As seen in last month's sport compact car:

http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/future/volta.html

Thoughts and opinions? I think it looks sweet, and the 0-60 is simply blistering. Not to mention it will go ~450 miles on less than 14 gallons of gas!

well with 408 HP, i really hope it would be quick...I want one..

wow. I like it.

http://www.toyota.com/images/vehicles/future/volta/photo2.jpg
http://www.toyota.com/images/vehicles/future/volta/photo6.jpg

that is sweet

I hope they actualy take it into production... not that I could afford to buy one, but it would be a great symbol for Toyota – Their pace car for the entire company!

;)
...Or maybe Toyota could make a 2+2 slightly less powerful version and call it a Celica?

:D

looks cool!

That car looks hot. Probably weighs 5000 pounds and handles like a truck though.

Originally posted by Z00M RX8
That car looks hot. Probably weighs 5000 pounds and handles like a truck though.

try about 2800 and i bet it will handle better than your 8 :p.

Originally posted by jonnyb
try about 2800 and i bet it will handle better than your 8 :p.

Now if only it looked as good as the '8 and you could get one for $30k.

They won't produce it.

Even if they don't, it just shows that you can still have a fast and light hybrid car .

yeah definetly,

power and quickness is what's really holding hybrids back. If they could make this or even a less powerful model (along with more pratical design) I think it would really do well. I would love to get 30+ mpg in a car with 400+ hp, hell I'd settle for 250 hp :)

agreed

Originally posted by glxyjones
yeah definetly,

power and quickness is what's really holding hybrids back. If they could make this or even a less powerful model (along with more pratical design) I think it would really do well. I would love to get 30+ mpg in a car with 400+ hp, hell I'd settle for 250 hp :)


shi..... I'll go with that idea ANYDAY ANYtime....

hard to believe that is a Toyota. I like it.

hahaah yah i know i said id never drive a toyato but that is a sexy car

Originally posted by draco067
Even if they don't, it just shows that you can still have a fast and light hybrid car .

Accourding to the curent Car & Driver, July issue on page 34 look for the story:
Meet MR Hybrid – Toyota will soon produce a hybrid sports car. Hinted at by the CS&S concept shown in Frankfurt last fall, the production car will be a compact 2-door successor to the MR-2 Spyder ... Expect at least 300 horsepower and all-wheel drive ... hits the road before the end of the decade.

And there's a story just before the Toyota hybrid about ...

Mazda: A new member of the rotary club. At the Tokyo show in 2005, Mazda plans to unvail the turbo RX-8! ... it's going to be a newly developed electrically assisted turbocharger that will be able to meet the increasingly strigent emmissions regulations ...

:D

Honda had a very similar concept car a couple of years ago. I think it was called the Dual Note or something like that. I wonder how feasable for production a high-performance hybrid actually is.

Wasn't there a big expose recently where they claimed that current hybrid cars aren't as fuel efficient as they thought?

I remember Honda's Dual Note. Pretty sweet. I'm glad these guys are going in the right direction when it comes to combing power, beauty, and environmental friendliness. I am not too sure about the name, which is after the guy who founded electric potential (you can find that information in Chapter 1 of any EE book), but the concept is refreshing in a world run by leviathan SUVs and butt-ugly commuter cars.

The name is Allessandro Volta, after the Italian scientist. I should mention that Italdesign did the styling . . .

Peace
policy

Originally posted by policyvote
The name is Allessandro Volta, after the Italian scientist. I should mention that Italdesign did the styling . . .

Peace
policy

IMHO, I'm very glad that Toyota let the Italians design this concept! It is one sweet looking supercar!

:D

I can only hope that the next generation Celica will share some of it's lines ...

;)

I can't wait for the Mazda Laplace Transform to come out :).

Originally posted by shelleys_man_06
I can't wait for the Mazda Laplace Transform to come out :).

OK you got me!

Here I was hoping that you knew some insider info about a new Mazda hybrid car.

Let f(t) be a function defined on tex2html_wrap_inline134 . The Laplace transform of f(t) is a new function defined as

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The domain of tex2html_wrap_inline138 is the set of tex2html_wrap_inline140, such that the improper integral converges.

(1)
We will say that the function f(t) has an exponential order at infinity if, and only if, there exist tex2html_wrap_inline144 and M such that

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(2)
Existence of Laplace transform
Let f(t) be a function piecewise continuous on [0,A] (for every A>0) and have an exponential order at infinity with tex2html_wrap_inline154 . Then, the Laplace transform tex2html_wrap_inline138 is defined for tex2html_wrap_inline158 , that is tex2html_wrap_inline160 . (3)
Uniqueness of Laplace transform
Let f(t), and g(t), be two functions piecewise continuous with an exponential order at infinity. Assume that

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then f(t)=g(t) for tex2html_wrap_inline168 , for every B > 0, except maybe for a finite set of points.

;)

Laplace transforms are used to solve differential equations. As an example, Laplace transforms are used to determine the response of a harmonic oscillator to an input signal.

It's all greek to me!