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Lutz Update: Volt moves from Malibu to Cruze mules

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/chevrolet/" rel="tag"Chevrolet/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag"GM/a/pa href="http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/archives/2008/11/volt_the_next_phase.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/11/volt-lutz.jpg" //abr /br /Things are moving along quite nicely with the development of the Chevy Volt. According to Bob Lutz, test mules of the extended-range electric vehicle are now being built atop the soon-to-be-released Chevy Cruze. This is a logical progression since the production Volt will share its Delta underpinnings with the new compact from General Motors when it finally goes on sale in 2010. Prior to these latest mules, the test cars used last-gen Malibu shells that Lutz and the team affectionately referred to as "MaliVolts." Predictably, Mr. Lutz praises the new Delta platform, and we have every reason to believe that it will be leaps and bounds better than its Cobalt forebear, just as that model is light-years ahead of the Cavalier it replaced. Lutz goes on to say that the battery pack, motor and internal combustion engine are all working very well together, even in the freezing cold temperatures around Detroit these days. It all sounds rather promising, though it'd be even better if that first paragraph on the a href="http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/archives/2008/11/volt_the_next_phase.html"FastLane Blog/a weren't necessary, right?br /br /[Source: a href="http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/archives/2008/11/volt_the_next_phase.html"GM FastLane/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/lutz-update-volt-moves-from-malibu-to-cruze-mules/"Lutz Update: Volt moves from Malibu to Cruze mules/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://fastlane.gmblogs.com/archives/2008/11/volt_the_next_phase.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/lutz-update-volt-moves-from-malibu-to-cruze-mules/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1379856/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/lutz-update-volt-moves-from-malibu-to-cruze-mules/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hxxzqhpeiBUXccxszgiVIEx_YEM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hxxzqhpeiBUXccxszgiVIEx_YEM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=bhIDf7Xc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=bhIDf7Xc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=sWkOjqCv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=sWkOjqCv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/P7OTcERLZGU" height="1" width="1"/

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Fisker Karma to use GM's 2.0-liter turbo'd four

Autoblog

- 1 days ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ice/" rel="tag"I.C.E./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag"GM/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583252/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/fisker_karma_450.jpg" alt="" //abr / div style="text-align: center;"emstrongsmallClick above for high-res gallery of the Fisker Karma/small/strong/embr //div br /Fisker Automotive has apparently decided that 260 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque should be plenty of power to recharge some batteries. Those 260 galloping ponies will come courtesy of the General in the form of its 2.0L direct injected and turbocharged Ecotec four banger, an engine that we've sampled ourselves plenty of times. We feel well qualified, therefore, to suggest that this is an excellent motor, but it really sounds like a major case of overkill for this particular application. Perhaps that's better than "underkill" (if such a word actually existed) as that powerful engine ought to be able to recharge the Fisker Karma's on-board lithium ion batteries at an extremely brisk pace. The faster the internal combustion engine can charge up the battery pack, the quicker the car can revert back to its native electric-only operation. Plus, that engine is a relatively light chunk of alloy, so the Karma's motor shouldn't be burdened by the gasoline-fed boat anchor too horribly under electric power. br /br /We also find it a bit interesting that Fisker chose GM as its powertrain supplier, which means that the Karma and GM's own Chevy Volt are now even closer cousins than before. Both vehicles will sport four doors, lithium ion batteries and an extended-range electric vehicle drivetrain; and with this announcement, both are now slated to share a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/09/25/gm-officially-announces-flint-mi-production-for-volt-cruze-engin/"four cylinder engines/a from GM. This kinda makes 'em second-cousins through marriage, no?br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/"Fisker Karma/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583462/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive81_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583460/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive87_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583465/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive85_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583328/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/0010fiskerkarma_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583461/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive88_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emFisker Karma to use GM's 2.0-liter turbo'd four/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/"Fisker Karma to use GM's 2.0-liter turbo'd four/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1379597/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/uiMvQTlG-9SlZQ25jVmCoALpP8I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/uiMvQTlG-9SlZQ25jVmCoALpP8I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=fzxlh1BU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=fzxlh1BU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=GFImcr6A"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=GFImcr6A" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/vwqCftRe-uk" height="1" width="1"/

