10 World's Fastest Electric Car: Review of electric cars

environmentally friendly electric-powered cars. Many global automobile manufacturers develop an electric car with the aim to offer advantages when behind the wheel of an electric car.



But not a lot of electric cars built by car manufacturers on the grounds of a sports car costs much less electricity. Only a small car manufacturer to develop an electric sports car.



Well, from the number of electric-powered concept car turned out to have had the most to offer advantages with a sense of speed. What is it? Listen to fast electric car developed by automotto.



1. Koenigsegg Quant



Behind the Koenigsegg Quant a fantastic body, there is a machine that can generate power of 512 hp with 715 Nm of torque. Amazingly moving from 0-100 km / h only takes 5.2 seconds with a maximum speed of 275 km / hour. This car is also equipped with regenerative braking that converts kinetic energy into electrical energy.



2. Shelby Aero Ev



Shelby Aero Ev once dubbed the world's fastest electric car. Bonnetnya stored behind a machine capable of spraying power sebasar 1000 hp capable of carrying a 0-100 km / h within 2.5 seconds only. The car can reach a maximum speed of 334 miles per hour. Classified as advanced batteries, the charging time of about 10 minutes can take you as far as 150 miles.



3. AC Propulsion TZero



AC Propulsion TZero developed by the United States car manufacturers, AC Propulsion. Car chassis is made of fiberglass and double wishbone suspension and rack-pinion steering. The engine can catapult a power of 200 hp with 240 Nm of torque. This car weighs 1,000 kg so the 0-100 km / h in just 4.07 seconds with a maximum speed of 250 km per hour. AC Propulsion TZero produced starting in 1997, but production was discontinued in 2003.



4. Jaguar C-X75

This car is one of hybrid cars with emissions of carbon dioxide terfenomenal 99 g / km, while able to run from 0-100 km / h in 3 seconds with a maximum speed of 320 km / hour. Jaguar C-X75 plan would be priced at 700,000 pound sterling



5. Peugeot EX1



Peugeot EX1 is 100 percent electric-powered cars. The energy stored in lithium-ion batteries are routed to two electric motors mounted on each axle. Each motor 170 capable of generating power Ps (Ps 340 total) plus 240 Nm of torque each wheel.



6. Li-ion Inizio

Li-ion Inizio is the most stylish electric car because it combines style, sports, unique to a single car. The battery can store power offers a maximum speed of 273 km per hour. While from 0-100 km / h with 3.4 seconds count. The interior is inspired by the Dodge Viper sports car and the outside Ferrari. The car is only produced as many as 2,500 units per year at a price of U.S. $ 139,000



7. Wrightspeed X1



The model is similar to the Ariel Atom. Wrightspeed X1 is one of the electric sports car that would make users dumbfounded. Because of 0-100 km / hour in a matter of 3 seconds. While the maximum speed can reach 167 miles per hour.



8. Tesla Roadster



Tesla Roadster was one of the environmentally friendly car that combines style. This electric sports car has become a mainstay of U.S. society that likes racing but still protecting the environment. The engine can shoot a power of 288 hp with 295 Nm. The car can move from 0-100 km / h 3.7 seconds and a maximum speed of 201 km per hour.



9. Fastest Electric F1 Car



This car is dubbed as a Formula 1 car the most environmentally friendly. Not just friendly is also one of the F1 car that carries the electrical machine. Moving from 0-100 km / h takes only 3 seconds with a maximum speed of 250 km / hour.



10. Ellica



Eliica-made electric car is a Japanese manufacturer to accommodate the urban community. Because the body is a bit chubby. But the electric motor capability good enough ie 0-100 km / h within 4 seconds. Electric motor capable of running Ellica to the limit speed of 370 miles per hour. Ellica is the result of the development of electric cars Keio University in Japan.

I'm Mad At Writers Who Kill Off Characters

I want to know what magnificent source...what God of Literature said that it is okay to kill off beloved characters.  Tell me this person's name because they're full of crap and I want them to know they are full of crap.  My post yesterday about Vincent Nigel-Murray being killed off in BONES I think is at the root of my recent feelings regarding this topic.  I LIKED that character and him being thrown down the tubes so that the bad guy that Booth has to face off against is even more evil is just plain stupid. People can argue, "Oh killing off a character makes it more realistic and is better because it shows the writer isn't willing to compromise to keep someone alive."

