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Jeep Avenger e-Hybrid evaluate

The e-Hybrid’s engine seems slightly measly on paper, and with a 0-62mph dash of 10.9sec, it received’t be successful any dash races any time quickly. But it is torquey off the road, bolstered by an E-Boost function that provides 40lb ft of torque for an additional push in acceleration. 

It additionally feels gutsier than the figures recommend within the mid-range. Indeed, Jeep says the e-Hybrid provides 30% sooner acceleration between 30-60mph than the guide petrol Avenger.

This is felt once you’re travelling on sooner B-roads and motorways. However, the gearbox can disappoint, not shifting up or down once you want it to.

Things can sound fairly gruff once you put your foot down too, which is not excellent when the Avenger Electric provides near-silent serenity.

The e-Hybrid can drive for as much as 1km (0.6 miles) on electrical energy alone, which is greater than most delicate hybrids however a good distance wanting a superb full hybrid system like Toyota’s.

Still, it is available in helpful once you’re manoeuvring or driving round city, and it’s right here the place the e-Hybrid excels, providing a refined and quiet driving expertise when taking off from a set of lights or trundling via visitors.

If you’ll use your Avenger Electric primarily on the town, the cheaper e-Hybrid would make an acceptable different.

We’re but to pattern the guide petrol, however this evaluate shall be up to date as quickly as we get our fingers on one. 

Technology

Settings On Your iPad That Are Ruining Your Experience

We’ve all been in a state of affairs the place we discover ourselves in a frantic scramble for pen and paper/ to jot down a fleeting thought, word, or quantity. With Quick Notes on iPad, you possibly can depart this explicit downside prior to now. Quick Notes is a digital notepad that’s effortlessly accessible it doesn’t matter what you are doing in your iPad, providing a great trendy resolution to an age-old downside.

If you are shopping by way of totally different web sites or utilizing varied apps, you shouldn’t have to shut them and open the Notes app individually to put in writing one thing down. Instead, you can use a hidden iPad screen gesture to shortly entry Quick Notes. If you toggle on Swipe Finger from Corner beneath Multitasking & Gestures settings, Quick Notes seems over any app or display in your iPad while you swipe up from the underside proper nook of your display utilizing your finger or Apple Pencil. But that is not all –- Quick Notes is extremely versatile, and you are able to do far more than simply typing out some notes.

You may also use the Markup instrument to sketch one thing, paste Safari URLs and hyperlinks, insert screenshots and pictures, add mentions and tags, and create necessary to-do lists on the go. All of the Quick Notes you make may be discovered within the Notes app beneath the Quick Notes folder. If you have used the Add Link button to insert a hyperlink in a Quick Note, the Quick Note can even present up as a thumbnail while you’re shopping that web site. If you are not offered but, here is the very best half about this function — if you happen to personal one other Apple machine like a Mac or an iPhone, these Quick Notes are routinely synced throughout all of your different gadgets.

Motorsport

Bless Your Ears With The Sound Of Porsche 911 GT3 Rally Cars

Porsche 911s won’t make a lot sense as rally automobiles on paper, however in observe, they’re among the most enjoyable machines to ever depart tarmac. Late-model GT3s are particularly cool to observe and take heed to as they fly down phases by the again roads of Europe. 

The Belgian-Motorsport YouTube channel put collectively a compilation of all of the 997-generation Porsche 911 GT3 rally automobiles it filmed all through the 2023 season, giving us an opportunity to soak in 9 straight minutes of motorsport-inspired flat-six glory. The footage, shot by a number of occasions held in Belgium over the 12 months, reveals the rally-prepped Porsches slide, bounce, and pace by tight turns, slender straightaways, and hay bale chicanes.

Judging by the sound and pace, most of those GT3s have been extensively modified to carry out effectively away from the graceful tarmac Porsche meant. There are particular suspension mods, modest aero adjustments, shorter aspect mirrors, and sequential transmissions rather than the manufacturing unit stick shifts. 

