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A REVOLUTIONARY ‘green’ rally has continued its run of success.
The Cockerham-based Oaktec Honda Hybrid rally team got their season underway at the Roskirk Stages at the Three sisters venue near Manchester – and it was pretty much business as usual as they scored another Formula 1000 Class A victory. The Oaktec Honda Insight, the worlds first petrol electric hybrid stage rally car, is now in its fourth year of competitive motorsport and recorded its eighth class win from … Details
 Raser Technologies will unveil a 100+ mpg SUV at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress later this month. The vehicle will be powered by Raser’s E-REV powertrain and was developed in conjunction with Raser’s integration partner, FEV and an as-yet-unnamed global automaker. The full-size SUV is a four-wheel drive Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV) designed to achieve over 100 mpg in typical local daily driving with near zero emissions by driving up to 40 miles per day in all-electric mode.
Just one year ago, at the 2008 SAE World Congress, Raser announced it was … Details
PKF insolvency experts are fighting car giant Honda for unpaid fees after being dismissed as administrators for defunct Formula One racing team Super Aguri last year.
Partners from PKF are owed around £300,000 for their work as joint administrators to Super Aguri, of which Honda was the major creditor with tens of millions owing when the racing team collapsed.
Honda, which closed its own Formula One team this season, rejected the administrators’ plan to sell Super Aguri, and their fees, then appointed liquidators from BDO Stoy Hayward to sell the assets of the business. Super Aguri was officially placed into liquidation on 7 July 2008.
PKF’s joint administrators, Philip Long, Brian Hamblin and Ian Gould, have applied to the courts to protect their fees… Details