“Mazda KAAN” Futuristic Electric Car Concept to Compete The E1 Races

Electric fields and textures seen in the nature have given birth to Mazda Kaan designed by 6 innovative designers. This electric car is especially designed to compete the E1 races. In order to reach 250 mph without any harmful emissions, Mazda Kaan uses a sub-level electro conductive polymer that powers the electric cars in a modern world. The design and look of the car is mind blowing. By sitting inside the car, one can feel that victory is for sure. So, let’s see how far this Mazda is going to take its future victory.

The MAZDA KAAN is an electric race car designed to compete in the E1 races, the pinnacle of international motorsports in terms of technology and popularity. In 2025, California freeways have been resurfaced with a sub-level electro-conductive polymer that powers the electric cars of the modern world. MAZDA’s patented electronic tire system uses this technology to power the KAAN to reach 250 mph with no harmful emissions!

The vehicles are piloted by individual drivers but teams are made up of thirty cars, all on the track together. Using strategies similar to those in cycling peletons, the tighter the group sticks together, the more aerodynamic and powerful it becomes.

Inspiration for the KAAN comes from electric fields and textures seen in nature, particularly those in a lightning bolt. The car is uniquely designed around its powerful electric wheels while the cockpit acts as a capsule to safely house the driver, allowing for tighter peloton formations and a team victory.

Self-Rechargeable Folding Bike BiCX Makes Riding Fun

BiCX is a folding e-bike concept that provides a new approach of commuting by self-recharging its lithium-ion-polymer battery. The battery can’t be recharged by regular electric outlets, rather it has been designed to recharge through human power such as down-hill free-riding or pedaling. The bike features two riding modes, the Cruise Mode and the Recharge Mode, along with a Booster Button. When the rider is pedaling the bike in Cruise mode, the e-motor will start assisting the rider for pedaling to ensure convenient riding. Recharge mode is the usual riding option where the battery gets charged through pedaling. The Booster button on the left thumb gives a quick acceleration to the bike and functions only if the battery has at least 15% charge.

Why Buhari, Govs, NASS Members Patronize Mercedes-Benz Cars

It's no news that the 3 most powerful people according to the Nigerian constitution all use Mercedes-Benz as their official car, the president, vice president and the Senate president all use Mercedes Benz, a background check into some of the state governors garages too, we can reliably write at least 70-80% of these governors have a Mercedes Benz car in their fleet. There have been an outcry from Nigerians and the social media as to why politicians prefer a German brand as to a Nigerian brand in as much as we have a local firm here which makes vehicles as well. We did an investigation in these outcries, and we found the following reasons why the Federal Government, National Assembly, and State Govs. will still continue patronizing Mercedes-Benz brand.

1. They are aggressive marketers
It's no news that the brand has been around for quite some time, a quick glance at their Wikipedia page shows that it was founded in 1926, so technically, we are looking at a 91-year-old brand, despite that, they seem not to take to chance, you will always see any of their representatives in government house, Aso Rock or they have a clique with some of the staffs there. Likewise, on the social media, MB is among the most active auto brand on Twitter, IG, and the rest, when you make an inquiry, be rest assured that with 48-hours your inquiry will be treated, they are always advertising and showcasing their new range of products and services.

2. Safety Certified
Life is precious, and life can't be on autopilot once its gone. The first thing on the mind of any politician is how am I? Mercedes-Benz seems to be a brand for such folks, virtually all their vehicles have safety certifications, for example, the armored 550 4Matic car has a ballistic certification and many others.

3. Integrity and a brand to protect
Have you ever asked, what will make a president of a nation to patronize a car outside his country? That has to do with loyalty, selflessness, and integrity. Having been in the game for 91-years, they have learned the modulus Operandi in dealing with government officials and therefore vouch for their brand if anything goes wrong.

4. Luxury and comfort
Imagine been in a car that defines luxury at its finest. We reviewed a car recently, it was configured that when it goes into a pit or potholes, the passenger does no feel it as it automatically adjusts itself, that's what MB cars are known for, with the addition of Maybach into the league, life just get better. What every man wants is to have a value for his money.

5. Their service centers and parts are available
Nothing makes a car more useless when you can't find the service area or its part anywhere. At least there are 2 service centers of MB in every state of the federation which makes it accessible and easy to get a snap.

6. Mercedes-Benz Innovation: Timelessly Tasteful and Efficient
What begins as a breakthrough becomes the standard for every car on the road. Enjoyment is paramount along the ever more exciting road map to the future and a never-ending roster of new achievements.

7. They are known to be strong and rugged for Nigeria roads
It has been proven that bad roads make even the most expensive car in the world to wear out within the shortest period of time. Have you heard of the world German-Machine? MB are proven to be strong and withstand all manner of bad roads no wonder our politicians use it as their official cars.

