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Bremach T-Rex

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Essentially a plug-in steroidal, man-sized Tonka truck, the Bremach T-Rex takes green power beyond mere passenger cars and into the realm of ruggedly capable vehicles. Bremach has been making industrial grade trucks since the 1950s and is now breaking new ground with this monster that houses a 100kW electric motor providing a 150 mile range, just enough to drive around your city to simultaneously petrify and impress diminutive hybrid drivers. For increased range, you can also opt for a standard gas V8 powered engine that gets a lengthy 20 mpg on the highway. The most boast-worthy aspect of this beast of burden is that the spaceframe can handle 5 Gs of force, the equivalent of having an angry herd of pregnant rhinos run at it (just kidding).

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Bremach T-Rex Shows Abilities of Electric Large Work Truck

In trying to prove that EV technology is capable of being adapted to heavy duty trucks, truck builder Bremach hopes their new T-Rex is just the machine to do just that. With an electric motor that provides 10 kW of power at 0 rpm, the T-Rex has a claimed 150-mile range even when under working conditions. With three rows of seating, Bremach engineers and designers came up with an exposed skeleton design to accommodate the necessary space.

The company claims that it can withstand five Gs of force, which is two Gs more than its competition. And if a full EV truck of this type isn't for you, the company is also offering the T-Rex with a 6.0-liter Chevrolet V8 gasoline engine that's mated to either a six-speed manual or a five-speed automatic transmission. Bremach claims the gasoline-powered version is still capable of achieving 20 mpg on the highway. In addition to both of these, there are also compressed natural gas and hybrid options. Each of the powertrains are available as either a two or four-door hardtop along with a two-door convertible.

As most can guess, the T-Rex isn't cheap, with the EV version topping off at around $120,000 when fully loaded.

Bremach T-Rex Truck: Compact, Rugged And Available With An Electric Drivetrain

Tough guys deserve rugged rides.  And when a Land Rover is too small and a full-size truck is too big, the Bremach T-Rex is just the perfect vehicle to steal your attention.

Styled to offer maximum cab space while staying compact, the truck measures just 69.7 inches wide, leaving every backroad and tight space an easily manageable drive.  With 11 inches of ground clearance and  a 31-inch fording capability, it should be capable of handling any difficult terrain.

The Bremach T-Rex has an exoskeleton cab that looks boxier than usual, which turns out to be surprisingly attractive.  It goes beyond being veritable eye candy, though, as that frame essentially doubles as a virtual roll cage.  The space-frame will reputedly handle 5 Gs of force, which you can imagine as a top-fuel dragster going from 0 to 100 mph in around 0.9 seconds smashing into you.  That’s wicked strong.

One of the slim truck’s most notable features is the variety in power options.  You can outfit it with a regular gas or diesel engine for weekend outdoor use (standard offerings are a 323-hp GM Vortec V-8 and a 325-hp Cummins I-6).  If you’d like some green cred to go with your burly everyday ride, you can score it with a plug-in setup consisting of a 114-volt VLV motor and a 100kW battery module,  which sets it up for a 65 mph top speed and a 150-mile range.

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As with most specialty rides, they offer plenty of options in parts for this full-time 4×4, so you can geek out on specs when ordering one.  Price starts at $120,000.  You can check out Bremach’s website to learn more.

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In 2008, the all-new model Bremach T-Rex was shown. In the future it should completely replace the old range. The new model produces in 3,5 t and 6,0 t variants, with the wheelbase from 2400 to 3700 mm. T-Rex has a permanent four-wheel drive transmission, with three pneumatically lockable differentials. It is also possible to equip it with front and rear PTO shafts and hydraulic motor. Engines are 4-cylinder with output of 114, 144 (Euro4) or 173 hp (Euro5). Gearbox is 6-speed manual ZF or 5-speed automatic Allison. Front axle is 1480 mm width (1645 mm as an option).

