Friday, March 9, 2007

Mercedes-Benz Bionic Fish Car



When car designers start to work on a new project, they usually begin with sketches coming from their experience or their imagination. But when Mercedes-Benz engineers begin to think about a model for a bionic car, they went to the museum… to look at fish. Look at the photograph of the Australian boxfish, and of the Mercedes-Benz Bionic Fish Car. There are indeed similarities.The Scientist describes why they settled on this particular fish, which lives in coral reefs, has great structural strength but low mass.The Mercedes-Benz bionic car, a concept vehicle based on examples in nature, in which DaimlerChrysler has also transferred the diesel engine technology of the future to a fully functioning and practical car for everyday use.With such a low Cd value, it’s quite normal that this car doesn’t use much gasoline. In fact, this concept car consumes 4.3 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers (or 70 miles per US gallon), making it 20 percent more economical than a comparable standard-production model. Still it has a maximum speed of 190 km/h. Also, the Bionic Fish Car looks kind of like the old Pontiac LeMans, the one built in Korea by Daewoo in the late 1980s, which was evidently modeled after some Korean fish that dies prematurely, and then rusts:)))The Mercedes-Benz bionic car study will have its world premiere at this year’s DaimlerChrysler Innovation Symposium in Washington.

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