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Prodrive

  • . A deal between automotive technology specialist Prodrive and Commuter Cars Corporation (CCC) of Spokane, Washington will see the Banbury-based company managing the construction of up to 100 radical new electric commuter vehicles every year.
  • . Two high efficiency electric motors driving the rear wheels can produce a combined torque level of over 1, 000 ft lbs to deliver levels of acceleration more commonly associated with supercars than eco-friendly transport.
  • . Commuter Cars Corporation is run by Tango designer Rick Woodbury and his son Bryan.
  • . “We built our first running prototype in 1998 and we’ve been refining the design ever since.” Commuter Cars Corporation has chosen a route to production as radical as its vehicle design.
  • . At the same time, they are used to building, modifying and testing passenger cars to the highest OEM standards.” “Prodrive is one very few organisations world wide that could actually do what we have done with the Tango, ” says Geoff Bye, Prodrive project manager for the CCC project.



    Halfbakery: Electric commuter car with removable batteries
  • . A simple idea: make the batteries removable (+2, -1) [vote , ] A tiny problem with electric cars is that you have to recharge them.



    Bilevel Gallery Commuter Railcar Page
  • Midwest Transportation and Development Corporation 847-951-7245 (Voice) 847-498-9738 (Fax) Bi-Level Gallery Commuter Car Site Bilevel Cars in Service in San Francisco on Caltrain - (Click on Photo to Enter Site) New on the site! A "Resources and Links" page (See Below for Link) Flash! The E-8 and E-9 locomotives on this site are being offered at an auction for "The Acadian Railway", found at: http://www.trainsale.com/locomotives.htm If you've reached this page, you are among those contacted to view rolling stock, which we are making available for service in 2004.
  • . These cars: 1) Will enable "quick-starts" for demonstration commuter operation 2) Will accelerate the development of a commuter rail system (Delivery time for rolling stock is often 2 - 3 years and is a far more expensive option) 3) Are perfect for short-to-medium distance intercity market, as seating configurations and density can easily be tailored to the market served.
  • . Though these cars are presently configured as high-density coaches, it is a simple affair to convert them to a food service and/or lounge, parlor or specialized use car.



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  • COMET II COMMUTER CARS & Each Atlas O Comet II Commuter Car includes: Full scale length, approximately 21.5" Available in both coach and commuter cab versions Accurate scale details Separately applied metal handrails Rubber tubular-type diaphragms on each end ( 1 on the commuter cab car) Interior seating Accurate inside-bearing commuter trucks Operating tail lights (operating tail lights and headlight on cab car) Die-cast operating couplers (3-rail) Accurate painting and lettering 2 rail version equipped with scale wheelsets and body-mounted Kadee compatible couplers Minimum radius (3 rail) O-54 Comet II Commuter Cars - Prototype Background The Comet II commuter pasenger cars were first introduced by Bombardier in 1980-81.
  • . The cars had their genesis in the earlier Comet commuter cars which were built for the Erie Lackawanna and New Jersey DOT.
  • . The cars have gained great acceptance with many transit agencies including NJ Transit, MBTA, SEPTA, Metro-North and others.

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    UniSA : SEC_Research
  • . Solar powered racing cars are able to travel 700km in a day at speeds greater than 90km/h, yet we still drive around town in heavy, noisy, polluting cars.


    UniSA : SEC_Research
  • . Solar powered racing cars are able to travel 700km in a day at speeds greater than 90km/h, yet we still drive around town in heavy, noisy, polluting cars.
  • . Our aim is to design and build a commuter vehicle with: two comfortable seats, luggage space, easy entry and exit, and good all-round vision a small, aerodynamic body energy-efficient tyres, brakes and suspension an efficient electric drive system, recharged using renewable energy performance at least as good as conventional cars compliance with road safety and worthiness regulations a commuting range of 100-150km; and electrical energy use less than 200kJ/km See also: Specifications Size Mass Seats Wheels Ty


    gizmag Article: A new breed of high performance electric car
  • . During January's Los Angeles Auto Show, the company demonstrated how capacious the Tango's second seat is by putting a 210cm NBA basketballer in the passenger seat, and Commuter Cars Corporation's CEO Rick Woodbury in the front - both were seated comfortably.
  • . Typically, Commuter Cars Corporation expects one would just plug in each night at home and get a complete charge in less than three hours and be ready for work the next morning.


    Illinois Railway Museum - C&NW Gallery Cars
  • C&NW Gallery Cars From Rail & Wire Issue 179, September 1999 by Dave Phillips Looking much like they did in the early 1960's, before a lifetime of service on the Chicago & North Western and Metra, the three huge gallery cars make an impressive sight in their "new" paint scheme after arrival at Union this spring.
  • . Photo by Peter Schmidt The acquisition of three former Chicago & North Western Gallery Cars was first reported in the January/February 1998 issue of Rail & Wire.
  • . These cars are now on the property at Union, and have been repainted in their C&NW paint scheme and renumbered accordingly.
  • . They were the first Gallery cars constructed for the C&NW.
  • . The third car, C&NW 151 (Metra 8700) was built in 1960 as part of an order for 116 push-pull commuter cars constructed by Pullman Standard.
  • . The 151 is the first of the cab cars in that order.
  • . These control cab cars were the first of their kind for the C&NW, and the first of their type in North America.
  • . This article will cover the acquisition of the cars, a brief history of both the cab car design and cab car 151 specifically, and the restoration work completed to date on the cars.

