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Mitsubishi's LA Design Challenge Entry Reveals MMR25, Rally Racer Of The Future

Each year the LA Auto Show pits the best of the best of designers from the automakers to try and design some creative looks at our automotive future. Last year, it was all about "green," but this year, the project's called Motorsport 2025, and it's designed to show off what the race car of 2025 will look like.

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Mitsubishi breaks from convention and introduces the MMR25.

While the look is shocking, the multi-terrain, omnidirectional wheels consist of eight independently-controlled motors, allowing for “8 x 4” wheel drive so that the car can be driven forward while pointing in any direction. The MMR25 drives sideways into a corner and points the nose of the car outwards before even reaching the apex of the curve while driving sideways or backwards.

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Some big established Japanese companies are putting new efforts in emerging solar power technologies: Mitsubishi Chemical sees opportunity to produce thin film solar cells and Sanyo recently opened an Advanced Development Center to concentrate on developing thin film technology.

Solar Energy Technology

Clipped from: Solar Energy Technologies Program: Thin Films

Thin films of special photovoltaic material can produce solar cells with relatively high conversion efficiencies, while using much less material than crystalline silicon cells. The key materials or technologies that we will discuss are amorphous silicon (a-Si), copper indium diselenide (CIS) and its alloys, and cadmium telluride (CdTe). We also will discuss thin films that use a multijunction design.
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Clipped from: Solar Energy Technologies Program: Crystalline Silicon

The solar cell is the basic building block of a photovoltaic system. Individual cells can vary in size from about 1 cm (1/2 inch) to about 10 cm (4 inches) across. This crystalline silicon cell was manufactured by Siemens Solar Industries.
Modules
Clipped from: Solar Energy Technologies Program: Photovoltaic Modules

This PV and wind system contains 8 - 120 watt PV modules that are used for power at a Colorado home

Thin Film Projects

Clipped from: Solar Thin Film Technology Attracts Big Players in Japan | Solar Feeds Solar Thin Film Technology Attracts Big Players in Japan

Thin film solar technology has attracted interest from venture capitalists because of its higher efficiency, lower use of limited silicon, and more easily automated production processes. Now, established Japanese players in the solar arena are getting in the thin film game, followed by companies in China and India, as reported in Renewable Energy World.

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Clipped from: Mitsubishi Corporation
August 14, 2008
Large-scale Photovoltaic (PV) demonstration project in Brunei Darussalam

Clipped from: Mitsubishi Corporation Announces Large-scale Photovoltaic (PV) Demonstration Project in Brunei Darussalam - MarketWatch

Mitsubishi Corporation Announces Large-scale Photovoltaic (PV) Demonstration Project in Brunei Darussalam

In this demonstration project, a PV system with nominal capacity of 1.2 MW, currently the largest in South-East Asia, will be installed at Seria Power Station in Belait District. With the utilization of this PV system, EDPMO, the Department of Electrical Services and MC will jointly carry out verification tests and evaluations over a period of three (3) years after commissioning. This will be the first installment of a large-scale PV system in Brunei Darussalam.
Clipped from: Brunei Aspires To Be First In The World To Run Purely On Solar Energy - DigitalJournal.com: The Power of Citizen Journalism

SANYO
Clipped from: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. Global
Clipped from: SANYO -SOLAR ARK-

The Solar Ark, a unique, ark-shaped, solar photovoltaic power generation facility, offers activities to cultivate a better appreciation of solar power generation, and thereby of both ecology and science. This 315m-wide, 37m-tall facility is located in Gifu Prefecture, in the geographical center of Japan, and can be seen from the JR Tokaido bullet train, which runs past on an adjacent railway track.
Stationed at the center of the Solar Ark is the Solar Lab, a museum of solar energy and one of the more unusual museums in the world. A unique, hands-on, outdoor light exhibition will be launched here in 2005, for the first time in Japan. In the future, expect a variety of interesting things to emanate from here.

Clipped from: SANYO to Establish 'Advanced Photovoltaics Development Center' | News Releases | SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. Global

SANYO to Establish 'Advanced Photovoltaics Development Center
In the Gifu Plant-where the Solar Ark stands as a monument and symbol for a clean energy society

Tokyo, December 5, 2007-SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) announced today that it will establish a new 'Advanced Photovoltaics Development Center' within its Gifu Plant in Japan. The plant, located in Anpachi, Gifu prefecture, houses the Solar Ark, a large-scale solar power generation facility that stands as a monument to the world of SANYO's commitment and efforts to create a clean energy-based society.

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Mitsubishi's MMR25 Rally Racer

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