VINCENT'S DEATH--COMPLETY UNNECESSARY AND SAD

Oh yeah? How is it better?  Bones lost a viewer.  I'm not going to watch the seventh season. How's them apples?  Have I done this before?

You betcha.

DEEP SPACE NINE--STAR TREK.  The writers killed off Jadzia Dax and I was furious. FURIOUS. I stopped watching.  Rogue Mutt asked me in my Star Trek compilation why Deep Space Nine got no love.  The reason...the whole series got tainted in my eyes despite all the great stuff they did when they killed off Jadzia.

Amber a.k.a. Cutthroat Bitch

In HOUSE...the writers killed off Cutthroat Bitch.  Yeah that really was her name (done by House of course).  But my point is that she LOVED Wilson. She was a brilliant doctor. And they frickin' killed her off and I cried and the series hasn't been the same since.  I love Thirteen which is why I keep coming back to watch House but she's sick so the writers have probably got her death tacked up on a scorecard somewhere. Good thing that it's in season seven cause if I quit watching once they kill her off, then the series is over anyway.

I didn't like it when Robb Stark died in A Storm of Swords.  I think George R.R. Martin went way to frickin' far with that. And you know what? His first three books may have been masterpieces, but A Feast For Crows and A Dance With Dragons have been crap.  Some of this is (I think) because Robb Stark IS DEAD!  He wrote himself into that corner because with Robb alive, the Lannisters would still have someone to fight against and he wouldn't have had to go into the whole Greyjoy thing.

Now I admit, there are times when death is necessary.  Charlotte in Charlotte's Web needed to die because her species of spider dies every year. That's just nature.  Obi-Wan Kenobi needed to die so that he could lead Luke to Yoda and be with him in the cockpit to destroy the Death Star.  Dumbledore needed to die because J.K. Rowling wrote herself into a corner by making Dumbledore more powerful than Voldemort. With him around, NOTHING COULD HAPPEN.  But you writers out there who are rubbing your hands together saying, "I'm going to kill off this character because it will tug at the heartstrings of all my readers" followed by an evil cackle--THAT IS NOT A REASON TO KILL SOMEONE OFF.  Yes, you will get this reaction and then I WILL HATE YOU FOR IT.  You will lose a reader because I will get mad.  Think very carefully about who you axe in your books because I am not alone.  Make sure the death is necessary please.

Meaningless death is meaningless.  There is a reason I read fiction.  In everyday life, people for no reason at all end up dead over something as stupid as a fish bone in the throat.  When I read, I don't want real life.

Alphas

So I've been watching Alphas on SyFy and I really like this show. It has Ryan Cartwright in it (which was a big plus for me) because I loved him as Vincent Nigel-Murray in Bones and was really sad when he got killed in the last season of Bones. /sniff

Why did he have to die? Why couldn't it have been Wendell?

I love the way British guys talk.

I think that having him playing a character with severe autism brings out his true acting ability as he is obviously supressing his strong accent (a feat I'm sure that is difficult).

If you don't know what Alphas is...here's a summary:

Alphas is an action-packed thriller from writers Zak Penn (The Avengers, X-Men: The Last Stand) and Michael Karnow. In the series, five ordinary people are brought together to form one extraordinary team of Alphas -- people with the unique power to stretch the capabilities of the human mind giving them superhuman physical and mental abilities.

Operating within the Defense Criminal Investigation Service of the U.S. Department of Defense and led by preeminent neurologist and psychiatrist Dr. Lee Rosen (Emmy Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn), an expert in Alpha phenomena, the team investigates cases that point to others with Alpha abilities. As they work against the clock to solve this new brand of crime, they must prevent their own personality differences and disparate backgrounds from interfering with their ultimate mission to catch the enemy.