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• Construction Year - XXXX 2011
• Unit Year 2011
• Mileage 257000 KM
• Engine Type Iveco 4 cyl 3L diesel
• Power 170 Horsepower
• Emission Standard Euro 5

• Driver's side Left-hand drive
• Number of Seats 2
• Length x Width x Height 600 x 200 x 252 cm
• Wheelbase 345 CM
• Curb Weight 4210 KG
• Gross Vehicle Weight 6000 KG

• Fresh Water Tank 180 Liters
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Expeditions- und sonstige Fahrzeuge ...

Bremach T.TREK -

Oder: gernot´s "picknick-körbchen" ....

Vorbemerkung der Redaktion: Auch wenn wir in dieser Rubrik etliche Beiträge rund um den Pickup haben: Für wirklich "große" Reisen ist er sicherlich kaum das richtige Expeditionsfahrzeug, was schon in unserem Beitrag über die richtige Auswahl eines solchen Fahrzeugs deutlich wird.

Unser "Picknick-Körbchen" ist ein echtes Expeditionsmobil: Wir sind mit ihm inzwischen (erst) 40.000 km durch Europa, Afrika und Australien gereist - große Strecken über den Asphalt, aber auch viel über Stock und Stein. Seine Geländegängigkeit ist einfach phänomenal - selbst die echten Outback-Australier haben Bauklötzchen gestaunt ... 

Das Fahrgestell: Bremach T.TREK

Aufgrund seiner Konzeption übersteigt dieser 4x4-LKW die Leistungsfähigkeit der üblichen Allrad-Pick up's deutlich: Aufgrund des geringen Fahrgestellgewichtes können bei technischen Gesamtgewichten bis zu 5,0 t nahezu 2.900 kg Nutzlast auf dem Fahrgestell erreicht werden: Werte, die auch größere LKWs nicht immer vorweisen können. 

Selbst bei einer Beschränkung auf EU-konforme 3,5 t bleiben noch bis zu 1.400 kg Nutzlast für Koffer, Zubehör und Beladung übrig, wobei ich immer die die Gewissheit habe, mit einem Fahrzeug unterwegs zu sein, das auf 5,0 t Gesamtgewicht ausgelegt wurde ...

Für den extremen Geländeeinsatz habe ich die die Geländegängigkeit des T.TREK durch eine komplett neue Fahrwerksabstimmung nochmals verbessert: Durch modifizierte Blattfedern wurde eine weitere Erhöhung der Bauchfreiheit um ca. 35 mm erreicht und in Kombination mit einer neuen Stoßdämpferabstimmung konnte eine optimale Geländeleistung erzielt werden.

Wichtige technische Daten 

• BREMACH T.TREK 45.3/4x4 RB, Radstand 300 cm 
• Bereifung 9.00 R16 (Sprengring), 100% elektromechanische Differentialsperre HA 
• 4 Zyl Reihenmotor 2,8l Turbo, FW-Version, ca 130 PS, Übersetzung 1:4,5 (lang) 
• 24 Gänge: 5 Gang Schaltgetriebe mit Vorschaltgetriebe mit "Halbgängen" + 4 Rückwärts 
• Reisegeschwindigkeit auf der Autobahn ca. 120-130 km/h (Vmax Bergab 150km/h, ist aber (fast) kriminell) 
• Einzelkabine mit Hochdach, Hochgelegter Ansaugstutzen mit Zyklon 
• Tropenkühler, Tanks 2 x 160 l, Unterfahrschutz für Ölwanne 
• Bullbar vorne mit Rahmenverstärkung, Tankschutzplatten aus Alu
• Abschleppkupplung vorne, Abschlepp- und Anhängekupplung hinten 
• Winch (hydraulisch) MileMarker 12000 (5.4 t) 
• Reifenfüllanlage mit 10 l Luftkessel 
• Klimaanlage, elektrische Fensterheber, Tempomat 
• 2 Batteriekreisläufe (1x Gel, 1x Blei) mit Trennschalter und CALIRA Ladeautomat 
• 4 Super Heavy Duty Stoßdämpfer "RALPH" von Opposite-Lock (baugleich GABRIEL).

