This is ReCharge, a C30-based concept car by Volvo waiting to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Auto Show next week. This sleek thing will be able to take you about a 100 kilometers on electricity before it falls back on its 1.6-liter Flexifuel engine.
According to Volvo we can expect this baby to generate about 66% lower emissions of carbon dioxide compared with the best hybrid cars available on the market today.
Style and environmental friendliness in one package, how about that?
Watch a video of it here:
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(Via Jalopnik)
There’s plenty of car-related co-branding going on right now (Porsche cells and laptops, Hummer cellphones, Ferrari and Lamborghini laptops, you name it). Luckily SanDisk is considerate enough to mind the bikers as well and have launched a collection of Ducati branded products – here’s the Extreme USB Flash Drive Ducati Edition.
“The attractive industrial design echoes the performance, colors, and lines of a Ducati MotoGP motorcycle. And hidden beneath this unique exterior lies a fast, 20MB/second USB Flash Drive.”
Toyota just announced their official iPod integration kit, allowing all Toyota and Lexus models to control the iPod nicely through the car’s audio head unit (or steering wheel audio controls, if available) while safely docked and charged in the glove compartment.
The integration kit is compatible with most iPod models but the price tag stings a bit, they want about $300 for it.
Nokia Speakerphone HF-300 is a detachable, lightweight (80g) and battery-powered Bluetooth speakerphone designed for in-car usage. It features DSP audio enhancing to cancel out noises and echoes, auto power-off, 20 hours of talk time per charge, sunvisor clip and illuminated keys. It’s expected to hit the shelves world-wide during Q3 2007 to an estimated price of €90 / US $120.
I just stumbled across this new ad for Audi A5 called “Rhythm of Lines”, created by London-based The Mill. It’s quite refreshing to see a car commercial that doesn’t include the otherwise mandatory shots of cars going up/down steep mountain roads or swoosh by on the edge of a dam in desaturated colors.
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Last year Honda launched a limited edition of their 49cc Zoomer scooter (known as the ‘Ruckus’ in North America) designed together with Stussy, this year it’s Carhartt’s turn. Only 300 of these will be made and besides having a slightly different design on the bike you get a Carhartt kit containing a bandana, a pair of gloves, a helmet, a beanie and a bag.
The Carhartt / Honda Zoomer will be available from May 21st, no price announced yet.
Carhartt Streetwear
Honda.com: Ruckus 2007 ($2,049)
(Via Productdose)
The MatchBox Size R/C Racing Cars are a bunch of really tiny RC Racing Cars not bigger than a matchbox or iPod Shuffle.
They’re available for $14.00 each and the models available are Nissan Skyline GTR R34, Mazda RX8, Subaru Impreza WRX, Toyota Estima and Subaru 360.
(Via Red Ferret)
There’s shiftknobs and then there’s shiftknobs like the Indy-Cator. It’s available with LCD-displays in either red or blue and designed to fit all cars with manual transmissions up to 6 speed. To top it off a built-in light sensor adapts the brightness of the display depending on how dark it gets.
TmTuning.com: Indy-Cator Shiftknobs ($169.00)
HiPe PC just announced their new Driv-N in-dash PCs. While some similar devices lack the binary horsepowers to do anything more than plain movie watching and music listening the Driv-N is fast enough to run Windows Vista Home Premium (if that bold move resulted in the machine feeling slow again is yet to be seen).
Anyway, depending on the model you get a touchscreen display ranging from 6.5" to 15" in size, speech recognition software (which apparently doesn’t need the tedious voice training), Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, rear-view camera support, optional Wi-Fi transmitter, voice feedback, XM-radio and much more.
If you want one you’ll have to give up between $799 to $1,589 depending on the power you want packed into the box.
(Via Electronista)
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