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HYBRID DRIVING – TOYOTA’S TOP TIPS FOR BEST FUEL ECONOMY MAY 3, 2015 Want to get the very best out of your ground-breaking Toyota hybrid? We’ve gathered a number of hybrid driving hints and tips that will help you to get the best from the Hybrid Synergy Drive system, improving fuel consumption and getting you further for less! Our full range of Toyota hybrids currently includes: New Yaris Hybrid Auris Hybrid   Auris Hybrid Touring Sports Prius Seven-seat Prius+ Prius Plug-in Whichever  Toyota hybrid  you’ve set your heart on, the following tips and pointers will maximise the range and fuel economy of your Toyota. The basics It’s not just hybrids that benefit from the first seven tips – these will help to improve any car’s fuel efficiency: 1. Clear out the boot! Keeping the boot free of unnecessary weight will give your car and immediate boost in performance and economy. 2. Check your tyre pressures – dig out your owner’s manual, and do a ...

Scientists have replicated a crucial photosynthetic reaction for the first time, taking them a step closer to creating sustainable, cheap fuel from water and sunlight - just like plants do. FIONA MACDONALD    WEDNESDAY, 27 AUGUST 2014 Image:  Australian National University Plants use  photosynthesis  to turn water, carbon dioxide and sunlight into oxygen and the energy they need to power their systems. And for decades scientists have been trying to replicate this reaction in order to create biological systems that can produce cheap, clean hydrogen fuel. Now, for the first time ever, scientists from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, have managed to modify a naturally occurring protein, and use it to capture energy from sunlight, a key step in photosynthesis. Their results have been published in  BBA Bioenergetics . “Water is abundant and so is sunlight. It is an exciting prospect to use them to create hydrogen, and ...

If there was ever a need, the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India's damning reports on the depleted state of Indian military's readiness took the hot-air out of the myth of Pakistan Army specific 'Cold-Start Doctrine' (CSD). If CAG reports weren`t damaging enough, recent media reports of its feeble condition have made it the laughing stock. Rundown condition of the its legacy hardware has taken the sting out of its numerical superiority; a far cry from an aggressive strategy of the CSD. Some years ago, in an attempt to leverage its conventional superiority over Pakistan, the Indian Army announced a new offensive doctrine. The doctrine envisioned a quick mobilization of Indian strike formations without giving away battle indicators. In a 2004 military exercise, with a huge fanfare, live fire demonstrations and allot of ata-boy pats on their own backs, the doctrine was declared a complete success. In strategic terms, CSD was conceived to box the Indian civili...