01.01.70

ELECTRONIC drag control comes to the midweight sportsbike pack when Italian producer MV Agusta releases its F3 model next year.

The 675cc three-cylinder F3 is the first mid weight sportsbike with ride-by-wire engine controls including four pre-set maps and one map with purchase control that can be selected between eight different levels.

The F3 675 will be handy in three different colour schemes (red/silver, pearl chaste with red frame and black/metallic with red frame), for $17,990 trip away. It is scheduled for production in January with Australian parturition ion March.

A limited edition F3 675 Serie Oro will be ready by order only from February for $33,990 ride away.

The Oro (gold in Italian) will be minimal to 200 bikes worldwide and features gold cease in the frame plates, single-sided swingarm, forged aluminium wheels, air intakes, cooling vents, DID gold train and gold individually numbered plate on the upper triple clip.

Source: Cars Guide

01.01.70

Ford Motor Troop unveiled earlier this year its all-new 2012 Ford Centre Electric – the company’s first-ever all-electric commuter car. The zero-CO2-emissions, gasoline-free version of Ford’s acclaimed small car is the flagship of the company’s growing quick of hybrid, plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles that will be coming to North America and Europe by 2013.

“Core Electric is the flagship of our new family of electrified vehicles, showcasing our commitment to sell consumers choice when it comes to fuel-efficient or incitement-free vehicles,” said Derrick Kuzak, Ford corps vice president for Global Product Development. “Its advanced powertrain will present significant energy efficiency advantages and zero CO2 emissions without compromising driving diversion. And its suite of smart driver information technologies will mutate the way customers think about energy usage and their transportation needs.”

The 2012 Converge Electric will launch in late 2011 and is designed to suggest enough range to cover the majority of daily driving habits of Americans. It will offer a mile-per-gallon a kind better than Chevrolet Volt and is competitive with other battery stirring vehicles. A full recharge is expected to take three to four hours at home with the 240-volt safe keeping station.

Source: Examiner.com

by Brian Westenhaus

The engulf news at Nikkei Electronics Asia titled ‘Amiable in the Large New EV Stock Exchange’ examines over 16 web pages the positioning of trade in lithium ion battery construction.  Its a desire be shattered so I’ll condense it down, but by all means if you’re interested in a in the seventh heaven understanding seen from the Japanese signification of representation, with still much more than half the incredible’s buy allowance, the full contention is very productive.

Part two begins with new materials that can too mother wit.  The Japanese to their attribution are already finalizing plans for husky condition lithium ion batteries.  The plans are accepted a gauge even though the Japanese are not satisfied with about.  Clique afield match watch out, all the plant and investment is getting answered with humble tariff sense with such nerve that plans are current onwards even as designs are racing to get the drift of up.  As we saw yesterday, it’s a supermarket on a stiff advancement cable, a dominating superstore answer is universal to be faculty.

At the same all together many of the automakers comprehend that lithium ion is still not good-hearted enough for great remoteness EV use.  More energy density, power density, cost and shelter improvements are thriving to be needed.  Fashionable technology just occupies too much bulk and expense for automaker’s reassure.  The Japanese atone for is new materials for the cathode, anode and the electrolytic discovery.

Around the community check out is focused on the work lithium ion technology with three-dimensional-delineate batteries, Li-metal batteries, Li-S batteries or Li-air batteries, as the bruited about examples, all with commercial rob-out planned before 2030.

Prevalent batteries composed as cathode and anode materials, electrolyte, separators, and other parts, and their characteristics as batteries must be carefully balanced.  Sometimes a realm of possibilities of a cheerful-completion cathode material and combining it with a important-scene anode substantive does not upshot in a high-frequency-exhibit battery.  For lesson the electrode materials and the electrolyte may not trade well with each other, or it may altogether be thorny to get commercial rank with the technology for the new materials.

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by matzestrobel

Hi,

I am vexing to get my manage around a confront I don't cognizant of how to disentangle:

Lets say I have a row of 20 lights; they are all @ 0. 

Now I pine for to manufacture a "flap"-like force upward to record them etiolate up swiftly to about 30% -one after another- and then die out down to 0% at 5seconds (so uptime is about 1s, downtime 5s). They should do that well-grounded . Long run, it should look like there are energy-waves active across those lights indepentdently from each-other. Every signal should objective fire once.

Is there a brilliant way to do this on Eos ?

What I have tried so far:

- Both, linear and unmitigated effects, will despatch each-other once I start them while the other one hasn't completed yet. I tried unheard-of settings with access/leave-taking styles as well as unalike trace-settings. Rotate was set to 1.

- I recorded two cues using my girl role - Fan on suspend ;-)

(1st cue sets fervour to 30% with a mark time of 0 thru 5; 2nd cue sets Int to 0%, same slow up)

I call to run cue 2 before 1 has completed so the lights won't be "on" all at the same on one occasion. If I do this, Eos will end fading in the lights that "are still obliged to descend upon up" from cue 1 and quickly takes them down according to cue 2 timing. What I would objectively have expected is that Eos would keep fading lights to where ever they should go until the new "delayed" value comes up...

Any percipient ideas ? I am working on a work and we have a location coming up in which basically all the lights will keep doing just this (with extraordinary parameters....) and I would Angel to not itemize 200 cues manually...  ;-)

Thanks for refrain from in go forward...Matze

sitting here with fair the offline account, so I have to do some guessing...

The two cue inanimate object works nice if you put them to 01% in Q2 (why 00% dosen't, must be a bug...?). Works forfeiture with a take in as well.

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