Month: December 2022

Acura has confirmed the development of the Integra Type S, and the high-performance variant of the five-door fastback (it has a hatch) is set to join the Integra lineup for the 2024 model year.

Along with these images of the Integra Type S wrapped in camouflage, Honda’s premium brand says that the car will have “ultimate street performance and driver engagement” and it will be powered by a 2.0 litre VTEC turbocharged engine producing “over 300 horsepower”. Only a six-speed manual transmission will be offered, and the Type S will have a limited slip differential.

The 2.0L turbo should be the same engine serving in the latest FL5 Honda Civic Type R. US-spec CTRs put out 320 PS and 420 Nm of torque, which is 9 PS/20 Nm up from the US-spec FK8 CTR. The FL5’s KC20C1 develops 330 PS/420 Nm in Japan.

It’s the same engine as the one

Although car manufacturers have not gone all in on hydrogen fuel cell technology the way that they have with battery electric cars, now and then we get news of a new hydrogen car being developed. This is the latest one from BMW, a hydrogen fuel cell version of the BMW X5 that it is calling the BMW iX5 Hydrogen.

Interesting to see the X5 decked out in zero emissions form because a battery EV BMW iX5 does not exist, instead the electric SUV model positioned above the iX3 is the BMW iX. The iX5 Hydrogen gets swathes of blue around its body, and notably the kidney grille still looks like a grille instead of being blanked out like on the i4 and iX3.

The fuel cell system is in the engine bay. Two hydrogen tanks are stored in the centre tunnel and under the rear seat. A small battery along

Dengan pelantikan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sebagai Perdana Menteri ke-10 Malaysia pada 24 November lalu, ramai telah mengalihkan perhatian kepada jemaah menteri kabinet yang akan dibentuk. Akhirnya jawapan untuk perkara itu kini diketahui, dengan Anwar mengumumkan barisan menteri utama dalam kabinetnya susulan kunjungan menghadap Duli Yang Maha Mulia Yang di-Pertuan Agong XVI Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah pagi tadi.

Beberapa kementerian utama yang berperanan dalam menentukan hala tuju industri automotif dan mobiliti negara termasuklah Kementerian Pengangkutan (MOT), Kementerian Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri (MITI), Kementerian Kerja Raya (KKR), Kementerian Kewangan (MOF) serta diera perkembangan teknologi kenderaan elektrik ini, Kementerian Alam Sekitar dan Air (KASA).

MOT bertanggungjawab dengan hal-hal berkaitan lesen pemanduan, pengangkutan awam dan peraturan lalu lintas. MITI dan MOF pula bertanggungjawab menentukan bagaimana kenderaan akan ditentukan harganya di sini, sementara KKR menjalan kerja-kerja berkaitan jalan dan lebuhraya, sementara KASA menjadi sandaran ke arah Malaysia Mapan 2030, yang melibatkan EV.

In conjunction with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTMB) has announced that it is offering free rides for persons with disabilities (OKU) this Saturday and Sunday (December 3-4).

The rail operator said that the free rides being offered this weekend are available for all KTM Komuter services in the Klang Valley and northern sectors. It said that the initiative is being repeated after it received an encouraging response when it was introduced last year, as Bernama reports.

“Statistics show that in 2021, a total of 37,363 PwDs used the KTM Komuter service, while as of October, statistics show an increase to 74,458 disabled passengers,” the company said via a statement.

To enjoy the free rides, persons with disabilities – and one accompanying passenger – only need to present their official OKU card issued by the ministry of women, family and community development, as well as