In addition to Academy Award nominee David Strathairn (Temple Grandin, Good Night, and Good Luck), the ensemble cast stars Malik Yoba (New York Undercover, Why Did I Get Married?), Warren Christie (October Road), Laura Mennell (Watchmen), Ryan Cartwright (Mad Men, Bones) and Azita Ghanizada (Castle).

It's on every Monday and you guys should watch it and be Alphas fans with me :))

The Miracle Exemption

I had a debate with my friend James by Skype this weekend about what really worked in the sci-fi movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.  He pointed out that the miracle examption is done really well and that it brings the story full circle by the end, making it a thoughtful, provoking film.  So that's where I got my blog post for today.

If your story is not grounded in reality, you really only get one miracle exemption (including more may ask too much of the reader but you never know--it is a risk though). This is the thing that the reader is expected to swallow as being completely plausible. Examples: The yellow sun in Superman...it's the source of all his powers. Or the spray aerosol can in Rise of the Planet of the Apes that essentially forces evolution on primates by increasing intelligence within the brain. 

There are rules to the miracle exemption. One of them is that you need to adhere to the miracle exemption completely. Your story needs to follow it and never deviate from it. That is one of the keys to the science-fiction and fantasy in stories that I've read and liked.  And seeing that I've read quite a few stories, my opinion may be worth noting. 

The second is that if you want your story to come full circle, it needs to come back to the miracle exemption and make it crucial to the story.  In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the aerosol spray ends up dooming the entire human race. So not only is it just a device to make apes smarter...it is the mortar upon which the entire franchise is based.  In a word...brilliant.

What is the miracle exemption for J.K. Rowling? You need a wand to do magic. Does she ever deviate from that? Nope.  Does it come back around to this? Yep in that wand that Voldy wanted to use so badly.

What happens when Superman doesn't get sun for a long time? His powers weaken. Does it come back to this? All the time in movies as he goes to absorb sunlight to do extra-powerful and strenuous stuff.

So if your story has a miracle exemption within it, stay true to it.  My sci-fi series has one miracle exemption and I stay true to it and revisit it often.  No it's not faster than light drive. My sci-fi series takes place entirely on earth.  However, FTL-drive is one commonly used miracle exemption that makes space opera work.  Another is instant communication across great distances. You have to have this in order to have a story work.

Do you use a miracle exemption in your story and how important is it?  Have a great Monday (I should be exempt from Mondays).

Jim Carrey Is The Next Internet Meme

So in the celebrity-addled culture worship of the United States, the latest casualty appears to be Jim Carrey.  Does this kind of make me sad? A little bit. I admit that I enjoyed Jim Carrey's rise as funnyman Fire Marshall Bill during "In Living Color" which had me rolling on the floor laughing my ass off more than once.  I liked the original Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and I also liked Liar, Liar and Me, Myself, and Irene.  Every other movie though that he's made since then, has been complete and utter crap.  Without exception, Mr. Popper's Penguins is the latest in a string of duds in a career that might as well be over.

Jenny McCarthy

But who cares, right?  I mean the guy is a mega-millionaire. I would have thought he was happy, especially with Jenny McCarthy as his girlfriend, right?  Well she left him...and I guess he's in an epic mid-life crisis.

Why does the mid-life crisis even exist for men? Well I think it has a lot to do with men having egos that are too big for the super-dome and they simply have these egos because, well, they have testosterone (Munk is the lone exception to this).  My co-worker put it especially poignant when we walked to 7-Eleven to get our morning coffee and to share half of an apple fritter from Crispy Creme (YES I KNOW I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO EAT THEM BUT THEY ARE DELICIOUS! F/U CRISPY CREME /shakes fist at the sky). Anyway, my co-worker said, "The severity of the mid-life crisis depends on the vanity of the man."  I believe this.  If you are really vain...oh boy is fifty (or age for that matter) gonna hit you like a ton of bricks.

Emma Stone

So here's the YouTube video of Carrey destroying his career.  He says it's a joke.  Well the joke is on him.  It's a fifty-year-old washed-up actor and comedian with a saggy body getting a hard-on for a voluptuous 22-year-old Emma Stone.  Jim Carrey...welcome to the next huge internet meme as you are made fun of by EVERYONE in the world.

