You won't believe, this tiny car was the world's quickest street-legal EV

Don't judge the book, from its cover is the appropriate term, do not judge things by their outward form, but also see its contents. A car made in 1973 was named as the quickest street legal electric-powered vehicles in the world.

Although the body still retains the shape of the original manufacturer, but the iniards are not original anymore. This little British EV put a beat down on the Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren 650S, Porsche 911 Turbo S, the Nissan GT-R, and even Tesla’s Model S P90D.

Flux Capacitor, an Enfield 8000-based electric car was crowned the quickest street-legal electric vehicles in the world. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cbr7q)

One of the Enfield 8000 cars named Flux Capacitor is not using a standard electric drive manufacturers, but has been modified. Batteries using lithium ion taken from the Bell Super-Cobra helicopter. Power from the battery is supplied to the two electric motors DC 9 inches is placed on the rear wheels. With that change, Flux Capacitor can generate the power equivalent to 800 bhp and a maximum torque of 1,627 nm.

The car's owner as well as a journalist, Jonny Smith himself who did the record-breaking. This car is able to reach a distance of 0-400 meters in 9.86 seconds. Acceleration from 0-182 kilometers per hour could be reached within six seconds.

Jonny Smith’s Flux Capacitor electric hot rod. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cbsFY)

Actually, in June 2016, a team of students of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the University Hochschule Luzern, Sweden, have developed a prototype electric car named Grimsel. The car is capable of accelerating from 0-100 km/h in 1.513 seconds. Note that making it as the fastest electric car in the world. Only, Grimsel not equipped with doors, lights, and roof meet common standards so it can not be used on the street. In contrast to the Flux Capacitor that can be used legally on the streets because the components are still the standard.

And here's the proof. Neverminds Ludicrous Mode, that's some serious speed. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cbr51)

"I am amazed that the 'little yellow' can resolve the problem. Although many drivers who told me that a car with the wheelbase of 68 inches is not safe to use in high speed, Enfield has proved that assumption was wrong," Smith said.

According to him, an Enfield 8000 in standard conditions only could reach a maximum speed of 64 km/h. Which mean the Flux Capacitor can run three times faster within a distance of 400 meters compared to the standard version.

Enfield itself is known as the pioneer of electric cars manufacturer based in the UK. The weight of the car can be lightweight because it is made of steel and aluminum tubes. Like a modern car that exists today, its lead acid batteries can deliver the car through 80-145 km on a single charged.

After three years of production, problems began to arise the soaring raw material prices which have an impact on the production cost overruns. Enfield finally go bankrupt and until the company closed only approximately 100 units of Enfield 8000 were produced. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | ARS TECHNICA | TOP SPEED]

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Here's the flower whose has shocked the world

The flowers are usually identified with the beautiful face of a woman. However, the new orchid species are found in the southern part of Colombia will not make you think so.

In the middle part of the crown of flowers named Telipogon diabolicus, looks creepy, may be said to be very scary because it is similar to the figure of the devil.

Telipogon diabolicus was named for its flowers' heart-shaped gynostemium, which look like a devil's head. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cc1dp)

Purplish red flower was discovered through research conducted by Marta Kolanowska and Dariusz Szlachetko from the University of Gdansk and Ramiro Media Trejo of Colombia.

The flower has a height of about 5.5 to 9 centimeters, the novelty of devil-like orchids was determined by an observation of 30 individuals.

Although scary, the orchids just needs to be protected. Its spread very limited and the population inadequate so categorized as "Endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The orchid also has "distinctly clawed petals," adding to its demonic appearance, according to the researchers who discovered it.. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cc1dp)

If this orchids species is lost because of the destruction of habitat, humans may be losing one of the most horrific orchids in the world. In the publication of ZooKeys journal as quoted by EurekAlert on July 12, 2016 ago, the scientists said that the latest catalog shows the 3,600 species of orchids throughout Colombia.

Scientists believe there are still many orchids that can not be described. Meanwhile, the habitat of many species of orchids continue to decrease so that a species potentially extinct before it was discovered.

While Indonesia itself is suspected of storing about 30,000 species of orchids. The Indonesian archipelago orchids also have a unique, such as orchids that have "horns" on its crown. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LIVESCIENCE]

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Čezeta electric scooter ready to hit the road again

After receiving the 'new oxygen' from a British expatriate, Neil Eamonn Smith in 2012. Čezeta Motor s.r.o, the Czech's scooter manufacturer which has existed since 1964 (jump to previous article) is now able to produce a new scooter, ie. Čezeta 506.

Čezeta 506 electric scooter ready to hit the road again. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cfHlL)

Čezeta 506 was developed in Prague are now ready to enter the production line and will be sold for the first time in October 2016, with prices in the range of $7,738 or equivalent Rp.101 million.

Čezeta scooter quite well known in Europe in the past because has a controversial designs such as "torpedo" on the front snout, and continue like that until now. Unless the petrol engine has been decommissioned and transformed into an electric scooter.

The electric motor that drives the scooter produces about 15 hp of power and its battery provides the mileage up to 100 km and a top speed of 110 kph, as well as claimed used the same technology as in Tesla.

Čezeta 506 scooter fully built by hand in a limited number per year. The unique shaped scooter used the wheels measuring 13 inches making it more stable also embedded the disc brakes systems plus ABS (in front and rear).

