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		<title>Toyota Personal Transport Assistance Robot &#8216;Winglet&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<title>Electric Car in-wheel motor Siemens eCorner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 10:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn more about EVshttp://electric-vehicles-ca&#8230;Ferdinand Porsche put wheel motors on a battery electric car in 1897. They built about 300 of them and there were 4WD &#38; FWD versions. He also ma&#8230; more about &#34;Electric Car in-wheel motor Siemens e&#8230;&#34;, posted with vodpod<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=147&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Car In Wheel Motor System</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 10:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>500%- 1000% increase of conventional EV range? yes please..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lithium Sulfur The main obstacle to the mass adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is often said to be the current range limitations of battery technology. What if the energy density of batteries, and therefore the range of EVs, could be increased by 500 percent? Although we&#8217;ve not heard much about it for some time, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=144&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People&#8217;s study &#8211; Priority</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 06:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People’s PRIORITIES I have done people study over three weeks period. The purpose of the study is to find out what people really want in the future. I have gone with the approach of trying to find what people’s priorities are when it comes to choosing a vehicle. I did this by requiring them to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=139&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Prediction-draft1</title>
		<link>http://charlesng.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/future-prediction-draft1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 19:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the near future, sustainability will even be a bigger trend that people actually want to contribute to it. The number of small cars will increase in comparison with the bigger cars.  This is not only due to the amount of energy large cars required to run, it is also because people want a cheaper, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=134&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better Place Battery Switch Technology Demonstration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just had this thought a few days ago about battery swapping facility and found this video. It already exists! The idea behind this kind of facility is that customers who need to travel longer would not have to worry about battery recharging time. This sounds great. But it has the same problem as hydrogen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=131&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle explained</title>
		<link>http://charlesng.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/toyota-fuel-cell-hydrogen-vehicle-new-york-auto-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 11:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These three videos show how a Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle operates, what the advantages and disadvantages are, and also what components are required for the vehicle to run. I think one of the main disadvantages of this type of vehicle is that it still has many different components which take up a lot of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=120&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aesthetic study &#8211; BMW Bangle Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 04:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many other, BMW is one of my favourite car manufacturers. It always attracts my eyes whenever one goes down the road. I have decided to do an analysis on BMW aesthetic and this aesthetic study intends to understand how BMW designed their cars in the past and what design language they use. The study [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=79&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BMW Design Talk: is Modesty the new Luxury?</title>
		<link>http://charlesng.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/bmw-design-talk-is-modesty-the-new-luxury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 00:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Ng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BMW Design Talk: is Modesty the new Luxury? A few artists and designers from different disciplines talk about how the present crisis will influence design. This is very relevant to the project we are doing since it talks about predicting the future. The ideas of customer&#8217;s priorities in terms of what kind of car they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charlesng.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6858874&amp;post=77&amp;subd=charlesng&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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