New Toyota Prius will use Solar Energy

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While Ford and Chrysler are trying to outdo each other to provide car-buying tech junkies added value for their money, with the SYNC and the UConnect Web respectively, Toyota looks the other way and thinks outside the buyer.
According to a Japanese daily called Nikkei, Toyota will be including solar panels on some of its future [...]

While Ford and Chrysler are trying to outdo each other to provide car-buying tech junkies added value for their money, with the SYNC and the UConnect Web respectively, Toyota looks the other way and thinks outside the buyer. According to a Japanese daily called Nikkei, Toyota will be including solar panels on some of its future models – the very first of which will be the 2009 Prius hybrid. The solar panels will be powering some of the car’s electronics - especially the ... Read More

Chrysler WOW (Wi-Fi on Wheels)

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What is a COW?
Aside from being our planet’s main source of best tasting milk and tender juicy meat, COW is also an acronym for Cell site On Wheels. These are vehicles that mobile networks dispatch to open fields or some other secluded place to increase network coverage (like during concerts and outdoor games). Cell sites [...]

What is a COW? Aside from being our planet’s main source of best tasting milk and tender juicy meat, COW is also an acronym for Cell site On Wheels. These are vehicles that mobile networks dispatch to open fields or some other secluded place to increase network coverage (like during concerts and outdoor games). Cell sites are usually put in towers and other high rise structures to cover a wide area. COWs are placed in areas that are simply out of coverage. So what ... Read More

Top 10 Hybrid Cars of 2008

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Hybrid cars had always been in the shadows of the not so known names in vehicle manufacturing companies. Now more and more awareness had been synching in the known Car Companies in making these Hybrid Babies. The difference between known manufacturers and un known manufacturers is the Hybrid essence coinciding good vehicle designs that top [...]

Hybrid cars had always been in the shadows of the not so known names in vehicle manufacturing companies. Now more and more awareness had been synching in the known Car Companies in making these Hybrid Babies. The difference between known manufacturers and un known manufacturers is the Hybrid essence coinciding good vehicle designs that top names in the industry had most often than not mastered already making the Hybrid nature of these cars all the more enjoyable. Another advantage would be that ... Read More