogen powered home system as well... Interesting. But this system is generated to initially solve Fueling station for Hydrogen-powered vehicles. I think they still have a long way to go, but it's so Honda.

Stubborn and passionate (in that they believe)!

Solar-powered LED road markers could light future roadways

The British have shed some light on night driving with the invention of the Astucia SolarLite flush road stud. The stud emits LED light, which is powered by small solar panels. The new stud tech is present on 120 British roads, and night-time accidents are down a dramatic 70% since the devices were installed. Amazingly, the SolarLite road stud gives drivers 900 meters of visibility, which increases reaction times to over 30 seconds. Reaction time with standard reflector studs is just 3.2 seconds.
[Source: Astucia]
Posted Nov 21st 2007 8:28AM by Chris Shunk

Cool!

62nd Frankfurt Motor Show

I love this picture. It can cleverly depict the future trend of car tech! Look and you will find.

SHIFT_Tiida

From those who don't really appreciate Tiida...

Google and Hybrid car?

Google.org is now developing plug-in hybrid vehicles. In the RechargeIT initiative, a 11 million USD programme, Google is retrofitting Toyota Priuses and Ford Escape Hybrids into plug-in hybrids whose batteries can be charged through a regular socket. They announced the initiative on June 18 and unveiled the first of their plug-in fleet at the parking lot of the Silicon Valley HQ. They have a plan to build 100 of these plug-ins to be rented to their employees! The reason car manufacturers think that hybrid technology has a brighter future than the plug-in is that you will still have to burn coal or polute the environment one way or another in order to get the electricity to charge those vehicles. You polute the environment either directly or indirectly. For Google, however, they try to avoid this by charging the plug-ins with solar energy. On June 18 event, they also turned on their 1.6-megawatt solar-system, the biggest in the US providing about third of the power used at the HQ.

According to their website, the immediate goals of this initiative are:
1. Recharge a Car
2. Recharge the Grid
3. Recharge the Planet


About Google.org:

We hope that someday this institution will eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems.

Sergey Brin & Larry Page

Honda Accord 2008 : Concept and Spy shot

"Honda's new Accord has been spotted, completely undisguised, on a brochure shoot in Canada.

The new Accords will reach the production line this coming September or October, with the first shipments to dealers shortly afterwards.

The sedans and coupe spotted by TCC's spies are likely all V-6 cars, but Honda has publicly talked about more horsepower, better fuel economy, cylinder deactivation, and lower emissions for the V-6-powered Accord. And although there's no word from Honda, we're anticipating a 3.5-liter V-6 with about 270 horsepower, and a 180-horsepower, 2.4-liter four-cylinder."

TheCarConnection.com 07-6-26

Thailand's Eco car privilege

The Cabinet has made a decision yesterday on eco car project.

Excise Tax : 17%
Specification:
1. Engine size of no more than 1,300 CC for petrol engines.
2. Engine size of no more than 1,400 CC for diesel engines.
3. Fuel economy must be at least 5 liters per 100 km.
4. EURO 4 standard, emitting no more than 120 grams of CO2/km.

Source: Fincance Minister

What kind of cars are going to fill the streets of BKK...or...would there be more cars than what BKK roads can accommodate for? Would our air be cleaner or less dirty..?

28th Bangkok International Motor Show 2007

4 April 2007

Long live the king

You will be welcomed by a Disco Tuk-Tuk

Typical sight at a Motor show

..Classic..

but..would you buy a car that looks old when it's brand new?

Altis' life-saver

(launched in the Motor show)

Vios TRD

Dream car... The Audi TT

New A3 (3,100,000 Bt)

Launched in the Motor show,

but you need to wait 6 months to get only a glass roof model, not even displayed here.

The new Q7 quattro!!

The quattro

Urr....C4 Diamon...Urrhhh

Urrh..What are they thinking??

Have you seen Li-Kae (ลิเก) lately?

Power of the rock!

It can ruin your interior..

Chevrolet CNG

Mercedes E200 NGT

neat...for a price of 3,700,000 Bt

The new E200 NGT

(Launched at the Motor show)

Don't be mistaken. I didn't mean to take a photo of his upper-body part..

Saturday Test drive @ Park Nai Lert Hotel

Last Sat, we had a test drive for customers again at Park Nai Lert Hotel.
The hotel was a boutique style hotel. Nice... The food was fabulous too.
Here are some photos of the hotel.

Welcome to our test drive


Foyer


Lotus@the Lobby


Buffet


Event area


Fresh flowers in front of a Japanese restaurant

PS: All photos were taken from my mobile phone

Tiring Monday (again~)

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