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Porsche has started taking orders for its new hybrid sports car, 918 Spyder. It will be the world’s first plug-in hybrid car.

Porsche will be producing only 918 cars, and apparently, the sports cars will be available from September 2013.

Porsche had first revealed this concept in the 2010 Geneva Motor show. This hybrid car will be consisting of 500 HP V8 engine, with two electric motors.

Each motor will be producing an additional power of 109 HP, which can propel the two door hybrid machine with a speed of 199 mph.

The 918 Spyder will get its efficiency from a battery pack, which can be charged at home. It will provide 16 miles of battery range, at a speed of up to 94 mph.

In an online launch on Saturday, BMW introduced its improved and more powerful BMW 650i.

The third generation sports car is equipped with the latest technology. BMW said that this new model would be working better than its predecessors.

The new BMW 650i is equipped with various new features like rear view camera, infrared pedestrian detection system and Parallel Park.

This new BMW Twin turbo charged sports car comes with a powerful V8 engine, which produces around 400 horsepower.

Sebastian Thrun, lead developer of Google’s automated vehicle project gave a demo of its self driving car at the Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) 2011 conference in Long Beach, California, this week.

Google also played a video on the amazing capabilities of the driver less car.

The car has amazing capabilities
Apart from the live demonstration, the video that Google showed at TED exhibited very impressive driving by these self driving cars on real roads.

The video posted on YouTube, displayed the remarkable driving by the car as it avoided a deer that suddenly jumped in front of the car, and also took a sharp turn on a steep hill road while a truck was coming from the other side.

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