Der DUSTDEVIL Koffer im Überblick

• Extrem robuste Alu-Verbundbauweise 
• super stabil, mit hochwertiger, luxuriöser Innen-Verarbeitung (Birke/Waldesche)
• 300 cm x 200 cm x 147 cm, Hubdach lichte Weite 165 cm x 165 cm (auf 185 cm Stehhöhe) 
• Bettfläche max. 191 cm x 139 cm, Bettkasten für Gepäck und Wasservorrat nutzbar (8 x 20 l)
• 2 separate Küchenblöcke 71 cm x 64 cm x 90 cm, Mittelteil als Schrank, Notdusche und Notdurchgang nutzbar 
• Edelstahl Kühlschrank "MINUS 40" - 40 Liter 
• Wallas 95DU Diesel-Ceran Kochfeld mit Außenkamin.

Das Hubdach

Vor sich auf dem Dach hat der fleißige Koch noch einen Streifen Riffelblech, auf dem heiße Töpfe abgestellt werden können - so steht bei schönem Wetter eine vergrößerte Arbeitsfläche zur Verfügung. Die Wirkung ist die einer Außenküche, ohne dass die Arbeitsgeräte immer rein- und raus geschleppt werden müssen. Um diese große Arbeitsfläche werden wir von draußen auf Provisorien arbeitenden "Mitkochern" regelmäßig beneidet. 

Sollte das Wetter einmal nicht so optimal sein, weil ein kalter Wind weht oder es uns den Sand in die Spaghetti bläst, klappen wir die Seitenfenster einfach runter und verriegeln sie mit Schnappern. So haben wir innerhalb Minuten feste Seitenwände und tollen Lichteinfall mit voller Rundumsicht durch insgesamt acht Fenster bei einer Stehhöhe von 195 cm.

Die gesamte Inneneinrichtung besteht aus Birke-Multiplexplatten in einer Stärke von 15 mm. Die Umleimer sind aus massiver Waldesche. Alles nicht benötigte Material ist ausgeschnitten - dadurch haben die Möbel das Gewicht von vielleicht 6 mm Platten, aber die Festigkeit von 15 mm. 

Rechts unten ist eine Einheit mit vielen Lüftungslöchern, dahinter befindet sich der 40 l - Edelstahl-Kühlschrank aus Südafrika auf Schwerlast-Vollauszügen. Eine Kühlbox, die selbst 25 kg wiegt, 25 kg Inhalt hat und bei harten Sprüngen im Gelände mit 2 bis 3-facher Beschleunigung gegen die Verrieglungsschlösser tobt, ist von den Schlössern alleine nicht mehr zu halten, deswegen wird der Kühlschrank mit Zusatzsicherungen gehalten.

Zwölf Schubläden auf Schwerlast-Vollauszügen erleichtern es, an die Vorräte und die Küchengeräte zu kommen. Für dauerhafte Haltbarkeit sind alle Schubläden innen mit Resopal verkleidet: Das ist das Material, auf dem man ansonsten mit dem Messer auf der Küchenplatte schneidet ..!

Die großen Schubläden, die Wasserschublade, der Flaschenwagen und die schwere Kühlbox sind mit Schraubensicherungen im schweren Gelände zusätzlich zu den Schlössern gesichert.

Zu dem Thema Gas oder nicht Gas kann man beliebig viel diskutieren: Wir haben uns für Diesel entschieden und halten es für die beste aller Heiz- und Kochmöglichkeiten, da:

• immer in ausreichender Menge vorhanden
• wenn mal ein Malheur passiert, dann stinkt es eben mal ein paar Tage nach Diesel, bei Gasproblemen könnte man schon mal "hochfliegende" Pläne verwirklichen!
• wir heizen auch mit einer Diesel-Luftheizung 
• die Versorgung mit Gas ist in den verschiedenen Ländern schon ein großes Problem, mit einem Satz von 20 verschiedenen Gasadaptern für die verschiedenen Normen kommt man schon ganz schön weit ...

