here are hardly 15 days to go for the 2010 Formula 1 season kick-off in Bahrain. Almost all the teams have launched their 2010 challengers, and tested them in the official test sessions at Valencia and Jerez. The 2010 season sees some rule changes, though not as radical as what we had seen for the 2009 season. The biggest difference would be the banning of refuelling, which poses designers with the problem of accomodating a larger fuel tank. Another change is that the front tyres are made narrower, in comparison …

Hybrid automobiles:
Two questions are addressed in this article First isstrong>what is a hybrid vehicle??? and secondly how it works??Addressing the first question, Any vehicle that combines two or more power sources and can directly or indirectly provide propulsion power is a hybrid automobile.A simple example is the mo-ped which combines the pedaling power of the rider and the fuel ignition power.Submarines are another example of hybrid vehicles, which runs on nuclear as well as electric power.Most hybrid cars in market are either petrol-electric or diesel-electric hybrids.Hybrids are combination of both …

lectronic Brakeforce Distribution or EBD is an automobile brake technology that automatically varies the amount of brake-force applied to each of a vehicle’s wheels, depending on the road conditions, speed, loading, etc. The EBD is always coupled with ABS, and the system can ensure lesser braking distances, and more vehicular control under braking.
The front end of an automobile typically carries more weight compared to the rear, and the EBD ensures that lesser braking pressure is applied to the rear brakes, so that the rear wheels do not lock-up. When this …

BS stands for Anti-lock Braking System. The ABS is a safety system which prevents the wheels on a motor vehicle from locking while braking. The theory behind anti-lock brakes is simple – A skidding wheel has less traction than a non-skidding wheel. When a wheel is skidding, the tyre contact patch is sliding relative to the road, and when this happens the braking distance would be greater. By keeping the wheels from skidding while you slow down, anti-lock brakes benefit you in two ways: You’ll stop faster, and you’ll be …

ERS is a technology which is in it’s infancy, but once it has developed sufficiently, it could be one of the best things to have happened in the automobile world. KERS stands for Kinetic Energy Recovery System. Basically, it’s working principle involves storing the energy involved with deceleration and using it for acceleration. That is, when a car breaks, it dissipates a lot of kinetic energy as heat. The KERS system tries to store this energy and converts this into power, that can be caled upon to boost acceleration.
At the …