Even with all of these mods, these GT3s seemingly aren’t as fast as correct all-wheel drive rally machines constructed for the game. But they’re undoubtedly extra enjoyable to observe. With how sideways a few of these Porsches are getting, we suspect they’re much more enjoyable to drive, too. 

Motorsport

Ford Mustang Mach 1 Goes Head-to-Head Against Dark Horse In Close Drag Race Battle

On paper, one would assume the Ford Mustang Dark Horse is a straightforward victor on this pony-versus-pony showdown. Packing 500 horsepower and Ford’s quick-shifting 10-speed computerized, it is the present efficiency champion within the Mustang household. Surely it may well outrun a previous-generation Mach 1 with a six-speed handbook, proper?

The Mach 1 debuted in 2020 as way over simply an look package deal. Ford tweaked the 5.0-liter V8 to make 480 horsepower, solely 20 hp away from the Dark Horse. That ranking dropped to 470 in subsequent years, nevertheless it’s nonetheless roughly equal to a brand new GT. We’ve seen simply how shut the seventh-gen Mustang trims are in a drag race, so there’s little cause to doubt this might be a detailed match, too.


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Watch How Many Bags You Can Fit In These 4 Compact SUVs – Kia Seltos, Honda Elevate, Volkswagen Taigun And Toyota Hyryder


On paper, the Honda Elevate has the biggest boot space, but is it the most usable? Find out here

Kia Seltos, Honda Elevate, Toyota Hyryder, Volswagen Taigun: Boot Space Comparison

The Kia Seltos, Honda Elevate, Volkswagen Taigun and the Toyoya Hydyder were with us recently for some tests, and we decided to check how much luggage can be stored in the boot of each of these compact SUVs. We tested all cars side by side to see which one has the most usable boot, and you can watch that here:

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As seen in the reel above, having a bigger boot doesn’t necessarily mean space for more luggage. The design and ergonomics of the boot play a big role in how many bags you can store. The reason these cars were tested together is not only because they are of the same segment, but also because all of them are family SUVs trying to offer different experiences with their variety of powertrain options.

Also See: Volkswagen Taigun Trail Edition vs Hyundai Creta Adventure Edition: Compared In Images

Honda Elevate Boot Space

All 4 SUVs are priced in the same ballpark with prices starting from around Rs 11 lakh.

Ex-showroom Price

Kia Seltos

Honda Elevate

Volkswagen Taigun

Toyota Hyryder

Rs 10.90 lakh to Rs 20.30 lakh

Rs 11 lakh to Rs 16 lakh

Rs 11.62 lakh to Rs 19.76 lakh

Rs 10.86 lakh to Rs 19.99 lakh

The most easily accessible model is the Toyota Hyryder, but only by a small margin. Going for its hybrid variants will cost you at least Rs 16.46 lakh (ex-showroom), Rs 46,000 more than the price of the top-spec Honda Elevate, which is by far the most affordable offering in the segment, but the most expensive model here is the Kia Seltos.

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Technology

This WW2 ‘Earthquake Bomb’ Was Intentionally Designed to Miss Its Target. Here’s Why

In 1941, an engineer named Wallis came up with a unique idea for the Allied forces. He proposed dropping an incredibly heavy bomb near a target, which would then penetrate deep into the ground before detonating. The resulting explosion would create a tremendously powerful shockwave that could severely weaken the foundations of a building, rendering it useless.

The goal was not to directly destroy the target in the traditional sense, but rather to cause what can be described as an “earthquake” effect. This approach was based on the scientific understanding that shockwaves travel faster and more efficiently through solids compared to air. The British Royal Air Force (RAF) approved Wallis’s proposal and allowed him to experiment with creating this unique bomb.

This bomb was known as the Tallboy. It should not be confused with a small can of beer, as it weighed a staggering 12,000 pounds. To put this into perspective, the heaviest bomb available before the Tallboy weighed only 1,000 pounds. Standing at 21 feet tall, Wallis’s creation truly earned its name.

