Krupp – a german family

In the midst of the economic crisis, zdf celebrates the krupp family of entrepreneurs

They were the arms suppliers for the emperor, the fuhrer and the republic. And because they were good businessmen, they also supplied the respective enemies of germany with their weapons. The krupp name stood for coarseness, power, wealth. But in the end, the family was so rich and their company so powerful that krupp became a problem for the young federal republic. And in the end they abolished themselves, the family business became a foundation, the krupp name went out. Just like the fires in the blast furnaces, of which there are only a few left in germany.

Small curve sweep: peugeot 207 rc with 175 hp in the test

Small curve sweep: peugeot 207 rc with 175 hp in the test

Bad durkheim, 14. May 2007 – the clouds hung deep over the hugles of the sadial wine strain, the wind whips the rain almost horizontal through the vineyards. The peugeot 207 rc shows up completely unimpressed. He takes the test track, a review of the former rally at the front pediatric area, at a considerable pace. Read what the little frenchman has to offer anything else.

17-zollersmabig

As so often with ps strong cars, the 207 rc does not look at his power at first glance. The potent small car can be seen at most on the 17-inch alloy wheels, the silver backmirring, the tattered rear slices, the roof edge spoiler, the double tailpipe and the side plankings in body color. In order to take into account the increased driving performance, in the interior sports seats with increased side cheeks are used. In the top model rc cup, in addition to the strong toned side and rear windows and the headlights in "chrome-shadow" optics, the rear stobbar is painted in body color.

Ferrari f12berlinetta: new zwolfzylinder from italy

Ferrari f12berlinetta: new zwolfzylinder from italy

Maranello, 1. Marz 2012 – the new ferrari f12berlinetta lost the 599 gtb fiorano and should be the harbinger of a new generation of zwolfzylinder-ferraris. Officially presented he will be at the fair in geneva.

Short, narrower, flat, lighter

The sports car is short with 4.62 meters about four centimeters short than his process 599. Also reduced were width and high, here are the values of the f12berryleta 1.94 meters and 1.27 meters. The design of the flitzer was created in cooperation with pininfarina. The body sauber scaglietti designed for the vehicle a new chassis with spaceframe chassis and a raw body from zwolf different aluminum alloys. As a result, this should lead to a 20 percent higher torsional stiffness at a simultaneously by 70 to 1525 kilograms weight.

Hypex vr6

Hypex vr6

On 28 august 2014, horex gmbh. August 2014 in augsburg filed for insolvency proceedings. The preliminary insolvency administrator ra rainer muller will go in the next time through the data of the company to save what can be saved. The horex press release wants to preserve all 36 jobs and continue motorcycle production under the traditional horex brand purchased in 2010 "in the long term" preserved. After millions and millions of demand money and investments have not managed to do that, one has to doubt the power of this press release. Too bad.

If one thing has united the motorcycle scene in opinion on the subject of horex, it is the point that we are all happy about the attempt to produce a technically interesting, completely new motorcycle in germany for the german market. Even the accusations about the "playmobil-" or "lego design" are weak. These toys celebrate their enduring success precisely because of the design: solid oversized pieces of solidly colored plastic of good quality, which lasts forever. The simple design emphasized that. It was similar with the horex vr6. I always liked to have a vr6 cafe racer as a playmobil motorcycle. But as a real motorcycle? Nope.

Adac compares co2 emissions and costs of alternative drive systems

The alternative drive systems currently offered in series production still have their problems. This is the result of a six-month endurance test conducted by adac. In the test, the automobile club examined the alternative fuels natural gas, lpg and ethanol as well as the drive concepts mild and full hybrid in terms of their suitability for everyday use, environmental behavior and costs. A clean diesel was used as a reference model for conventional car technology.

With an average consumption of 5.8 l. This was determined on the basis of the adac-ecotest. However, the skoda oktavia with diesel engine proved that a conventional car can also produce few pollutants. It achieved second place, ahead of the honda civic with mild hybrid (third place) and vw touran with natural gas drive (fourth place). In terms of directly measured co2 emissions, neither the subaru outback with liquid gas drive nor the ethanol-powered ford focus bring any improvement. In theory, these fuels offer a co2 advantage in combustion – but in practice, consumption increases to such an extent that the advantage is cancelled out.

Klartext: criticism of pure marketing

I have been following daimler’s marketing of the new s-class with interest. Quite nuchtern had a down-to-earth handler perhaps said: "dear customer, your old s-class is running out, but you could be interested in the new version: good leasing conditions for fleets, even better traffic jam adaptive cruise control, efficient and smooth running engines, better aerodynamics, lots of wellness, check it out." because basically there are only two real usps: it is the first car without incandescent lamps, with exclusively led lights. Hm. And in the v8 version there is a stereo camera, from whose evaluation (tagsuber) the chassis is adjusted. Quite nice. Overall clean update of an existing model. But marketing can’t write that in the brochure. The s-class is the flag bearer of the mercedes-benz brand, and that is why it is sung about as if it were the resurrected christ. Business as usual. The marketing is there to sing these anthems. But the press sings the same song, and that’s why i want to be a dissenting voice. As the doctors sing: "i am against it, because you are for it."

"Vision fulfilled", is the claim of the s-class, and because "vision" is a placeholder term that can be freely used in marketing, doctor snugg… Zetsche goes into more detail about what is meant to be imagined: "in every dimension, our claim was: the best or nothing." as i said, this is only meant to be thought, this is marketing. Even for a luxury class sedan, the doctor’s slogan is meaningless for the actual machine engineering. An s-class with bionically designed, cnc-machined magnesium forged rims and a gold-leaf coated titanium body full of naked slaves would certainly be very nice, but it would be seven-digit expensive. An example is the mentioned "road surface scan" in connection with the "magic body control"a stereo camera detects incoming bumps and adjusts the chassis accordingly. That does not work for over 130 km. "The best or nothing" had to mean: we build this with a (more expensive) laser scanner. Daimler’s realpolitik on the other hand is "we build it, because something cheap was available", and in this case it was the supplier module with the stereo camera. Which will soon also be available in the passat.

The number crunchers

About ambiguities in the official poverty statistics of the world bank

Actually, it should be relatively easy to determine whether poverty in this world has increased, decreased or remained approximately the same in the last ten and twenty years. If you ask the world bank and the international monetary fund (imf), the answer is astonishing: they do not know.

E-bikes in 4.3 million households

E-bikes in 4.3 million households

The number of private households with at least one e-bike has almost tripled in the past five years, as the federal statistical office announced on monday. At the beginning of this year, there was at least one e-bike in 4.3 million households – early 2015 there were still 1.5 million households.

In 11.4 percent of german households, there is at least one e-bike. 65.6 percent had exactly one electrical bicycle, 33.1 percent two. Good one percent of households are three or more electric bicycles. Under electric bicycle or e-bike, the federal office "any form of beads with supporting electric motor drive (also pedelecs)".

Bastel calculator: update for the bbc micro: bit

Bastel calculator: Update for the BBC Micro: Bit

A speaker, a microphone and a touch sensor directly onboard – with the overargested bbc micro: bit are schulerinns and schools soon more opportunities to buy without extra hardware and would have to. In addition, in the microcontroller is more computing power to simplify entry into projects with machine learning.

The micro: bit gets a new processor, nrf52833 from nordic semiconductor with a 64mhz cortex-m4f chip, 512kb flash memory and 128kb ram, the micro: bit educational foundation. A preliminary apparatus already received the espruino developer gordon williams and now support the board in the espruino online ide. For example, javascript programs on the micro: bit could also be used and espruino libraries could be used.