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| Paris, the world capital of the motorcar |
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A hostess poses along with the Lexus IS convertible 250 in the Lounge of the Motorcar in Paris inaugurated on Saturday, the 4th and that presents the last innovations of the biggest manufacturers of the world.
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Emma Vandore
Paris, France / AP
With an overflowing of glamor that contrasted with the shaded economic panorama, it was inaugurated on Thursday, the 2nd in the International Lounge of the Motorcar of Paris.
The self-propelled companies did ambitious sales prognoses, but they presented smaller and efficient models to attract simultaneously the careful consumers with the money and to the respectful ones of the ecology.
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Sling presents his electrical model “Insight“, with which he hopes to compete with "Toyota Prius" in the segment of the ecological cars.
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Sling revealed a new one five doors to gasoline and electrically, like answer to the success that his rival Toyota Motor Corp had with his proper hybrid Prius. Sling made sure that his "Insight" will be cheaper "that any other hybrid motorcar on the market" to make the technology low in emission accessible to more consumers. The Japanese signature proposes to sell 200.000 units per year after his throwing in the next spring in Europe, North America and Japan.
Renault exhibited a new "Megane" of five doors. The biggest second one manufacturer French, who eliminates 6.000 work places to stay profitable, hopes that the model should compensate the scarce sales of the Lagoon of low cost.
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This new “Toyota Prius Plug-in”, which is exhibited in Paris, is electrical and it is possible to recharge in any domestic plug.
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The whole scale
But the manufacturers, with music of rock and clouds of dry ice, develaron numerous models of elegant lines, testimony of an industry that strains for adapting itself to an age of costly gasoline and worries on the global warming.
The exhibition showed the whole scale, from the extreme luxury up to the maximum economy. Renault showed his Formula one model. Peugeot presented his for the series of “Him Mans”. Mercedes threw his new limousine reinforced for celebrities and personages. Ferrari they competed for the attention of the visitors with not pollutant electrical vehicles.
The sample of two weeks was opened to the public on Saturday, after two days of previous presentations only for the press
Alluvium of "electrical" prototypes
As the competition enters heat for offering the first electrical motorcar, the self-propelled companies that hope to grow with the environmental worries presented on Friday, the 3rd several models in the Lounge of the Motorcar, in Paris.
But the executives admitted that the suspense persists on the batteries necessary to impel them: the technology must advance to reduce the costs and to expire with the requisites. Also the infrastructure is not to recharge them.
Some of the models in the exhibition are still prototypes – like the Renault Z.E. Concept - while others, like the electrical Smart ED DE DAIMLER AG, have entered the tests stage.
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Izda.: Nissan does not remain behind and exhibits in Paris his electrical prototype “NuVu“, of high yield and under cost. Dcha.: An employee of the Lounge of Paris cleans the new electrical car of Smart ED, who is in tests stage.
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The majority will not be free commercially several years, and nevertheless the manufacturers say that they will have to struggle to satisfy the demand.
" The investments necessary for the electrical motorcars are colossal", admitted the general manager of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, during the exhibition. "The question is not if the demand will be sufficient. It is if the offer will be capable of following the rhythm of the demand that is already present", he said.
The electrical vehicles exist for more than one century. In 1899, "Jamais Contente" or "Perennial unsatisfied", in the shape of sausage, overcame the barrier of 60 miles per hour when the motorcars to engine were still an oddness.
What has hindered the development of the electrical motorcar has been his capacity of storage of energy: the drummers were lacking the effectiveness and status needed for his regular use.
Since then the technology has developed and the analysts say that the recent progresses are promising in the technology of cells of lithium - ión that there glide to use Daimler, Renault, General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC.
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A multitude is present at the international cars exhibition in Paris, which opens his doors to the public from Saturday, the 4th, until Sunday, the 19th.
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A SECRET kept GOOD was supported by “Ford Motor“, the American manufacturer who this Monday, the 6th announced the introduction of the system “MiKey“ ("Millave") in all his motorcars from 2010. The announcement, which we spread in this edition, of course will finish with the pain of many family parents of adolescent drivers, whom they advise, without a lot of success, to handle his vehicles at a suitable speed.
The above mentioned device will allow to drive at a 80 miles maximum speed per hour, as tells the chief of the department of electronic and electrical systems of Ford's engineering. Let's hope that this technology should serve to reduce the tremendous mortality rates in transport accidents led by adolescents in the country.
THE “CITY LIGHT” turned from Saturday, the 4th in the world capital of the motorcar and in spite of the damaged world economic panorama, little could steam up the habitual resplendence of a sample that does sophistication boasting. "It is not good" the financial climate, there commented laconically the general manager of Volkswagen, Martin Winterkorn, in declarations to the press during the opening of the famous exhibition, of which we realize on the following pages. "We do not know if we are in the beginning of the end or in the end of the beginning", affirmed the general manager of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, who calculated that the world economic depression might last up to two years, affecting the sales of railcars.
ON EAST POINT, Citigroup anticipates that 2008 will be the first year of declination of volume of sales from 2001 for the world industry railcar. Last month it already reduced his calculations for this year and 2009, after the declinations in the records of new motorcars in Western Europe, the United States and Japan. On this matter, Jim Lentz, president of Toyota Motor Sales USA, admitted recently that the market of the housing of the nation keeps on weighing on the sales of motorcars. He added that probably the industry will not return at his maximum levels up to probably next decade. Nevertheless, Toyota supports his prognosis of the sales of the industry of 2008 in about 14.1 million vehicles, after the failure of the financier Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, indicated Lentz, during a self-propelled conference organized by the news agency Reuters in Detroit. Also it expressed his hope that the self-propelled sector of the country should stay relatively stable in 2009 with the potential for an increase of about 200.000 vehicles, “depending on the market of the housing, the prices of the gasoline and the stability of the credit market”.
Up to the next one,
Víctor Caycho
Publisher of Autoguide
E-mail: vcaycho@msn.com
www.hwc-md.org
| If it does not use often his vehicle |
| It is necessary to be very careful with the battery of his motorcar |
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For a sure and comfortable conduction, it is important to start the engine and to load the battery when the motorcar has not moved for several days.
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Latin context
The vehicles that are not used often are exposed to numerous problems that can affect his functioning and cause him inconveniences when it is in the highway. There are several reasons by which a vehicle is not used often:
1. - If his owner is a person of advanced age that has stopped feeling comfortable, he feels something of fear to be after the rudder, or uses it only for rapid trips to the market.
2. - If the vehicle belongs to a university student who cannot have it in the parking of the enclosure of studies, or only it uses the weekends.
3. - If the vehicle is a classic motorcar or of collector who only manages in magnificent meteorological conditions to show it before the friends or neighbors.
The problems arise because the vehicles that are not used often are capable to diverse flaws, especially in the battery.
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The drummers "suffer" when the vehicle is without use several days and it is necessary to recharge it properly to have no problems in the highways.
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For that reason it is important to start the engine and to load the battery if the motorcar has not moved in several days. For it it is necessary to cover it during a good stretch, in a prudential time and at a suitable speed.
The moisture accumulated in the conduits of gasoline is also a problem that could give like turned out a deficient functioning of the engine, or even that the same one could not start in a certain moment.
On the other hand, the vehicles that are used for frequent and short trips do not have the time sufficient to warm up and they are victims of premature flaws in the system of leakage. If it happens, the excessive deposits in the engine can affect of adverse form the yield of the engine.
To remedy these situations, the selection of some person who realizes long trips to speed moderated in a vehicle that is not used often can work marvels to improve the long-term functioning.
