Base Price: $32,500 (eligible for $7500 Federal Tax Credit and $2500 California Clean Vehicle Rebate Project); 36-month lease terms of $199/month and $999 due at signing
Competitors: Nissan Leaf, Ford Focus EV, Honda Fit EV, Toyota RAV4 EV
Powertrains: AC electric motor, 117 hp, 147 lb-ft; 24-kwh lithium-ion battery pack, direct drive, FWD
EPA Fuel Economy (city/hwy): 122/108 mpge
What's New: Fiat has electrified the 500, ditching internal combustion in favor of a 117-hp electric motor powered by a 24-kwh lithium-ion battery pack. The 500e looks pretty much like any other Fiat 500, but the addition of some aero tweaks adds about 5 extra miles of range. It sits slightly higher than the gas car, too, to accommodate the 600-pound battery underneath the floor. That battery also improves the car's previously nose-heavy 63/37 front-to-rear weight distribution, to a more balanced 53/47. Inside, the 500e cops all the fancy pieces from the Lounge trim, such as automatic climate control and premium seats, but without the sunroof-?which is to say, it's well equipped for a car in this category.
Tech Tidbit: The 500e has an EPA estimated range of 87 miles, thanks largely to liquid cooling and heating in the 24-kwh battery. Ethylene glycol and corrosion inhibitors cycle through the 97 cells to ensure consistent temperature across the battery during recharging and driving, which helps maintain range.
Driving Character: The electrified Fiat exhibits all the personality traits we've come to expect of small electric cars. The standard benefits of a pint-sized EV, including near-silent driving and instantaneous shift-free acceleration, are all here. But rather than feeling like a half-hearted effort at satisfying federal and California government mandates, the 500e is a pretty good ride. It has the most natural brake pedal we've felt in any electric car to date, and a unique ?creep? feature that makes the gas pedal feel more familiar, too.
Power delivery is excellent, with the exception of some torque steer. One negative: We expected the car to feel more balanced than its gas-powered cousin because of the more even weight distribution, but the low-rolling resistance tires (the same 185/55R15 size as the nonturbo gas-powered 500) are so prone to understeer that the handling difference is undetectable.
Favorite Detail: The Fiat 500e Pass Program. Every 500e sold will come with a solution to your need for a road trip: twelve free days per year of Chrysler rental car use at Enterprise, Alamo, or National, for three years. You might think of this as a cheesy attempt to quell range anxiety, but it's a creative way to make the 500e more practical for single-car households who occasionally need to drive farther than the EV's range will allow.
Driver's Grievance: While we like that Fiat is using an add-on TomTom navigation unit in lieu of a costly comprehensive system, we would love if the display weren't mounted smack-dab in the driver's field of view. Also, the steering wheel is too far away from many drivers. But these complaints are true of any 500, and they are minor ones at that.
Bottom Line: If you're looking to reduce your carbon footprint and cheapen the ride to work (plus get access to the commuter lane), the Fiat 500e is as good a way to go as any. Not only does it retain the 500's cheeky styling, but it also retains much of the gas-powered car's cute, plucky nature in every other area. And as electric cars go, this thing really does drive well, with plenty of torque on demand, a great brake pedal, and effortless steering. The included smartphone app and 500e Pass rental car plan are added purchase incentives.
The microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is nearly identical to that of ambient air on the city streets. This research, published ahead of print in the journalApplied and Environmental Microbiology, establishes an important baseline, should it become necessary to monitor the subway's air for dispersal of potentially dangerous microbes. Also, the combination of new methodologies in the study, including fast collection of aerosols and rapid sequencing technology, provide an efficient means for monitoring which was not previously available.
The results "are strong testimony for the efficiency of the train pumping system for ventilation," says principal investigator Norman R. Pace of the University of Colorado, Boulder. The wind one feels while walking across a subway grate as the subway clatters beneath also demonstrates just how effective that system is, he says. The only obvious differences in the subway's microbial population are the somewhat higher proportion of skin microbiota, and the doubled density of the fungal population, which Pace suggests may be due to rotting wood. "I was impressed by the similarity of [subway] and outdoor air," he says.
The researchers used a high tech mechanism to collect air at around 300 liters per minute (L/min), a big jump on the previous state of the art, which swallowed 12 L/min. That enabled collecting sufficient volume of air?a couple of cubic meters?to take the bacterial census within 20 minutes, instead of after "hours," says Pace. And analysis by sequencing is far faster and more thorough then using culture.