Any car that will displace Mercedes Benz must be ready to do extra more.

Lagos Gov., Akinwunmi Ambode Presents Four New Mobile CCTV To The Police

It's often said that Lagos is a big brother, when Lagos sneezes, the whole country catch the fever. The Lagos state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode last week handed over four (4) mobile CCTV to the state police (RRS). This will be used to track any accident, crime or other monitoring for the Nigerian Police. The truck is fully stock with real-time device and a standby generator.

LASEMA Rescues Accident Victims on 3rd Mainland Bridge, Lagos

For the timely intervention of the Lagos State Emergency Response Unit, only God knows what would have happened to the people in the bus. The LRU crew were on time as they helped to evacuated passengers in a commercial bus that got involved in an accident with a private car on the busy bridge. See more pictures below...

Chinese automaker, NIO EVE unveils self-driving electric concept car

Chinese-automaker NIO’s ‘EVE’ concept car showcases the future of autonomous driving. From daily commuting to road trips, from school runs to nights out, ‘EVE’ continuously learns about its occupants and their preferences. At the heart of ‘EVE’ is ‘nomi’, an artificial intelligence engine with an intuitive human interface, providing verbal and visual connections both inside the vehicle and with the outside world. ‘nomi’ uses the vehicle’s active glass to provide an augmented vision for people while providing new kinds of entertainment.

NIO forgoes conventional A and B pillars of ‘EVE’s’ design and uses optimized door cuts, the comfortable and inviting interior is accessed through a wide forward-sliding door. The fixed seats are belted and positioned to deliver flexibility with an enhanced feeling of openness. in the primary seating area, a discrete folding table creates work or play space, while a luxurious seat that reclines and allows for relaxation, or even sleep. The two front seats, accessed from the main interior, enjoy an enhanced panoramic view, with digital displays provided on the active glass when needed to support non-autonomous driving. ‘EVE’ is designed from the inside out for autonomy.

Admasree Warrior, NIO’s US CEO, comments, ‘we unveiled our vision for the car of the future, focused on delivering unmatched user experience through leading edge, software defined hardware.’ he continues, ‘in 2015, commuters in the US spent over 8 billion hours in their cars commuting. NIO’s autonomous electric cars will make your journey safe, productive and enjoyable. Our cars will be your companion and will know your needs, they will be a welcoming living space that moves you. We look forward to producing the first of the next generation of cars for the US consumer. We know you will be delighted by NIO.’

Chinese Tech Giant Tencent Buys $1.7 Billion Worth Of Tesla Shares

Chinese technology company Tencent has purchased a five per cent share in Tesla in a deal worth approximately $1.7 billion.

A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission confirms that the second highest valued tech firm in Asia purchased 8,167,433 shares in the Silicon Valley electric startup. The move sent Tesla's share price up by three per cent in pre-market trading and makes Tencent one of Tesla's largest shareholders, Tech Crunch reports.

This isn't Tencent's first investment in the automotive industry. Most notably, it has a stake in Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-hailing service that serves almost 400 million users across 400 cities.

What's more, the tech firm is also working on artificial intelligence and recently hired a senior machine learning researcher that previously worked for Baidu.

Overheating: Causes and Some Likely Solutions

It’s the worst feeling you can have as a driver: the indisputable fact that something is wrong. Steam spews from under the hood while warning bells chime and lights flash from your dashboard. Your engine is too hot, and you’ve got to pull over to the nearest parking lot or onto the road shoulder to let the engine cool down. There’s a knot in your stomach – this could be expensive.

Heat is an engine’s enemy. The damage caused by overheating can be catastrophic and require a complete overhaul or replacement if the problem is not caught in time. There are many conditions that can cause overheating, with some being straightforward repairs and others requiring long hours of work and high parts costs.

What is overheating?

An engine operates efficiently at a certain temperature. That temperature, even though it is too hot to touch by hand, is significantly cooler than it would be without a cooling system. Overheating is when the temperature of the engine climbs to a point where mechanical damage can occur. Usually, a sustained temperature of over 240 degrees Fahrenheit is enough to cause concern. Steam coming from the engine area, a temperature gauge spiking to the red zone, and engine warning lights – often shaped like a thermometer – are signs your vehicle may be overheating.

Does my car have a cooling system?

No matter how big or small it is, every engine has a cooling system. Very early on in vehicle development, car engines were air-cooled. Essentially, exposure to the air passing over it dissipated the heat from the engine. As engines became more sophisticated and powerful, instances of overheating became more frequent, and a liquid-based cooling system was developed in response.

Liquid cooling systems are used almost exclusively in today’s automotive design and development. Your modern vehicle is equipped with a cooling system that circulates coolant (also known as antifreeze) throughout the engine and through a radiator to dissipate the heat.

How does it work?