Last but not least: Containertauglichkeit

Gut sieht man im Größenvergleich mit den "benachbarten" Jaguars im Bild unten links die extrem kompakte Form des 3-m-Aufbaus mit geschlossenem Hubdach. Das Hubdach ist auf einer im Dach integrierten Trägerplatte montiert und kann innerhalb kurzer Zeit für die Verschiffung im Container abgebaut werden.

Die Gesamthöhe mit vollen Reifen und nicht abgenommenem Hubdach beträgt 251 cm in teilbeladenem Zustand. Zur Einfahrt in den Container wird das Hubdach abgenommen und die Reifen werden durch spezielle, mit Vollgummi überzogene Einfahrtsscheiben ersetzt. 

Das Fahrzeug ist damit um 24 cm niedriger und passt genau in einen Standard 20"-Container mit 229 cm Einfahrtshöhe und einer Türöffungsbreite von 234 cm (die maximale Fahrzeugbreite des DUSTDEVIL-Bremach - mit eingeklappten Außenspiegeln - beträgt 200 cm) - beste Voraussetzung also für die große Reise ...

© 2004 Gernot Radl († 2015)

Nachtrag, Mai ´05: Wie gut sind Dieselkocher?

Zum Thema "Wallas-Dieselkocher", mit dem Gernot Radl doch recht zufrieden ist, gab es eine Anfrage unseres Lesers Steffen Breinig : 

Hallo, habe bei Ihnen gelesen, daß ein Wallas-Dieselkocher eingesetzt wurde. Mich interessiert vor allem welche Vor - und Nachteile sich im Gebrauch gezeigt haben. Ich überlege zur Zeit, die alte Gasanlage in meinem Boot zu erneuern mit allen Problemen, die eben so am Gas hängen, oder auf das Wallas-Gerät umzusteigen. Da das Gerät nicht ganz billig ist, suche ich Nutzer, die was dazu sagen können. Können Sie mir da ein wenig weiterhelfen ? MfG S.Breinig

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“It didn’t do us any good”: Star Trek Legend Leonard Nimoy Never Forgave a Movie That “Nearly Derailed” the Franchise

T he 1979 film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture,  was quite disappointing for fans of the original series. Although the film kicked off the cinematic run of the franchise, it has been regarded as one of the weaker contenders in the entire series. So much so, that some believe it to have almost ruined the film series’s start altogether.

Leonard Nimoy’s Distain Towards Star Trek: The Motion Picture

In 2005, Leonard Nimoy gave an in-depth interview with TrekMovie , where he touched on the topic of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.  He specifically talked about how the film fits in with the rest of the series. He talked about how Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ended up becoming the real beginning of the series because of the performance of the 1979 project.

The second Star Trek movie put the franchise back on track. The first one derailed us, it didn’t do us any good. Perhaps some people made some money. 

Patrick Stewart: One Marvel Star “Wouldn’t engage with any of us on a social level”, Made it Difficult to Communicate in $67M Star Trek Bomb

Although many did watch it and the film made an impressive amount of money, it was unable to truly establish the essence of the franchise. Not until the second part came around in 1982.

Lenord Nimoy Excludes Star Trek: The Motion Picture  From The Trilogy

Lenord Nimoy then talked about Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in more detail, mentioning how he believed this project to have been the true start of the Star Trek trilogy . When they were making the second film, it was almost obligatory. After making a film of a successful story, it is only natural to make another part.

“I think I stole them”: Marina Sirtis Stole 2 Star Trek Props, One of Which She Ended up Wearing 18 Years Later in ‘Picard’

The second one put us back on track and what happened, unintentionally, we didn’t realize that we were at the beginning of a trilogy. That the three films, II, III and IV, told a story that had and arc to day and they hung together in an interesting way. III was obligatory, we had to get Spock back and IV was the completion of that cycle.

The Star Trek franchise is available for streaming on Paramount+. 