Pretty creepy, right?

How would you feel if you were a 22-year-old girl and a 50-year-old man made a YouTube for you like this?  He should have read my review of American Gods and realized, yes you are rich. No, this does not make you an American God.  I doubt he reads anyway.  Stupid is as stupid does.

I Am So Awkward

Giving your crush that sexy look...

Expectation:

Reality:

Walking through a nightclub...

Expectation:

Reality:

Dancing...

Expectation:

Reality:

Yeah, I totally write fiction.  Now you know why :)  /hugs

Cover Art

When I visited fellow blogger Andrew Leon over at StrangePegs yesterday, I had absolutely no idea that I was going to be treated to some fantastic art.  To clarify, he has an amazing looking cover for a manuscript he intends to publish that is not done by a professional artist (an artist who is known in the business for doing such things and charges who knows how much for it).  The author/artist who did Andrew's cover is Rusty Webb of The Blutonian Death Egg blog.

Just as a disclaimer, I want to say that I'm thinking Rusty's rates are pretty darn affordable and I suspect it has something to do with him being an ultra-nice guy.

Anyway...this got me to thinking about cover art and how important it is to have stuff on your cover that grabs the eye.   Let's take a look at a bunch of covers here:

First up is the cover for Andrew's work that is coming out.  

Okay...my gut reaction... Holy crap... I can't believe that this is a cover not put out by a Publishing House.

Here are the things that make my eyes spin:

1) The letters on the title are incredible. They are scary and draw my eye so effectively in that yellowish paint that I have to know what this story is about.

2) The ominous dark clouds behind the letters.  First it sets off the title beautifully. Second it scares the bejeezus out of me which I think is the reaction that one wants with this type of book.

3) The house looks lonely, forlorn, rundown, and well haunted.  And that makes it look terrifying. I'm thinking that this scene captures the exact essence of Halloween night. Wow.

Okay... Now I'm going to look at the cover for Rusty's own novella and comment about what I think of it.

First off...I've never been a fan of yellow but I think it works here.  I'm kind of in Michael Whelan's camp when it comes to the color yellow (he doesn't like it as a dominant color and neither do I).  However, yellow is loud...it screams... and that's exactly what I think is needed here and Rusty honed in upon it exactly.  Did I notice Rusty's brilliance when he debuted this cover? I thought it was pretty darn good, but not stunning like the one he did for Andrew.  So yeah, Andrew's cover is better in my opinion and is what prompted me to do this post.

Okay, next I'm going to look at a cover Patrick Dilloway designed on his blog for one of his self-published books.  Patrick is a hugely talented writer.  I read Where You Belong and gave it five stars.  But is he an artist? Hell no.  Take a looksee for yourself.

Patrick designed this cover for an upcoming project and it was one of two that we could kind of help him choose between on his blog.  Honestly though, a choice between this and the other is kind of like a choice between stale bread and a week-old biscuit. 

This is one of the reasons why I wanted a publisher. I had/have no talent to design a cover were I to self-publish.  Additionally, I don't really have a budget for it and I'm just going to say that this cover is kind of ugly.  I mean it's just a woman with a mask on looking down at her boobs and then the title sandwiched between her cleavage.  My thoughts when I saw this were, "If I self-publish, my cover will look like this and that just sucks."

Based exclusively off of this cover, I wouldn't buy this book. I know they say, "Don't judge a book by its cover," and I try not to, but yeah...it's hard to do.  I hope that Patrick goes with another cover or get's Rusty to do one (I strongly urge him to speak with Rusty).

Here's the cover for Where You Belong.  Same thing is going on here.  The book has so many awesome characters, so many cool scenes, locations from Arizona to New York, to Las Vegas to the frickin' Grand Canyon.  And the two men and one woman that are spoken of prominently in this book are absolutely drop-dead gorgeous.  So what kind of cover do we get?  Boring.

Yes, that's a coat hanger and a window and some sunlight and some faded curtains.  O.o

I don't really know what I'm supposed to feel when I look at this cover.  Maybe that Where You Belong deserves a better cover treatment than this.  Again, I urge Mutt to speak with Rusty Webb about this...like today.

