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British Motor Show: The Aspid. Ultra sports meets efficient.

Click for high-resolution gallery Spanish company IFR Automotive has unveiled the Aspid at the British Motor Show. The Aspid is a new ultra-lightweight sports car. The Aspid (Spanish for viper, ahem) features a 2-liter I4 engine in two versions able to produce 270 and 400hp, the latter thanks to supercharging. This powerful engine, mated to a 700 kg (1,543 pounds) weight provides spectacular performance. The 270hp version runs from 0 to 100 km/h (62mph) in 3.7 seconds, and 2.8 for the most powerful version. IFR also announced the estimated ... Read more →

Audi wins European Inventor of the Year 2008 for lightweight ASF Xavier Navarro

The European Patent Office has named Audi the European Inventor of the Year. The reason? Audi's Space Frame technology (ASF). First introduced in the A8 in 1993, ASF is a high-strength aluminum frame ...

Geneva Motor Show: Lotus Engineering showcase efficient component designs Dane Muldoon

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res images of the EVE Hybrid technology demonstrator. Lotus Engineering have launched a production-ready, highly advanced cylinder head with integrated ...

Hydrogen storage breakthrough? Dane Muldoon

Researchers have published their discovery of a new class of aluminum-hydrogen complexes in the journal Science and are excited by the unique chemistry the molecules exhibit. Amongst the most ...

British Motor Show: The Aspid. Ultra sports meets efficient. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click for high-resolution gallery Spanish company IFR Automotive has unveiled the Aspid at the British Motor Show. The Aspid is a new ultra-lightweight sports car. The Aspid (Spanish for viper, ahem) features a 2-liter I4 engine in two versions able to produce 270 and 400hp, the latter thanks to ...

Audi wins European Inventor of the Year 2008 for lightweight ASF 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The European Patent Office has named Audi the European Inventor of the Year. The reason? Audi's Space Frame technology (ASF). First introduced in the A8 in 1993, ASF is a high-strength aluminum frame structure into which the panels are integrated so that they also perform a load-bearing function. ...

Geneva Motor Show: Lotus Engineering showcase efficient component designs 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for a gallery of high-res images of the EVE Hybrid technology demonstrator. Lotus Engineering have launched a production-ready, highly advanced cylinder head with integrated exhaust manifold (IEM) which is designed to reduce manufacturing costs, emissions and weight on most ...

Hydrogen storage breakthrough? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Researchers have published their discovery of a new class of aluminum-hydrogen complexes in the journal Science and are excited by the unique chemistry the molecules exhibit. Amongst the most important aspects of the discovery are that the new class of aluminum and hydrogen molecules (Al-H) are ...


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