• There are many parts to a cooling system in an engine. There is a water pump, a thermostat, a heater core, a radiator, coolant hoses, and the engine itself. Here’s how it works:

• The water pump has an impeller that circulates the coolant. The impeller looks like a fan or windmill and is turned by the serpentine belt, or timing belt or chain.

• The coolant flows through the engine’s coolant jacket, which is a labyrinth of channels through the engine block. Heat is absorbed by the coolant and carried out of the engine and into the heater core.

• The heater core is a small radiator inside your vehicle to warm up the interior. A valve controls how much hot coolant passes through the heater core to warm the air temperature inside. The coolant then passes through a hose toward the radiator.

• The radiator is essentially a long tube that is bent into shorter coils. The air passing through the coils disperses the heat from the coolant inside, reducing the temperature of the coolant. After passing through the radiator, a hose carries the cooled fluid back to the water pump, and the cycle starts over.

Why engine overheats

There are several causes of overheating. Almost all stem from a lack of circulation but can be caused in different ways.

• Cooling system leaks - A leak in the cooling system doesn’t directly cause the engine to overheat. The direct cause is air entering the cooling system. When a leak is present, the coolant level drops and the air is sucked in and circulated. Air is obviously lighter than coolant, and once it rises to the top of the cooling system, it causes what is known as an airlock. An airlock is a large bubble that can’t be pushed through the cooling system by the coolant flow. That means that cooling system effectively stops circulating and the coolant remaining inside the engine becomes superheated.
  
• Blockage - A blockage in the cooling system is another indirect cause, as overheating is actually due to a lack of coolant circulation inside the engine. When the cooling system is blocked, and the coolant can’t circulate to the radiator to disperse heat, the engine overheats. A few common of obstructions are:

• A thermostat that doesn’t open when it should.
• A mineral deposit was blocking the radiator.
• A foreign object inside the cooling system.
• Failed water pump - A water pump failure is one of the more regular causes for overheating. 

The water pump is the most active component in the cooling system and is responsible for maintaining coolant circulation. Over time, the bearing or impeller inside the water pump can wear or break, and the impeller will no longer turn. When this occurs, it’s usually a short time until the engine overheats.

The coolant isn’t concentrated enough - This condition is primarily a concern in cold weather climates where temperatures drop below freezing. The coolant can gel up inside the engine or radiator and cause a blockage. Even in freezing cold, an engine will readily overheat if the antifreeze has gelled and cannot circulate. It can cause internal damage in components that will require attention, like a possible radiator repair.

A lesser known system that assists in cooling the engine is the engine oil itself. It plays a large part in engine cooling and also in preventing excessive temperatures from building up. The engine oil lubricates internal engine parts to prevent friction, which is the main cause of heat inside an engine.

Many manufacturers have incorporated an engine oil cooler into their vehicles which operate as a radiator. The hot oil is circulated to the oil cooler where heat dissipates before it returns to the engine. Up to forty percent of the engine’s cooling is performed by the engine oil.

Common repairs required to correct overheating

• Water pump replacement
• Radiator repair or replacement
• Antifreeze flush
• Thermostat replacement
• Engine oil top-up or change
• Coolant hose replacement
• How to prevent overheating

There are several ways to combat overheating in your vehicle.

• Have the cooling system flushed at the manufacturer’s recommended interval or when it is dirty.
• Have a technician repair coolant leaks as soon as they appear.
• Get your engine oil changed regularly.
• Monitor the temperature gauge on your dash. If the needle goes into the red or an “engine hot” warning light comes on, pull over and turn your vehicle off to prevent damage.

Don't take chances with your vehicle if it starts to overheat. If your car overheats even once, something is wrong and needs to be fixed. Contact a certified mobile technician to inspect what's causing it to overheat.

How Carburetor Works Within the Fuel System

The carburetor is responsible for mixing gasoline and air together in just the right amounts and getting that mixture into the cylinders. Though they are not found in new cars, carburetors have delivered fuel into the engines of every vehicle from legendary race cars to top-end luxury cars. They were used in NASCAR up until 2012 and many classic car enthusiasts use carbureted vehicles every single day. With that many die-hard enthusiasts, carburetors must offer something special to those who love cars.

How does a carburetor work?

A carburetor relies on the vacuum created by the engine to draw air and fuel into the cylinders. This system was used for so long because of the simplicity behind it. The throttle can open and close, allowing either more or less air to enter the engine. This air moves through a narrow opening called a venturi. The vacuum is a result of the airflow required to keep the engine running.

To get an idea of how a venturi works, picture a river flowing normally. This river is moving at a steady pace and the depth is very consistent for the entire length. If there is a narrow section in this river, the water will have to speed up for the same volume to get through at the same depth. Once the river returns to the original width after the bottleneck, the water will still try to retain that same velocity. This makes the higher-velocity water on the far side of the bottleneck pull on the water approaching the bottleneck, creating a vacuum.

