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Green tuned cars are cars that has been tuned to use alternative propulsion or deeper alternative propulsion.
Types of green tuning
- Electric vehicle conversion
- Hybridization.
- Pluginization of hybrid cars.
An electric vehicle conversion is the modification of a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) driven vehicle to battery electric propulsion, creating a battery electric vehicle. In some cases the vehicle may be built by the converter, or assembled from a kit car, and vehicles of this type are also noted below.
Vehicles may be converted by a manufacturer (as was done by Ford Motor Company to create the Ford Ranger EV or by an independent converter that purchases new vehicles without motors and related equipment (these are called "gliders"). Most conversions in North America are performed by hobbyists who typically will convert a well used vehicle with a non-functioning engine, since such defective vehicles can be quite inexpensive to purchase. Other hobbyists with larger budgets may prefer to convert a later model vehicle, or a vehicle of a particular type.
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Nicolaus Otto
Nikolaus August Otto (June 14, 1832 Holzhausen, Nassau - January 26, 1891 Cologne) was the German inventor of the internal-combustion engine, the first engine to burn fuel directly in a piston chamber. Up until his invention, all engines were external-combustion engines and fuel was burned in a separate compartment.
In 1864, Otto co-founded an engine manufacturing business in Cologne. Along with his business partner Eugen Langen he established “N.A. Otto & Cie.”. This company exists today as “Deutz AG”, who boasts the fact that they are the world's oldest engine manufacturers, with over 140 years of experience. (more...)
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The Japanese will never equal the name of Ferrari or Lamborghini, even with the NS-X. A name like Honda can never rise up, even if it builds the best car in the world. A Honda will always be a Honda.
-Mauro Forghieri of Lamborghini describing Honda's new supercar in 1989
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