The Tallboy had a diameter of 3 feet 8 inches and had a total weight of 11,855 pounds. The bomb contained 5,200 pounds of Torpex D1, an explosive twice as powerful as TNT. When dropped from an altitude of 20,000 feet, the bomb created a crater that was 80 feet deep and 100 feet across. It had an estimated terminal velocity of around 3,600 feet per second and could penetrate through 16 feet of concrete. Upon impact, the Tallboy would be traveling at approximately 750 miles per hour.

Over 700 Tallboy bombs were dropped during the course of the war, targeting various locations including the German battleship Tirpitz.

Cars

This Innovative Car Cover Can Protect Electric Vehicle (EV) Batteries From Extreme Weather

A team of researchers has developed a remarkable car cover that can regulate temperatures all year round, protecting EV batteries from shifting weather conditions. This groundbreaking technology, described in a research paper published in the journal Cell, is a passive structure that can achieve all-season temperature regulation effectively.

The team prioritized design simplicity and scalability, ensuring that the cloak can be easily manufactured on a large scale without any technical or material sourcing difficulties. Additionally, this innovative cover is fire retardant and can withstand various environments, including thermal, cryogenic, vibration, and corrosive environments.

Known as a phononomic metafabric, the car cover has exhibited excellent fire retardant and thermal stability. To test its capabilities, the team subjected the cloak to a butane torch with a temperature of approximately 1,400 degrees Celsius. While the surface of the cover reached approximately 800 degrees Celsius, it quickly cooled down to 10 degrees Celsius.

Even in extremely cold conditions, with temperatures as low as -196 degrees Celsius, the cloak maintained its stability, solar reflectivity, and emissivity. Given its exceptional resistance, this technology can also be applied to regulate temperatures in buildings, spacecraft, and even future extraterrestrial habitats (as mentioned in this article).

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Honda Elevate vs Hyundai Creta vs Kia Seltos vs Maruti Grand Vitara vs Toyota Hyryder: Specification Comparison


How does the Honda Elevate fare against its biggest rivals on paper? Let’s find out

Honda Elevate vs rivals

The Honda Elevate is the carmaker’s first and much-awaited entry in the compact SUV space. This segment is already overcrowded with models like the Maruti Grand Vitara, Toyota Hyryder, Skoda Kushaq, Volkswagen Taigun, Kia Seltos, Hyundai Creta, and MG Astor.

In this article, we put the Elevate up against some of its direct rivals. Of the lot, the Hyundai Creta has dominated the segment for a long time, its sales recently being challenged by the Grand Vitara; while the Seltos is another high-selling competitor, which was recently facelifted. Since the Hyryder is near-identical to the Grand Vitara, it has also been included in this comparison.

Engine Specifications

Specs

Honda Elevate

Maruti Grand Vitara / Toyota Hyryder

Hyundai Creta

Kia Seltos

Engine

1.5-litre petrol

1.5-litre petrol

1.5-litre petrol-hybrid

1.5-litre petrol

1.5-litre petrol

1.5-litre turbo-petrol

Power

121PS

103PS

116PS

115PS

115PS

160PS

Torque

145Nm

137Nm

141Nm

144Nm

144Nm

253Nm

Transmission

6-speed MT / CVT

5-speed MT / 6-speed AT

e-CVT

6-speed MT / CVT

6-speed MT / CVT

6-speed iMT / 7-speed DCT

Honda Elevate

While all the five SUVs get a 1.5-litre petrol engine, the Maruti Grand Vitara and Hyryder get the choice of a highly frugal petrol-hybrid unit. Those with a knack for mild off-roading can also look at the AWD variant of the Maruti-Toyota duo, although limited to the manual shifter. The Seltos is the only one in this list to get the choice of a turbo-petrol engine, which also makes it the most powerful option.

