Tag: motor & transport

Even convertibles are many providers at affordable prices. For example, the mini convertible with DriveNow, the BMW car-sharing provider. “The reason: we want to introduce new customers to the brand.” Each booking is also a kind of test ride. Small quirks but sharing also has its corners and edges: Anders than in the classic rental cars usually fixed stations or in city park districts must be returned. Fork rides usually do not work. Also for rural dwellers, who have no provider in your area, sharing is not really an alternative. Negative also: The spontaneity of suffers when this vehicle model.

For who wants a runabout for the country trip still spontaneous at the weekend after a long late-riser breakfast book, must find more often, that all cars already on the road are towards the mountains. The fact is: the Germans love sharing. According to the United States, our nation is the most diligent in terms of car parts. Go this mobility concept test? Then take a look in the large CarSharing Atlas 2013 from mobile in Germany. The ranking mobile in Germany e.V., Germany’s young Automobile Club has 24/7 compares the CarSharing companies drive now Flinkster Car2Go, cambio, Stadtmobil, book ‘n’ drive, CiteeCar and Hertz and placed under other questions: how long and how many cities the company exists? Are which and how many vehicles on sale? How old are these average? How many customers have an average share a vehicle? How much is the rent? These will be charged every minute or every hour? There are discounted Park “-, long-term”- or night “fares? All miles are included? Since almost every CarSharing company prepares its own tariff model, we calculated three typical booking models for better comparability. In the first case, we have booked the car for an hour (half an hour driving, half hour parking) during the day and went to 20 kilometers.

Often gets into oblivion, that the vehicle is relatively well loaded mainly to holiday trips – it is advisable therefore, in addition to be 0.2 to 0.3 bar in the tires. The spare wheel, despite the fact that punctures in the average (study by Michelin), occur only once every 75,000 miles but highly annoying is when the spare wheel is not ready for use in the case. Therefore before the departure, check the condition and your spare wheel tyre pressure. Also, make sure that there is equipment for disassembly and Assembly. More info: Prudential Financial . In vehicles, there is no spare wheel in which you should carry at least always a flat tire spray and pre-departure check its expiration date. If you have completed a breakdown insurance (often this is included in the car insurance or separately agreed when purchasing tyres), please remember to write down the contact details of the insurance to the claim as quickly as possible and simple help to get. More points that you should consider are intact, to inspect other essential parts of your car should you also not shy away from, your tires. Many handles are truly no sorcery and can easily be done also by the laity.

Levels: Before departure, make sure that all fluids are optimally filled! Engine oil: Visual inspection with oil dipstick (caution: oil is still expand with heat!) Radiator fluid: Visual inspection of the storage tank (if engine is cold) fluid: Visual inspection of the container. Power steering fluid: Visual inspection on the windshield wiper fluid container: Visual inspection of the container. See generally accurate descriptions of the location of the respective containers the manual of your vehicle. The mirror: You must be clean, set in good condition and on the the experienced skater. Light: Check all lights and indicators on their functioning. Windshield wipers : The wiper rubber must be non-porous and must slip smoothly over the disc. Don’t forget to test the rear windscreen wiper.

Window pane: Ensure that all vehicle Windows especially the windshield are intact. Even hairline cracks and rockfalls already affect the stability of the glass surface and can cause rupture of the disc in the worst case! Tips on driving please, please for your own safety, that during heavy rain, as it occurs more in the summer months, the braking distance of your vehicle extended. Therefore always take sufficient distance to the vehicle ahead and adjust if necessary Their speed on the outer conditions. The maximum speed and load regulations manufacturer’s sequence with pendant bars necessarily go. Promote regular heavy loads at the edge of the permissible load capacity of their trailer so we recommend special reinforced tyres (tyres reinforced) to use the recommended tire pressure is usually 2.5 bar for a conventional tyre and at 3 bar for a reinforced tyres. The transport of heavy loads increasing tyre pressure 0.5 bar consider should be considered (ergo 3 bar for standard or 3.5 bar for reinforced tyres) Although trailers are usually not regularly driven, the tires should be replaced at least every 5 seasons. Because if you are not regularly moved, learn more or less pronounced plastic deformation by the relatively long lifetimes. Source:

DMi telematics for complete documentation of all activities in the business and entertainment service Dortmund, 22.01.2014. The intelligent provision of data and their meaningful use are critical to success in many industries. Just communities, large Autobahnmeisterein and airports depend on the efficient documentation of their services, to meet the traffic duty of public spaces in its entirety. For these purposes, DMI is a practice-oriented approach and a proven IT solution available, which keeps the costs as low as possible for such quality assurance. This works as follows: with the DMI report data collected using a special modem locally, for example, by a stray car in winter. These data are evaluated in real time in the so-called Datenmining process and are available without delay to each computer. In addition to a planned / actual comparison of work processes and the acquisition of relevant data such as consumption, de-icers, dosage and Working width, is possible also the billing with subcontractors. In short, this fully automatic documentation of all sweeping – and winter service operations cost, mean for the users time and also material savings.

Thanks to DMi report, cities, towns, and even airports can afford a not unimportant contribution to the reduction of pollution and CO2 emissions. Also, the issue of data security is always in the focus of the discussion. This Sander Joosten, CEO of DMi explains the following: all original data do not change and are tamper-proof filed at a professional hosting service. The required redundancy is ensured by a second such service, and both are certified by appropriate authorities. Thus, the system in the event of damage can provide evidence for a proper work and protect from liability. The data mining innovators is an internationally operating company, which for more than 15 years in the Netherlands successfully its solutions for the complete documentation in the operating and Entertainment service offers. DMi scored 2013 3 million sales year with headquarters in the Netherlands and the two offices in Dortmund and Munich. Currently, the company has 17 employees.

The emotional side meets the side of reason. The 135-HP Alfa Romeo MiTo Mulitiair comes on an average consumption of 5.6 liters per 100 kilometers. In the course of the general apathy regarding the excessive burning of fuel, also Alfa Romeo also has been thinking, how to consume less and can still laugh behind the wheel. That succeeded once, namely at the common-rail diesel, which first took shape in their minds and loud enthusiasm they have forgotten to protect this technology. Now every any car manufacturer thus reaps fat gains, and that should never happen the Italians. Reinvention of the against if common rail was the invention of the diesel engine, which has freed him from the stuffiness of the sluggish, smoking unit and carried up in the luxury class, then according to the Alfisti Multiair is the reinvention of the petrol engine. And it has to do with the fuel in the cylinder.

The whole thing is a little complicated, so that even the Alfa technician at the presentation of an hour used have to explain the principle. But when it suffice you, the following was stated: Alfa Romeo stands for style, Italian Heissblutigkeit, sportsmanship, reliability, etc., etc. The list could have attributes to continue endlessly. Fundamentally, we have almost without exception always a dynamically excellent automotive before us, which meets in the middle of the heart, so fully in the emotional. So also the MiTo – Alfas answer to the mini and advance response to the Audi A1.

In this competitive environment we are moving. “Digression: modern engine technology Multiair circumvents the dependency of the valve timing of the camshaft and thus the pumping loss”, which is produced by changing the density of air by throttle valve alone. No, Multiair throws this into the old iron and uses an electro-hydraulic system for the intake valves. It play: A solenoid valve, a hydraulic Chamber and a hydraulic brake for controlled closing of the valve.