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Honda's FC Sport fuel-cell hybrid debuts in a puff of conceptual smoke

Engadget

- 2 days and 10 hours ago

div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/01_honda_fc_sport_press-600.jpg" /br //div If the a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/tesla%20roadster"Tesla Roadster/a has proven anything other than the disruptive effects of a hyper-inflated ego, it's that well designed eco-vehicles will sell... at any price. Yet the general design theme amongst hybrid builders appears to be your a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/prius"grandfather's/a a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/volt"loafer/a. Honda too, just look at the a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/fcx%20clarity"FCX Clarity/a. So we're pretty stoked to see Honda roll out its FC Sport concept three-seater (driver front-and-center) at the LA Auto Show using the same V-Flow fuel cell stack and electric drivetrain found in the FCX Clarity. Only thing is, it's a non-functional concept with little hope of hitting the market anytime soon if history serves. Good news for GM but bad news for consumers. As a wise man of consumer electronics once said: br /blockquote"You know how you see a show car, and it's really cool, and then four years later you see the production car, and it sucks? And you go, What happened? They had it! They had it in the palm of their hands! They grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory! What happened was, the designers came up with this really great idea. Then they take it to the engineers, and the engineers go, 'Nah, we can't do that. That's impossible.' And so it gets a lot worse. Then they take it to the manufacturing people, and they go, 'We can't build that!' And it gets a lot worse." br //blockquoteOr to paraphrase: It's like asking for a Big Mac and getting a fish sandwich.br /br /a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1118384,00.html"Read/a -- Parable of the Concept Car br /a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/11/19/la-2008-honda-pulls-a-surprise-with-fc-sport-concept/"Read/a -- FC SportpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"Transportation/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/hondas-fc-sport-fuel-cell-hybrid-debuts-in-a-puff-of-conceptual/"Honda's FC Sport fuel-cell hybrid debuts in a puff of conceptual smoke/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/hondas-fc-sport-fuel-cell-hybrid-debuts-in-a-puff-of-conceptual/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1377808/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/hondas-fc-sport-fuel-cell-hybrid-debuts-in-a-puff-of-conceptual/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Uq1AVoJ8gOOVzqIx4dHDu3-BBEc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Uq1AVoJ8gOOVzqIx4dHDu3-BBEc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=1HQqYTl7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=1HQqYTl7" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=89fKpcqH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=89fKpcqH" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/yZcdYZfw8N0" height="1" width="1"/

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Wii Theremin

MAKE Magazine

- 2 days and 13 hours ago

Ken Moore, a user experience designer at Google, created a very convincing Theremin simulator using a Wiimote and a Roland JV-1080 synth.

I've seen a few Theremin simulators that use accelerometer data, in both Wiimote and iPhone form, but this is the first I've seen that does a good job of recreating an authentic Theremin experience in all its 50s sci-fi awesomeness. Using some IR gloves and the Wiimote's CCD, one hand's horizontal movement controls pitch and the other hand's vertical movement controls volume.

At just $35, the Wiimote is an AMAZING piece of technology. It has an infrared camera in it which tracks the position up to 4 infrared light sources. So I bought a pair of leather gloves, wired up a couple infrared LEDs to 1.5 volt batteries, and poked an LED through the tip of the index finger of each glove.

Then, I connected my Wiimote to my computer (the Wiimote also supports Bluetooth connections): building on top of Brian Peek's Wiimote hacking software library, I wrote a program which detects the two infrared gloves and converts the vertical position of the left hand to volume, and converts the horizontal position of the right hand to pitch. That information is then sent via MIDI to the synthesizer which creates the actual sound.

One of the more interesting possibilities with this setup is that by adjusting the synthesizer, you can use a Theremin-like interface to control a huge number of effects, not just the standard sci-fi sine wave. I wonder if Léon Theremin would approve.

Wii Theremin

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