Museum Autovision is a museum for

cars A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods. The year 1886 is regarded as t ...

motorcycles A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: long-distance travel, commuting, cruising, ...

bicycles A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bic ...

(most of which were built by

NSU Motorenwerke AG NSU Motorenwerke Aktiengesellschaft, AG, or NSU, was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles and pedal cycles, founded in 1873. Acquired by Volkswagen Group in 1969, VW merged NSU with Auto Union, creating Audi NSU Auto Union AG, ultim ...

) and

alternative propulsion An alternative fuel vehicle is a motor vehicle that runs on alternative fuel rather than traditional petroleum fuels (petrol or petrodiesel). The term also refers to any technology (e.g. electric car, hybrid electric vehicles, solar-powered vehi ...

Altlußheim Altlußheim is a municipality in Baden-Württemberg and belongs to Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. Altlußheim sits in the Rhine rift directly on the right bank of a meandering of the Rhine, where the Kriegbach flows into the Rhine. West of the municip ...

, a small town in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. The exhibits include the original equipment from an NSU workshop from the 1920s. The museum also has a display of more than 80

Wankel engine The Wankel engine (, ) is a type of internal combustion engine using an Eccentric (mechanism), eccentric rotary combustion engine, rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion. It was invented by German engineer Felix Wankel, and desi ...

s; on display are also a dozen cars and three bicycles with Wankel engines. This also includes a cut-away model of the

NSU Ro 80 The NSU Ro 80 is a four-door, front-engine executive sedan manufactured and marketed by the West German firm NSU from 1967 until 1977. Noted for innovative, aerodynamic styling by Claus Luthe and a technologically advanced powertrain, the Ro 8 ...

. For owners of electric cars a solar filling station is maintained. Solartankstelle Museum Autovision 3

Science arena

The museum also has metal models that allow car parts such as engine, automatic transmission and differential to be traced, and metal models on power transfer. Finally, boxes are available for scientific experiments with prepared topics. There are about 50 moveable models that allow visitors to conduct interactive

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

experiments under real conditions. Topics include: * Mechanics * Caloric theory (Calorifics) * Optics and acoustics * Magnetism * Electricity * Electrochemistry.

Exhibits

Image:Schnittmodell des NSU Ro 80.JPG, cutaway model of

, made for IAA Image:Hercules Wankel 2000.JPG,

Hercules Wankel 2000 The Hercules W-2000 is a motorcycle which was made by Hercules in Germany. It was the first production motorcycle with a Wankel engine. It was designed in the late 1960s, first shown at a German trade show (Internationale Fahrrad und Motorrad-Aus ...

Image:Linde-Wasserstofftank.JPG, Linde- tank for liquid H2 Image:Wasserstoffeinfüllstutzen eines BMW.jpg, filler neck for hydrogen of a BMW 7 Image:La Jamais Contente Antrieb.JPG, motor of

La Jamais Contente ''La Jamais Contente'' ( en, The Never Contented) was the first road vehicle to go over . It was a Belgian electric car, electric vehicle with a Aluminium alloy, light-alloy torpedo-shaped bodywork and Battery (electricity), batteries. The high ...

Image:Nickel-Cadmium-Batterie.JPG, Nickel-cadmium battery of a

Peugeot Peugeot (, , ) is a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis. The family business that preceded the current Peugeot companies was founded in 1810, with a steel foundry that soon started making hand tools and kitchen equipment, and the ...

electric car Image:ZEBRA-Batterie, Natrium-Nickelchlorid-Batterie .jpg,

Molten salt battery Molten-salt batteries are a class of battery that uses molten salts as an electrolyte and offers both a high energy density and a high power density. Traditional non-rechargeable thermal batteries can be stored in their solid state at room temper ...

Image:Lithium-Ionen-Accumulator.jpg,

Lithium-ion battery A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery which uses the reversible reduction of lithium ions to store energy. It is the predominant battery type used in portable consumer electronics and electric vehicles. It also se ...

Image:1-Liter-VW (525150348).jpg,

Volkswagen 1-litre car The Volkswagen XL1 (VW 1-litre) is a two-person limited production diesel-powered plug-in hybrid produced by Volkswagen. The XL1 car was designed to be able to travel 100 km on 1 litre of diesel (), while being both roadworthy and practical ...

File:Ford Think im Museum Autovision.jpg,

Ford TH!NK In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to conscious cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation. Their most paradigmatic forms are judging, reasoning, concept formation, problem solving, a ...

External links

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