Thanks to the venturi, there is enough of a vacuum inside of a carburetor for the air passing through it to steadily draw gas from the jet. Found inside of the venturi, the jet is an opening where fuel from the float chamber can mix with air before entering the cylinders. The float chamber holds a small amount of fuel, like a reservoir, and allows fuel to easily flow to the jet as it is needed. As the throttle opens, more air is drawn into the engine, bringing with it more fuel, which makes the engine create more power.

The main issue with this design is the fact that the throttle has to be open for the engine to get fuel. The throttle is closed at idle, so an idle jet allows a small amount of fuel to enter the cylinders to keep the engine from stalling. Other small issues include excess fuel vapor escaping the float chamber(s).
In the fuel system

Carburetors have been made in a number of shapes and sizes over the years. Small motors may just use a single carburetor with a single jet to get fuel into the engine, while larger motors can use as many as twelve jets to stay in motion. The tube containing the venturi and jet is called a barrel, though this term is usually only used when referring to multi-barrel carburetors.

Multi-barrel carburetors were a big selling point for cars in the past, with options like 4 or 6-barrel configurations. More barrels meant more air and fuel could enter the cylinders. Some engines even used multiple carburetors.

Sports cars often came from the factory with one carburetor per cylinder, much to the dismay of their mechanics. These would all have to be individually tuned, and the temperamental (usually Italian) power plants were particularly sensitive to any imperfections in tuning. They also had a tendency to need tuning fairly often. This is a big reason why fuel injection was popularized with sports cars first.

Where have all the carburetors gone?

Since the 1980s, manufacturers have been phasing out carburetors in favor of fuel injection. Both do the same job, but complex modern engines simply evolved past carburetors and the much more precise (and programmable) fuel injection has taken over. There are a few reasons for this:

• Fuel injection can deliver fuel directly into the cylinder, though sometimes a throttle body is used to let one or two injectors deliver fuel to multiple cylinders.

• Idling is tricky with a carburetor, but it is very simple for fuel injectors. This is because a fuel injection system can just add a small amount of fuel into an engine to keep it going, but a carburetor has the throttle closed at idle. An idle jet is required to keep a carbureted engine from stalling with the throttle closed.

• Fuel injection is more precise and wastes less fuel. There is less gas vapor with fuel injection because of this as well, so there is less chance of fire.

Despite being outdated, carburetors are a big part of automotive history and operate in a purely mechanical and clever way. By working with carbureted engines, enthusiasts can get hands-on knowledge of how air and fuel is brought into an engine to be ignited and keep everything in motion.

2018 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Gets a Facelift

Mercedes-Benz’s genre-defining S-Class is getting a mid-cycle facelift and here’s our first look at an undisguised example caught a couple weeks ahead of a rumored double world premiere in April during the New York and Shanghai Auto Shows.

Theses images, which come courtesy of Saudishift, give us an unhindered view of the subtly redesigned 2018 S-Class sedan’s front and rear ends, plus the updated interior.

Beginning with the outside, the main changes for the 2018 model are the redesigned bumpers, the rear with new exhaust finishers and trims, some minor adjustments to the tail light schemes, and revamped ‘Multibeam’ headlamps with three-layered LED strips. The latter will allow drivers to permanently use high beams without dazzling other motorists.

On the inside, the refined S-Class sedan gets the same three-spoke steering wheel as the Coupe instead of the current car’s two-spoke design. It also appears that the extended digital instrument and infotainment panel has slightly grown in size as Mercedes removed the frame separating the two displays, while it seems that some minor changes were made to the lower center console as well. We’ve also heard that Benz will add gesture controls for the infotainment system along with a tweaked touchpad.

In one of the pictures we see the ‘S560’ moniker, with the (numerical) designation last used back in the iconic S-Class W126 from the end of the 1970s to the early 1990s. As reported by the Saudi website, it will replace the S550 featuring Mercedes’ latest 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8, that’s not only more powerful than the current 449hp 4.7-liter bi-turbo V8 at 476hp, but also 12 percent more fuel efficient.

The updated S-Class will get Mercedes’ new M 256 straight-six gasoline engine with an electric compressor and Integrated Starter-Alternator that promises to offer V8 performance with six-cylinder fuel efficiency.

Last, but certainly not least, the 2018 S-Class will introduce an array of new driver assistance systems with advanced autonomous capabilities, thanks to new software and hardware. These will range from completely autonomously parking the S-Class to offering autonomous steering on the highway for brief periods.

Sales of the revamped S-Class will begin worldwide in the third quarter of the year, with the more luxurious Maybach, along with the Coupe and Convertible versions to follow with a similar raft of upgrades.