All of them can be opted with either a manual transmission or an automatic. The Grand Vitara and Hrydyer get an e-CVT with their hybrid powertrain. The Seltos’s turbo-petrol variants get an iMT (manual without clutch pedal) instead of a regular manual stick.

Kia Seltos Engine

The Creta and Kia Seltos are the only ones in this list to also be offered with a diesel powertrain.

Fuel Efficiency

Specs

Honda Elevate

Maruti Grand Vitara / Toyota Hyryder

Hyundai Creta#

Kia Seltos

Engine

1.5-litre petrol MT / CVT

1.5-litre petrol MT / AT

1.5-litre petrol-hybrid

1.5-litre petrol MT / CVT

1.5-litre petrol MT / CVT

1.5-litre turbo-petrol iMT / DCT

Mileage

15.31kmpl / 16.92kmpl

21.1kmpl / 20.58kmpl

27.97kmpl

16.8 kmpl / 16.9kmpl

17 kmpl / 17.7kmpl

17.7kmpl / 17.9kmpl

# – These are claimed figures prior to the update that made cars compliant with the BS6 Phase 2 emission norms.

Toyota Hyryder strong-hybrid powertrain

The Elevate is the least efficient of the lot, even when you look at the Seltos’s turbo-petrol engine in comparison. The most fuel-efficient compact SUV title goes to the Grand Vitara and Toyota Hyryder, with their claimed fuel efficiency of 27.97kmpl. However, it will be interesting to see how the Honda SUV performs in our real-world fuel-efficiency tests where models tend to fall fairly short of their claimed figures.

Also Read: Should The Latest WR-V Be Offered Alongside The Honda Elevate In India?

Dimensions

Dimensions

Elevate

Grand Vitara

Hyryder

Creta

Seltos

Length

4,312mm

4,345mm

4,365mm

4,300mm

4,365mm

Width

1,790mm

1,795mm

1,795mm

1,790mm

1,800mm

Height

1,650mm

1,645mm

1,635mm

1,635mm

1,645mm

Wheelbase

2,650mm

2,600mm

2,600mm

2,610mm

2,610mm

Boot Space

458 litres

373 litres*

373 litres*

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433 litres

*Boot space figures not confirmed with OEM.

Kia Seltos

While the Honda Elevate arrives with a relatively simple design language, it does stand out for its height and also offers the longest wheelbase. Both those elements bode well for cabin space. The Hyryder and Seltos are the longest SUVs in this comparison, followed by the Grand Vitara. In terms of width, the Seltos leads the others by a very small margin.

Honda Elevate boot space

The official boot capacity of Creta, Grand Vitara, and Hyryder have not been revealed, but the Elevate seems to offer the most space here.

Features

Common Features

Elevate

Grand Vitara / Hyryder

Creta

Seltos

17-inch Alloy Wheels

LED Headlamps

Auto AC

Cruise Control

Leatherette Seats

Wireless phone charger

Digital Driver’s Display

10.25-inch Touchscreen system

Wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay

Electric Sunroof

Panoramic Sunroof

9-inch touchscreen system

Wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay

Front Ventilated Seats

Heads Up Display

Premium Sound System By Clarion

10.25-Inch Touchscreen System

Wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay

Panoramic Sunroof

Front Ventilated Seats

Powered Driver’s Seat

Auto Air Purifier

Bose Premium Sound System

Panoramic Sunroof

10.25-Inch Dual Displays For Touchscreen System And Instrument Cluster

Dual-Zone AC

Auto Air Purifier

Front Ventilated Seats

Powered Driver’s Seat

Bose Premium Sound System

Kia Seltos cabin

The Kia Seltos is definitely the most feature-rich compact SUV, adding some segment-first highlights like dual-zone climate control and dual 10.25-inch integrated displays. All the four SUVs offer more creature comforts than the Honda Elevate, which misses out on front ventilated seats, a panoramic sunroof, and a premium sound system.