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Star Trek Picard Cast & Character Guide: All 3 Seasons

Wandavision sequel confirmed as first mcu 2026 tv show with top level showrunner, buffy the vampire slayer cast imagined as disney characters (with angel & spike sporting different hair styles).

• Star Trek: Picard actors and creative team celebrate Terry Matalas moving to Marvel Studios to work on Vision series.
• Jeri Ryan, Todd Stashwick, Michelle Hurd, and others congratulate Matalas on his new role with Marvel.
• Excitement and pride shine through reactions from cast members, writers, and key production personnel.

Star Trek: Picard season 3's actors and members of its creative team react to showrunner Terry Matalas jumping to Marvel Studios. Matalas, the acclaimed architect of Star Trek: Picard season 3 , was named showrunner of Marvel's upcoming Vision series , a continuation of WandaVision that stars Paul Bettany as the heroic synthezoid Avenger. Marvel's unnamed Vision series is targeting a 2026 debut on Disney+.

On X, Star Trek: Picard season 3 cast members, writers, and key production personnel congratulated Terry Matalas on his move to Marvel. First is Jeri Ryan, who played Captain Seven of Nine and has been friends with Matalas since t hey both started out together on Star Trek: Voyager :

Todd Stashwick, who played Captain Liam Shaw in Star Trek: Picard season 3 and has been a longtime friend and collaborator of Terry Matalas' since 12 Monkeys offered his excitement:

Michelle Hurd, who played Commander Raffi Musiker and was the only original Star Trek: Picard character to appear in all 3 seasons, is also thrilled for Terry Matalas:

Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut played Lt. Sidney La Forge, the daughter of Commodore Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), in Star Trek: Picard season 3, and here is her reaction:

Star Trek: Picard season 3 co-executive producer Christopher Monfette offered his reaction to Terry Matalas becoming showrunner of Marvel's Vision:

Star Trek: Picard season 3 composer Stephen Barton congratulated Terry Matalas as well:

Star Trek: Picard season 3 art designer Liz Kloczkowski, who headed up the recreation of the iconic USS Enterprise-D's bridge , is also thrilled for Terry Matalas:

Star Trek: Picard season 2 and 3 production designer Dave Blass praises Terry Matalas' 'vision':

Star Trek: Picard season 3's cast includes several new characters and the return of some of the biggest names and iconic characters in Star Trek.

What Terry Matalas Going To Marvel Means For Star Trek: Picard's Potential Spinoff

Things don't look good for star trek: legacy.

Paramount+ never indicated that a spinoff of Star Trek: Picard season 3 was in development at any point, despite popular demand from fans and Picard 's cast and creative team. Star Trek: Picard season 3's ending set up a continuation that was dubbed Star Trek: Legacy set aboard the USS Enterprise-G led by Captain Seven of Nine, and an end-credits scene revealed the return of Q (John de Lancie) to torment Jean-Luc Picard's (Patrick Stewart) son, Ensign Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers). But Star Trek: Legacy was a pie-in-the-sky idea that never became a concrete go-project.

Paramount's pending sale makes future Star Trek projects questionable, although Paramount+ is moving ahead with Star Trek: Section 31 and new seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Starfleet Academy .

Terry Matalas moving on to work on Vision for Marvel Studios means the loss of the primary creative force behind Star Trek: Picard' s spinoff. With Vision targeting a 2026 release date on Disney+, Matalas will be deep in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the next couple of years, at least . Vision 's expected success will likely open more doors at Marvel for Matalas, which could further keep him away from Star Trek . Star Trek: Picard 's spinoff seems unlikely to happen any time in the near future, but this is Star Trek, after all, and there are always possibilities.

Star Trek: Picard season 3 is streaming on Paramount+

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Slow warp —

New warp drive concept does twist space, doesn’t move us very fast, while it won't make a useful spaceship engine, it may tell us more about relativity..

