Thanks to “the overwhelming response from the public and customers to the Concept Study,” the Porsche 918 Spyder just might get the green light. What’s a Porsche 918 Spyder you ask? Well, according to Porsche, it’s an ultra-high-performance mid-engined sports car boasting plug-in hybrid technology.
The 918 hybrid promises to be the fastest, most supremely handling hybrid ever produced, but what about the expected $600K price tag? We're not so sure we ever wanna go that fast in a hybrid, besides, that kinda dough would buy a lot of trees, and maybe a couple of tree hugging cuties to go with ‘em.
No one knows if Nissan planned to start “dropping” Leafs as the Northern Hemisphere enters the fall months, but we hope they did—the irony works for us. Today, Nissan announced the National Market Roll-Out Plan for their brand-new zero-emission Nissan Leaf.
Customers in 5 states can place firm orders for their new EV starting in August, and take delivery in December 2010. After that, Nissan plans to roll market by market until the nation is covered in Leafs by the end of 2011.
By definition, the recently unveiled Bloodhound SSC land-speeder is a hybrid. Now, it’s not the kind of hybrid we normally discuss here at the DiscoverHybrids blog, but a hybrid none-the-less. Designed to smash the current record of 763 mph and hit 1050 mph, the Bloodhound SSC is powered by 3 very different motors—thus the “hybrid.
The first engine, a Eurojet EJ200 jet engine, starts the rolling. Then the second, a purpose-built rocket engine takes over and sends the car into the four-digit stratosphere. And the third, a V-12 800 hp gasoline-burning race engine supplies auxiliary power for the rocket’s oxidizer pump and hydraulics.
It’s a slow news week here at DiscoverHybrid’s, so what do we do when it’s a slow news week? We either A, wax nasty about whatever green celebrity gal has caught our fancy that week. B, forward your traffic to automotive retailers schlepping Toyota Prius Floor Mats & Liners. Or C, surf the net looking to gravy-train someone else’s journalistic efforts. This week, it’s C.
The green crew over at TechnoHugs.com has put together this pictorial of green cars, real green cars. In fact these cars are so green, they actually produce oxygen. Check out the green scene right here.
Employing a new kind a hybrid technology that mates an electromagnet with a permanent magnet, the Tokyo-based Axle Corporation says this futuristic motorbike of theirs can be charged right at home in 6 hours.
And that’s not all. If you can get over how horrifyingly dorky this thing looks, it can run noiselessly for over 110 miles and reach speeds of over 90 mph. Watch the video above, it does look rather exciting.
And when the video gets to the Japanese-speaking parts, just know that in translation they’re saying, “DiscoverHybrids blog is number one!”
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