Luxury car maker Rolls-Royce, a unit of German auto giant BMW AG, said on Monday it had developed a fully electric-powered car, but did not say when the environmentally-friendly model would enter production.
Rolls-Royce said the prototype, dubbed the 102EX and based on its top-end "Phantom" model, will be put through various tests throughout 2011.
The normal Phantom is powered by a 6.75 liter 12-cylinder engine, at least three to four times the size of the engine on a typical family sedan, and consumes about one liter of fuel for ever six kilometers traveled.
Rolls-Royce said it will display the prototype at the Geneva Motor Show on March 1, but said there were no immediate plans to develop a production version.
Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos is scheduled to hold a press briefing in Singapore later on Monday.
Intel previews next Itanium mainframe chip
Intel is previewing its next Itanium processor today and improvements include better power management, reliability, and architecture. No timeline was set for the next Itanium, code-named Poulson.
The next Itanium will be designed to take advantage of advances in the Xeon processor architecture. The two chips will also be pin compatible. Itanium is targeted at the Unix and mainframe markets. Xeons handle Windows, Solaris, and Linux machines
Rory M. McInerney, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group and director of the Microprocessor Development Group, planned to preview Itanium at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco.
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