Paul Sutter - May 23, 2024 12:55 pm UTC

A team of physicists has discovered that it’s possible to build a real, actual, physical warp drive and not break any known rules of physics. One caveat: the vessel doing the warping can’t exceed the speed of light, so you’re not going to get anywhere interesting any time soon. But this research still represents an important advance in our understanding of gravity.

Moving without motion

Einstein’s general theory of relativity is a toolkit for solving problems involving gravity that connects mass and energy with deformations in spacetime. In turn, those spacetime deformations instruct the mass and energy how to move. In almost all cases, physicists use the equations of relativity to figure out how a particular combination of objects will move. They have some physical scenario, like a planet orbiting a star or two black holes colliding, and they ask how those objects deform spacetime and what the subsequent evolution of the system should be.

But it’s also possible to run Einstein’s math in reverse by imagining some desired motion and asking what kind of spacetime deformation can make it possible. This is how the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre discovered the physical basis for a warp drive—long a staple of the Star Trek franchise.

The goal of a warp drive is to get from A to B in the time between commercial breaks, which typically involves faster-than-light motion. But special relativity expressly forbids speeds faster than light. While this never bothered the writers of Star Trek , it did irritate Alcubierre. He discovered that it was possible to build a warp drive through a clever manipulation of spacetime, arranging it so that space in front of a vessel gets scrunched up and the space behind the vessel stretched out. This generates motion without, strictly speaking, movement.

It sounds like a contradiction, but that’s just one of the many wonderful aspects of general relativity. Alcubierre’s warp drive avoids violations of the speed-of-light limit because it never moves through space; instead space itself is manipulated to, in essence, bring the spacecraft’s destination closer to it.

While tantalizing, Alcubierre’s design has a fatal flaw. To provide the necessary distortions of spacetime, the spacecraft must contain some form of exotic matter, typically regarded as matter with negative mass. Negative mass has some conceptual problems that seem to defy our understanding of physics, like the possibility that if you kick a ball that weighs negative 5 kilograms, it will go flying backwards, violating conservation of momentum. Plus, nobody has ever seen any object with negative mass existing in the real Universe, ever.

These problems with negative mass have led physicists to propose various versions of “energy conditions” as supplements to general relativity. These aren’t baked into relativity itself, but add-ons needed because general relativity allows things like negative mass that don’t appear to exist in our Universe—these energy conditions keep them out of relativity’s equations. They’re scientists’ response to the unsettling fact that vanilla GR allows for things like superluminal motion, but the rest of the Universe doesn’t seem to agree.

Warp factor zero

The energy conditions aren’t experimentally or observationally proven, but they are statements that concord with all observations of the Universe, so most physicists take them rather seriously. And until recently, physicists have viewed those energy conditions as making it absolutely 100 percent clear that you can’t build a warp drive, even if you really wanted to.

But there is a way around it, discovered by an international team of physicists led by Jared Fuchs at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. (The team is also affiliated with the Applied Propulsion Laboratory of Applied Physics, a virtual think tank dedicated to the research of, among many other things, warp drives.) In a paper accepted for publication in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity , the researchers dug deep into relativity to explore if any version of a warp drive could work.

The equations of general relativity are notoriously difficult to solve, especially in complex cases such as a warp drive. So the team turned to software algorithms; instead of trying to solve the equations by hand, they explored their solutions numerically and verified that they conformed to the energy conditions.

The team did not actually attempt to construct a propulsion device. Instead, they explored various solutions to general relativity that would allow travel from point to point without a vessel undergoing any acceleration or experiencing any overwhelming gravitational tidal forces within the vessel, much to the comfort of any imagined passengers. They then checked whether these solutions adhered to the energy conditions that prevent the use of exotic matter.

The researchers did indeed discover a warp drive solution: a method of manipulating space so that travelers can move without accelerating. There is no such thing as a free lunch, however, and the physicality of this warp drive does come with a major caveat: the vessel and passengers can never travel faster than light. Also disappointing: the fact that the researchers behind the new work don’t seem to bother with figuring out what configurations of matter would allow the warping to happen.

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