Sunday, 9 March 2014

Venom GT beats Bugatti Veyron as the Worlds Fastest-Car with top speed of 435 km/hr.


“Venom GT” an American sports car manufactured by Hennessey Performance Engineering (Texas) with a top speed of 435 km/hr(270mph). It set a new record for the fastest car in the world during a test run at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida By beating the previous best record of 431km/hr set by Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.


The Venom GT is powered by twin turbocharged 7.0L [427ci] Ford V8 aluminum engine featuring Ball Bearing Turbocharging system.

The Venom GT Spyder is an open top version of the Venom GT as on February 28, 2014. 11 Venom GTs have been manufactured.[7] Hennessey have announced that they only intend to build a total of 29 of these cars.

Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Zero-emission Electric Bus launched in Banglore


Zero-emission Electric Bus launched in Banglore

By-Ramalinga Reddy (Transport Minister Karnataka)


Features 


           Capacity of around 41 passengers. 
            
          Takes 5 hours to be charged normally and half that time for a ‘fast’ charge. 

      The zero-emission Chinese-made BYD bus (K9D) is powered by four ferrous batteries, each producing 540 volts of electricity.

            Runs at a speed of  96 km/hr costing rs. 2.7 crore

The duration for trial of the bus has been kept as three months during which the bus will run at different routes.