Kept spur your adrenaline on the power of two-wheeled monster and stay alive with the true safety riding. God will forgive Your sins.... *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | CEZETA]

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A prewar Alfa Romeo set to break auction record

A premier example of prewar automotive excellence, a 1939 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Spider by Carrozzeria Touring will surely spark a battle of bids at the RM Sotheby’s Monterey sale in Monterey, California, on August 19 - 20, 2016.

This Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Touring Spider is expected to set a record for a pre-war car sold at auction. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cfTaQ)

Nicknamed the "Alfa 2.9," it was one of the true templates for the gran turismo and rivals Bugatti’s Type 57 variations in art deco artisanship. Of the 32 original chassis known to have been built, No. 412041 is one of only about 12 spiders in the line with bodywork by Carrozzeria Touring.

Left side view of Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Touring Spider is displayed at Sotheby's in New York City. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cfU7e)

It was built using its patented Superleggera (Italian for super lightweight) construction method, consisting of an inner framework of pencil-thin, hollow steel tubes wrapped in outer panels of aluminum.

Rear view of Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Touring Spider is displayed at Sotheby's in New York City. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cfU7e)

Some of Touring’s best early Superleggera bodies were built on the 2.9 chassis, both the long-wheelbase Lungo and short-wheelbase Corto variants. Stand-out features include a steeply raked windscreen and grille, with the rear wheels covered by spats for improved aerodynamics. The long-wheelbase tourer touts a power train that includes a 182 hp, 2.9-liter supercharged straight-8 engine mated with a 4-speed gearbox.
1939 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Spider is expected to sell in the auction for around £20 million, or Rp 342 billion. I thought that's an outstanding number of money spent for the pre-war classic car. (Wanna look another expensive classic cars.) *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | TELEGRAPH]

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What would happens if the Comet Swift-Tuttle hit Our Earth?

The shooting star might be the thing that you admire as a kid, but the sky phenomenon has also become a strong warning that the Earth is not alone in the space, and the number of the space objects could become a hazard.

An artist illustration, the comet collision to the Earth. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cblBO)

In 1973, based on the orbit calculation of the object using limited observations, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics named Brian Marsden predicted that the Swift-Tuttle comet will hit the Earth in the year of 2126. However, these dire predictions ultimately did not happen, but what if the comet really hit the Earth?

"We must make it clear that it will not happen," said Donald Yeomans, a senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and author of "Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us" (Princeton University Press, 2012), as told to Live Science.

When the comet was last seen in 1992, Yeomans was making revisions models of comet movement, making complicated calculations to measure the gravitational effects of the sun and planets on the object space rocks.

Of sightings in 1992, plus the data from 1862 and 1737, showed that astronomers have enough information to find the possibility of a collision in 2126. Keep in mind, Comet Swift-Tuttle instead of the usual space rock.

Such as the Perseid meteor shower, which appeared annual in mid-August occurs when the Earth passed by a trail of debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cbkRN)

Comet Swift-Tuttle is the greatest objects that cross the Earth, said Yeomans. The object is within 16 miles, and across the Earth every 130 years, and moving at a speed of 36 miles per second or 56 km/s.

The Comet Swift-Tuttle, the comet was discovered by Lewis Swift on July 16 and then a few days later by Horace Parnell Tuttle on July 19, 1862. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cblBO)

If the comet crashing into planet, the impact energy was approximately 300 times of the asteroid hit the Earth, causing the destruction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. "That would be the worst days for the Earth," he said further.

But the size of the comets or asteroids not be the only thing responsible for cosmic collisions, said Gerta Keller, a geographers at the Princeton University.

The fall of the comet to land or sea may cause destruction in the surrounding area, but the real devastation comes from the gas in the stratosphere, part of the Earth's atmosphere where the ozone layer is located. Sulfur dioxide causes cooling, heat and carbon dioxide causes long term heating, added Keller. This led to drastic climate change and brings mass extinction worldwide.

Keller also explained that most of the Earth  is ocean. Effects caused able to impact on the deep sea, such as the eruption of underwater volcanoes.

Based on the Scientists calculation, the arrival of the comet Swift-Tuttle to the Earth on August 5, 2126, within a distance of 14 million miles, equivalent to 60 times the distance of Earth to the Moon. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LIVESCIENCE]

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Ducati Origami Camo Special

Not only in Indonesia are overrun by modification motorcycles. In Europe too, but creations of the modifier artists in there admirable. By using the base of big motorbike, the modified results often can turn motorcycle display into extreme. One is a modified Ducati Desmosedici RR as follow.

Ducati Desmosedici Origami Camo Special by Death Spray Customs. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cGYsj)

Viewed as a whole, a modified version of the Ducati bike more like a folded paper. It is one of the creations of a British modification workshop named Death Spray Customs which uses a base of Ducati Desmosedici RR.

They called the modification result as the concept of 'origami camo' because it similar with the famous Japanese paper folding arts. Do you know? although the surface of the motorcycle (cursory) look like the motorcycle with complicated indentations, but in fact the motorcycle's body actually still intact and use the original fairing of Ducati.

The original figure of Ducati Desmosedici RR. (Picture from: http://adf.ly/1cGaW0)

The modification artists uses painting techniques are very complicated and detailed what they call the three-dimensional technique. As a result, the curve of the body looks very striking. But when viewed up close it was discovered that the notch visual effects only the deceptive vision alone. It very unique, creative and cool isn't!

Kept spur your adrenaline on the power of two-wheeled monster and stay alive with the true safety riding. God will forgive Your sins.... *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | DEATH SPRAY CUSTOMS]
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