Maybe he could qualify for a blog buddy discount or something.

Next up is Cindy Borgne the sci-fi authoress that brought us Vallar.  I loved Vallar...it's a damned good read (she's winning awards for it so I'm not the only one that thinks so) and her cover art is way better than Patrick's but not as good as Rusty's. 

I like this, but as I study it, the look is really computer generated.  I guess that's the way people do things these days.  However, this is way better than her first cover art. I don't want to offend her original cover artist but the original was just some red mountains, a stealth bomber, and a boy's ghostly face.  None of the elements really worked for me but I quickly moved past that and just read the book.  This at left...very eye catching and I like it.  But again...not as good as one done by Rusty Webb.

I love cover art. I possess two books by Michael Whelan that feature his incredible cover art and I've read the pages over and over to listen to his wisdom.  He, in my opinion, is the greatest cover artist to have ever lived and he's been lauded with Hugos galore, etc.  His paintings are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and when he passes, which unfortunately could happen any day, the originals will be worth millions of dollars and I will probably weep.

Michael Whelan has many things to say about cover art...he doesn't like the digital age, but most importantly, he stresses the need for the cover art to reflect the soul of the writer and he uses symbolism in all of his paintings.  I'm going to put some covers here so you can see what I'm talking about.

At left is the artist himself painting a picture of his daughter.  He does everything with paints...from watercolor, to acrylics, to oils.  Mostly though, he works in acrylic.  What a master of his craft.  Sigh.

I had a dream once when I was much younger that I wanted to meet Mr. Whelan and have him do a cover for a book I wrote. I know that will never happen.

The shape of Arkady's legs is meant to echo the fallen towers of Isaac Asimov's book.

He went with the ruins of a flying city to go against the grain of the flying city being so common in science-fiction.

Two books, The Snow Queen, and the Summer Queen.  Each symbol in the hats relates to something that happens in the book.  There is nothing present in the pictures that is not essential or at least covered in some part in the novel.  Pretty cool huh?

Anyway, this ends my post on cover art.  I hope you enjoyed it.

Draw Fast Cars Quickly | Racing Cars

   

I have always been fascinated by fast car sketches and had always told myself that if I wanted to know how to draw fast cars then I would have to learn, but I knew it would be a challenge for me as I was fully aware that I could not draw. Well that was until I discovered a great resource that taught me how to draw fast cars in a simple step by step guide.
The hang up I had instilled in my head was that I would see the completed sketch in all its detail and not realize that the drawing started as a few squares and shapes and was built up over time. I learnt that breaking the drawing down into smaller more manageable chunks enabled me to see and control what I was doing far easier than going straight for the detail.
I Discover how to draw fast cars using these 5 simple Steps.....
Step 1: Draw an Out line of the Car.

Study the subject carefully and look at all the shapes that make up the car and where the lines meet. And then on a blank sheet using very soft strokes, draw and outline of the different shapes, joining them together to make an overall outline of the car, but remember go very gently, going over the lines several times. Using a soft pencil is best.
Step 2. Now draw the Structure.

You can now start to draw in some of the inside structural lines too. Fill in the major inside structural lines first before you move on to the minor ones too. Concentrate on the overall shape of the car and let your pencil follow the curves of the lines. Do not attempt to fill in any color or detail until you have the overall shape correct.

Step 3. Color or Black and White?
This is the fun part in how to draw fast cars where you get to fill in the shapes that you have created with either color, black and white or a combination of the two.

Study the car with care to see how the light creates shapes and shadows. You will see that a solid color can be a lighter shade depending on the light reflection. Also see how intense light appears, as white shapes.
Step 4. Blending the Lines

If you study any car drawing you will notice that no lines are sharp or defined. They are in fact blurred to create subtle graduations that make the drawing flow and appear more realistic. Using your index finger gently go over your lines to smudge them following the shape of the car.
Step 5. Apply some Shadow

The final step in how to draw fast cars is to add the shadow. Look at the car and see how the light has made a shadow. Look at the shape in makes and also look at the colour of the shadow as it will be made up of darker and lighter shades of grey.

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