Safety Features

Honda Elevate ADAS

Common Features

Elevate

Grand Vitara / Hyryder

Creta

Seltos

ESC

Hill Hold Assist

Rear Parking Camera

ISOFIX Child Seat Mounts

ABS with EBD

ADAS

Up To Six Airbags

Lane Watch Camera

Up to Six Airbags

360-degree Camera

Tyre Pressure Monitoring System

Hill Descent Control (AWD)

Six Airbags (Standard)

Tyre Pressure Monitoring System

Automatic Headlamps

ADAS

Six Airbags (Standard)

Tyre Pressure Monitoring System

Front Parking Sensors

360-degree Camera

Rain-Sensing Wipers

All the SUVs are packed with safety features to the brim. Six airbags are standard just on the Creta and Seltos for now. The radar-based safety technology, ADAS, is limited to the Elevate and Seltos. In comparison to its rivals, the Honda misses out on the tyre pressure monitoring system, a 360-degree camera, front parking sensors, and rain-sensing wipers.

Related: Could Honda Elevate Be The Next 5-Star Safety Rated SUV In India?

Price Range

Honda Elevate

Maruti Grand Vitara

Toyota Hyryder

Hyundai Creta

Kia Seltos

Rs 12 lakh to Rs 17 lakh (Expected)

Rs 10.70 lakh to Rs 19.95 lakh

Rs 10.86 lakh to Rs 19.99 lakh

Rs 10.87 lakh to Rs 19.20 lakh

Rs 10.90 lakh to Rs 20 lakh

We expect the Elevate to be competitively priced against its core rivals, and the lack of impressive features should make it more affordable than the others at the top-spec variants.

(All prices ex-showroom)

The prices for the Honda Elevate will be out in early September, bookings are open and production is underway.

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ELI TOMAC SIGNS WITH STAR RACING YAMAHA FOR 2024

Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing’s Eli Tomac signs a contract for another year of racing.

MARIETTA, Ga. – July 26, 2023 – Monster Energy Yamaha Racing is pleased to announce that Eli Tomac will be back in 2024. During the Yamaha dealer meeting in Colorado, the 2022 Monster Energy AMA Supercross 450SX and Pro Motocross 450MX Champion revealed that he will continue to ride for the team for the third consecutive season.

Tomac has had a successful partnership with the Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing team and the YZ450F. In 2022, he kicked off the year with two titles and a victory at the Motocross of Nations. He has accumulated an impressive number of wins, with 14 in supercross and 14 in outdoor motocross. This year, Tomac achieved another milestone when he claimed his 51st premier-class victory at the Glendale Triple Crown, putting him in second place on the all-time win list for supercross. He also made history by securing his seventh Daytona Supercross victory, matching NASCAR legend Richard Petty’s record. Unfortunately, Tomac suffered an Achilles tendon injury at the penultimate round in Denver, forcing him to miss the rest of the season. However, his recovery is progressing well and he is eager to return to racing.

Jim Roach, Yamaha Racing Department Manager for YMUS, said, “We’re excited to have Eli back for 2024. It’s not only great for Yamaha and the team, but for the sport as a whole. We’re also happy to see that his recovery is going well and that he is reenergized and eager to go racing. Together, we’ve had a lot of success with the YZ450F and we aim to continue that success next year.”

Jeremy Coker, Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing 450 Team Manager, expressed his excitement about Tomac’s return, saying, “We couldn’t be happier to have Eli on board for next year. It was a disappointment to have the championship slip away in Denver, but we were hoping that Eli would come back. We’re happy to see that he still has that fire and can’t wait to go racing. There’s definitely unfinished business, and we look forward to next season!”

Eli Tomac himself also shared his enthusiasm about signing for another racing season with the Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing team. He mentioned that his recovery is going well and he expects to be back on the motorcycle around the six-month mark in preparation for the 2024 racing season. Tomac expressed his gratitude to the team and his eagerness to compete for the championship once again.