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Finesse player
They're not saying much about it, but the latest expression of Toyota global design chief Simon Humphries' "L-finesse'' look for Lexus, the LF-C, will be on display at the upcoming New York Auto Show. Lexus promises a "high-output V8'' powering its concept luxury sports coupe concept.
A-Class revealed
Mercedes-Benz, not to be outdone by German rival BMW's recent release of photos of its 1 Series hatch (AW, March 29), released this shot of its second-generation A-Class due in Europe in July. While BMW is still plotting its strategy for marketing the 1 Series in the United States, most likely as a 2 Series coupe beginning in 2006, a four-door version of the Mercedes A-Class named B-Class or CST is set to arrive on these shores by 2005 (AW, March 22).
Even more significant
Sources tell AutoWeek that Italdesign-Giugiaro's Toyota Alessandro Volta hybrid gas-electric sports car, named our Most ...
- Bicentennial of Alessandro Volta's Invention of the "Electric Pile": Discovery...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Chemical News Conway, B.E. January 1, 2000 700+ words
...Electrochemistry (ISE) has recently celebrated the 200th anniversary of the invention of the so-called electric "pile" by Alessandro Volta, at a major conference held in the historic university town of Pavia, Italy, where most of Volta's research and many...
- Hybrid highlight: Geneva Motor Show sees compact supercar which points to...
- Magazine article from: The Engineer Fowler, David March 5, 2004 700+ words
...Geneva Motor Show. The Toyota Alessandro Volta, a collaboration between...said Guigiaro. 'With the Alessandro Volta, we have achieved the same...electric motors give the Alessandro Volta a 0-100Kph acceleration...
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- Magazine article from: AutoWeek March 15, 2004 700+ words
...Most Significant Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota Alessandro Volta Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery and Toyota...experiment pod. The Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota Alessandro Volta generates a calculated 402 hp from the Hybrid...
- TOYOTA ATTACKS URBAN JUNGLE.(News)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek March 6, 2006 700+ words
...usually make a big splash at Geneva, its most significant show car to date being the 2004 Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota Alessandro Volta. Toyota holds true to this under-the-radar pattern with the tiny Urban Cruiser concept. Based on the same...
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- Magazine article from: AutoWeek June 23, 2008 700+ words
...derivation of the Ferrari Enzo) as Best in Show, the BMW M5 concept as Most Fun, the Italdesign-Giugiaro Toyota Alessandro Volta as Most Signifi-cant and the Rolls-Royce 100EX as Best Concept. Also appearing: Lamborghini Murcielago...
- Get charged up by creating a battery and testing for conductivity.(Grades...
- Newspaper article from: Curriculum Review October 1, 2003 700+ words
Count Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist and pioneer in electricity, is credited...cell This battery is an example of the very first one created by Alessandro Volta in 1800. Materials: Lemons, coins (such as copper pennies...
- MEN DON'T SHOP, THEY RETURN
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) December 27, 1988 700+ words
...process refined by a Chinese scientist, Shing Cheong, on technology developed about 200 years ago by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. He made electricity from the reaction of two dissimilar metals to waters and applied it to chronology. Don't get it...
- volt
- Reference information from: World Encyclopedia January 1, 2005 700+ words
volt (symbol V ) SI unit of electric potential and electromotive force (emf) . It is the potential difference between two points on a conducting wire carrying a current of one ampere when the power dissipated is one watt. It is named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.
