{"id":240,"date":"2007-10-24T11:17:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T11:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-11-08T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T11:46:26","slug":"zany-and-green-at-the-tokyo-motor-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/zany-and-green-at-the-tokyo-motor-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Zany and green at the Tokyo motor show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/ireal20071024.jpg?resize=120%2C180\" align=\"left\" height=\"180\" width=\"120\" \/>Zany concept vehicles and fuel efficient    hybrids vied for attention at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyo-motorshow.com\/show\/2007\/eng\/public\/outline\/outline.html\">Tokyo Motor Show<\/a>.    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/hict20071024.jpg?resize=180%2C120\" align=\"right\" height=\"120\" width=\"180\" \/>Both Toyota and Honda tried to soften the image of sports cars as gas  guzzlers with concept hybrids running on a mix of petrol and electricity.\u00a0    Fuel cells, which run on hydrogen and emit only water, also make an    appearance as Honda shows off the &#8220;PUYO&#8221; concept car with a &#8220;gel body&#8221; to  improve safety and &#8220;the feel of an adorable pet&#8221;.   Despite the success of the hybrid, car makers are still hedging their bets    on green technology, with electricity, biofuels, clean diesel and fuel cells  also seen as potential alternative power sources.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/puyo20071024.jpg?w=940\" align=\"left\" \/>Toyota is among automakers trying to lighten the load so as to reduce fuel    consumption, unveiling the 1\/X (pronounced one-Xth) plug-in hybrid; the car is said to be two-thirds lighter than Toyota&#8217;s hot-selling Prius    and twice as fuel efficient thanks to the use of carbon fibre materials.\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/pixyandssc20071024.jpg?resize=180%2C120\" align=\"right\" height=\"120\" width=\"180\" \/>Toyota    president Katsuaki Watanabe, trundled onto the stage on the i-REAL, which    resembles a high-tech armchair on wheels. Among the more wacky designs on show was Suzuki&#8217;s Sharing Coach which looks    more like a small spacecraft than a car, with two smaller one-person PIXY pods  on wheels that fit snugly inside. Nissan showed off the Pivo 2 egg-shaped electric concept car that has a    rotating cabin, can drive sideways and comes with a talking &#8220;robot agent&#8221; to  cheer you up or help with navigation.\u00a0 Its &#8220;Round Box&#8221; curvy compact convertible is said to be &#8220;like  being on a roller-coaster yet without any risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zany concept vehicles and fuel efficient hybrids vied for attention at the Tokyo Motor Show. Both Toyota and Honda tried to soften the image of sports cars as gas guzzlers with concept hybrids running on a mix of petrol and electricity.\u00a0 Fuel cells, which run on hydrogen and emit only water, also make an appearance &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/zany-and-green-at-the-tokyo-motor-show\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zany and green at the Tokyo motor show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-3S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}