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  • India's Tata Motors to launch ultra-cheap Nano car

    03/22/2009 11:05:36 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 31 replies · 1,307+ views
    sfgate ^ | March 22, 2009 | ERIKA KINETZ
    Tata Motors said it will launch its ultra-cheap Nano car in Mumbai on Monday — a vehicle meant to herald a revolution by making it possible for the world's poor to purchase their first car. But few predict the snub-nosed Nano will be able to turn around the company, which has been beset by flagging sales and high debt, anytime soon. The Nano, which is priced starting at about 100,000 rupees ($2,050), is a stripped-down car for stripped-down times: It is 10.2 feet (3.1 meters) long, has one windshield wiper, a 623cc rear engine, and a diminutive trunk, according to...
  • Nano-car gets an engine (twenty-thousand nano-cars could park on tip of human hair)

    04/17/2006 6:38:11 AM PDT · by Wiz · 34 replies · 839+ views
    NewScientist Tech ^ | 2006 Apr 14 | Tom Samonite
    Researchers have installed a molecular engine into a "car" just a few billionths of a metre long. Measuring just 3 by 4 nanometres, around 20,000 of the cars could be parked on the tip of a human hair. Jim Tour and colleagues at Rice University in Houston, US, built a chassis and wheels for a nano-car from organic molecules at the end of 2005. The engineless model could only be powered remotely - using a heated gold surface to stop its wheels sticking and an electromagnetic field to drag it forwards. But the new model should be able to propel...