Pace notes that until now, the microbial content of subway air was unknown, and that the microbiology of indoor air is an emerging field of scientific inquiry. His research was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, through its Microbiology of the Built Environment program, which has made 64 grants totaling $28 million to date.
"While it is difficult to predict what will be discovered on the frontier of scientific inquiry, the opportunity exists to better understand these complex microbial ecosystems and how they affect health and the environment. We expect that someday this knowledge will influence design and construction practices and other industrial processes," says Paula Olsiewski, program director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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C.E. Robertson, L.K. Baumgartner, J.K. Harris, K.L. Peterson, M.J. Stevens, D.N. Frank, and N.R. Pace, 2013. Culture-independent analysis of aerosol microbiology in a metropolitan subway system. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. Published ahead of print 29 March 2013 ,doi:10.1128/AEM.00331-13
American Society for Microbiology: http://www.asm.org
Thanks to American Society for Microbiology for this article.
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University of Alberta led research reveals that Microraptor, a small flying dinosaur was a complete hunter, able to swoop down and pickup fish as well as its previously known prey of birds and tree dwelling mammals.
U of A paleontology graduate student Scott Persons says new evidence of Microrpator's hunting ability came from fossilized remains in China. "We were very fortunate that this Microraptor was found in volcanic ash and its stomach content of fish was easily identified."
Prior to this, paleontologists believed microraptors which were about the size of a modern day hawk, lived in trees where they preyed exclusively on small birds and mammals about the size of squirrels.
"Now we know that Microraptor operated in varied terrain and had a varied diet," said Persons. "It took advantage of a variety of prey in the wet, forested environment that was China during the early Cretaceous period, 120 million years ago."
Further analysis of the fossil revealed that its teeth were adapted to catching slippery, wiggling prey like fish. Dinosaur researchers have established that most meat eaters had teeth with serrations on both sides which like a steak knife helped the predator saw through meat.
But the Microraptor's teeth are serrated on just one side and its teeth are angled forwards.
"Microraptor seems adapted to impale fish on its teeth. With reduced serrations the prey wouldn't tear itself apart while it struggled," said Persons. "Microraptor could simply raise its head back, the fish would slip off the teeth and be swallowed whole, no fuss no muss."
Persons likens the Microraptor's wing configuration to a bi-plane. "It had long feathers on its forearms, hind legs and tail," said Persons. "It was capable of short, controlled flights."
This is the first evidence of a flying raptor, a member of the Dromaeosaur family of dinosaurs to successfully prey on fish.
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University of Alberta: http://www.ualberta.ca
Thanks to University of Alberta for this article.
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The iDuo2Go Charge and Sync Cable for iPod, iPhone, and iPad with USB 3.0 SD Card Reader from Atech Flash Technology is a surprisingly useful if simple bit of mobile gear. It’s a USB 3.0 SD card reader, or an iPhone/iPad 30-pin sync/charge cable. Why bring two things on your next trip when one will [...]
iOS: Google Googles is a great way to search for objects in the real world based on an image, but it's not exactly the most accurate app out there. CamFind does the same basic trick, but it's a little more accurate and provides a wealth of information.
Like Google Goggles, you just need to snap a picture of something in CamFind, and it hunts down the image to give you information. This can be text, landmarks, products, books, art, translations, and even movie posters. Once you snap a picture, CamFind searches for similar images and then provides you with shopping information, related places, Yelp results, and more. Compared side-by-side, CamFind seems a bit more accurate then Google Goggles, albeit a little slower on the search itself. If you tried out Google Goggles and were underwhelmed by the results, CamFind's worth a look.
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error C2612: trailing '/' illegal in base/member initializer list
: means???
i appologize if the code does not come out in code format i am new to this forum so i am not sure how to actually post it like a code..
the part of my code that it is talking about is
bad_hmean(double a = 0, double b = 0) : v1(a), v2(b ){}; bad_gmean(double a = 0, double b = 0) : v1(a), v2(b ){}; double hmean(double a, double b ) throw(bad_hmean); double gmean(double a, double b ) throw(bad_gmean);
can someone clarify what this error message mean??
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Re: C2612: trailing '/' illegal in base/member initializer list
Posted Today, 04:33 PM
Please make sure you use a descriptive title. "Error" is not a descriptive title.
