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But Lovins earned ridicule for his still-unrealized vision of a "hypercar" made of composites and electric drive trains three-to-five times more efficient than existing models.
Fast Company Greg Lindsay 2010
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It is not the all-new hypercar or four-door saloon that many of us were expecting, however, it does represent the forward moving nature of the Koenigsegg brand and a steady evolution through 15 years of expertise.
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AFP/Getty Images The new Lamborghini Aventador is a 6.5-liter V12-powered, 691-horsepower, all-wheel-drive hypercar "that visually comes at you like a crazed monkey with a knife," says Mr. Neil.
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Consider the new Lamborghini Aventador, a 6.5-liter V12-powered, 691-horsepower, all-wheel-drive hypercar that visually comes at you like a crazed monkey with a knife.
In Geneva, Guessing at a Gas-Guzzling Future Dan Neil 2011
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While I am agnostic-leaning-atheist on the hydrogen economy part of the hypercar concept, still the super-lightweight 200 mpg diesel hybrid has its appeal!
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If this describes you, then consider this: if you had a green home, a hypercar and ate all organic produce, your net environmental impact could be 25% of what it is now.
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They will learn about sustainable transportation, transforming Amtrak into a new, shining, beacon for the world and dreaming up hypercar and maglev transportation systems as unimaginable today as the automobile was in the days of horses and canals.
Dan Worth: One Mile High and Rising: A Report From the Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit 2008
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While I am agnostic-leaning-atheist on the hydrogen economy part of the hypercar concept, still the super-lightweight 200 mpg diesel hybrid has its appeal!
Guest Post: Personal Factor Four: Organizing Real Environmental Action with the Internet 2006
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If this describes you, then consider this: if you had a green home, a hypercar and ate all organic produce, your net environmental impact could be 25% of what it is now.
Guest Post: Personal Factor Four: Organizing Real Environmental Action with the Internet 2006
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Pagani C9 hypercar ... and another revelation, this time from
Autoblog 2010
bilby commented on the word hypercar
"In 1991, the Rocky Mountain Institute in the United States published a design for a Hypercar which, it claimed, could save at least 70-80 per cent of the fuel other models used. The Institute's critical innovations involved massive reductions in the vehicle's weight and drag. It proposed that the steel body should be replaced with carbon fibre composites, Kevlar or fibreglass and that the underside of the car be made as smooth as its roof. Then, like the Toyota Prius, it would use a 'hybrid-electric drive' (powered by a combination of liquid fuel and an electric motor) which could turn the energy now lost when the car brakes into electricity.
Fifteen years later, though the Institute's design seems to be viable, safe and cheap, and some of its features have been incorporated into real models like the Prius, nothing resembling the whole package has been launched as a mass-market car on either side of the Atlantic. The manufacturers will produce the odd demonstration model - largely, it seems, to keep the regulators off their backs - but while they make most of their money on sports utility vehicles, they are simply not interested in serious fuel economies. It is beginning to look like the last days of the Roman empire."
- 'Heat', George Monbiot.
February 19, 2008