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    AutoTrader.com - Articles: Top 10 Features for Commuter Cars
  • > > > > Top 10 Features for Commuter Cars from Edmunds.com Top 10 Features for Commuter Cars by Liz Kim Here's an interesting statistic: In 1997 traffic delays totaled 4.3 billion hours in America.
  • . Why, that's just about the amount of time that last year's Oscars broadcast ran over schedule! Seriously, a commute (and usually one that's marred by traffic) is an indelible part of most people's lives, and by estimates, time spent in traffic will only grow lengthier as the years progress.
  • . Here are 10 that we look for in cars we evaluate; we think you should consider them as well.
  • . Automatic transmission — Nine out of every 10 cars sold in the U.S.
  • . Beyond that, we feel that air conditioning is a must, even on lower-scale cars.
  • . Controlled NVH — Cars like the Acura Integra Type R or the Toyota Celica GT-S are a riot when canyon carving on your favorite twisty road.
  • . Again, most cars are a compromise between providing a sporty suspension system and a compliant ride.


    C&NW Chicago Commuter Trains (1972)
  • C&NW Chicago Commuter Trains (1972) Overview Chicago and North Western's first bi-level gallery cars for Chicago commuter service arrived in 1954.
  • . Cab-equipped cars arrived in 1960 to allow push-pull service, with locomotives pushing trains into the city and pulling them out.
  • . These trains operated on three major routes from Chicago, with trains of up to ten cars during the rush-hour peaks.
  • . These two cars are examples of the 157 bi-level (gallery) coaches produced for the C&NW by Pullman-Standard in 1960 through 1970.
  • . The earliest cars could be recognized by the air conditioning intake above the double doors, which had two sets of louvers with a vertical separation in the middle.
  • . On later cars, this intake was divided into quarters.
  • . These two cars are examples of the 74 bi-levels with control cabs produced for the C&NW by Pullman-Standard in 1960 through 1968.
  • . The air conditioning intake distinguished early cars from late ones, just as with the coaches.


    NTL Catalog:Estimation of residual stresses in railroad commuter car wheels following manufacture
  • . Benjamin TRT Keywords: Railroad trains; Commuter cars; Wheels; Heat transfer; Structural analysis; Thermal fatigue; Finite element method; Simulation Subject Keywords: Railroad commuter car wheels; Thermal cracks Abstract: A finite element simulation is presented for the prediction of residual stresses resulting from the heat treatment of railroad commuter car wheels during manufacture.


    Transit Rider Light Rail Vehicles - Bombardier
  • . Version 3.5 Bombardier Description: Bombardier Commuter and Light Rail cars used on Portland, Los Angeles, and San Diego Vehicle Type: Double Deck Commuter Passenger Car and Light Rail Vehicle Years: 1970s to 2000+ for Commuter car.
  • . Photo Library ACE uses equipment similar to Metrolink and Coaster in southern California 03-Mar-00 ACE trains go backwards all the way from San Jose to Stockton 03-Mar-00 ACE outbound train 03-Mar-00 Metrolink cab cars come in two varieties, single window and double window versions 28-Jul-98 Someday the Pasadena Blue Line will end here.

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    Carsharing in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area

  • | Alternatives to the Car Culture Topics Need a car for only an hour? Want to run errands at lunch? Have a business meeting? Spouse has the car for the day? Try carsharing.
  • . Carsharing is the solution for those times when you need a car.
  • . With carsharing, you can rent the car for as little as a half-hour.
  • . Cars are self-service and parked nearby.
  • . Here’s the best part: when you carshare, the price includes gas, insurance, and maintenance and you only pay for the time you use.
  • . What is carsharing? Carsharing is similar to car rental with the main differences being you can use the carsharing vehicle for as little as a half-hour and the cars are located in the communities rather than at a central car rental location.
  • . In short, carsharing serves as a unique cross between a rental car and cab service.
  • . Carsharing began in Switzerland in the 1980's and has expanded throughout Europe to include 450 cities.
  • . with carsharing organizations located in Seattle, Chicago, Portland, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Denver, San Diego, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC.


    A COMMUTER CAR FOR THE MILLENNIUM
  • . If viewed as an air bag, the inflatable car will not need costly and toxic sodium azide propellant (read explosive) and it will not kill small drivers when they run into shopping carts in parking lots or drive down particularly rough roads (yes airbags have already exploded in cars driven on rough roads).
  • . But back to inflatable cars.
  • . In addition, as there would have to be a continuous flow of air through the car in order to keep the oxygen level to our liking, the result would be a general filtering of the whole atmosphere once enough cars of this type were on the road.
  • . The tiller was never a great success in even the earliest cars.
  • . In the great cause of global warming the very low mass of these cars will mean that their energy expenditure per mile traveled will be much less than any steel car thereby minimizing the production of all exhaust gases including the greenhouse variety.
  • . Critics might say that nobody will drive an inflatable car when they have to mix with Mack Trucks and other denizens of the road but the merits of the concept are so compelling that cities might well designate zones in which only inflatable cars can be used.


    Top 10 Features for Commuter Cars Identified by Edmunds.com
  • Welcome, | Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jeannine Fallon PR Director Office: 503-796-0090 Pam Krebs Communications Strategy Director Office: 310-309-4912 Top 10 Features for Commuter Cars Identified by Edmunds.com SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
  • . Controlled noise, vibration and handling Excessive engine vibration, road noise and wind noise can prove very annoying for those who spend a lot of time in their cars, so pay attention to this during test drives.

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