Inflatable Electric Cars

XP Vehicles, Inc. is an electric powered automobile technology startup with patent protected technologies utilizing safe non-grid-connected energy cassettes to produce the electricity to run a polymer airbeam, carbon fiber constructed ultra light automobile. Goes 300 Miles on one charge. Hot swapping can increase the range indefinitely. Hot-swap XPack Multi-CoreTM Battery/Fuel Cell power plant has been patented Vehicles can be flat-pack shipped directly to users. Users perform final inflation. Cost less that $5,000. This may be a real innovation. Special stabilization provides stability on the road. Some speculate that air cushion makes the cars very safe in collision. May be able to survive going over a cliff!

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Listen to the clip of Jim Russ and Dr. Richard Shurtz, President of Stratford University, and host of Tech Talk, a program about computers and information technology talk about this amazing vehicle.

Visit the Website at: http://www.xpcarteam.com/

The most important sensor in a car that will improve miles per gallon?

What sensor is most important in a car because it will effect gas mileage?

The most important sensor is the coolant temperature sensor which tells the computer how hot or cold the engine is running. Cold engines require more fuel to run properly than hot engines so if the computer does not receive accurate coolant temperature data, fuel mileage will suffer.

Storing Tires

I have heard that I should not store my Winter tires in a basement or in my garage. Why is that so?

Electric motors and welders emit harmful ozone that degrades the quality of rubber tires. Do not store winter tires near these items. If you have an air compressor in your garage, a heating system with an electric motor in your basement, that is not a very good place to store them because those devices will generate ozone!

Brake Wear

I have heard that on lots of cars with 4 wheel disc brakes, that frequently they will wear 2 sets of rear pads to one set of front pads. I thought it was just the opposite. Shouldn't the fronts wear faster? How is this explained?











The reason is that almost always the semi-metallic brake pads are used in the front and organic pads in the rear. It turns out that the semi-metallic's wear better than the organics, meaning they last longer! Organic pads are softer and tend to wear out faster, but they do cut down on noise. However you will see variations of this and some cars now use ceramic pads on all four corners.