Posts Tagged ev
Better Place: Electric Car Battery Swapping Service Envisioning Worldwide Expansion
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Car industry, Efficient engines on July 16, 2010
You may have probably heard of Project Better Place before – it’s the business led by Shai Agassi that imposes itself a truly hard to get goal: to make a network of battery swapping and charging stations for the not-so-distant electric cars.
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EV Bike Girl Wants to Build 400 mph "KillaJoule" Electric Motorcycle
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on June 16, 2010
Eva HÀkansson, the daughter of Sven HÀkansson, who in the 1960s designed and rode his own championship-winning bike, and the wife of Bill Dubé, the man behind Killacycle, the world’s fastest electric vehicle (bike), wants to make her own motorcycle with an aerodynamic shape that would beat all the world records.
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BBC Show To Broadcast 4,000-mile Europe Tour in a Think Electric Car
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on June 8, 2010
Media has influenced people’s minds since its birth. That’s why BBC, one of the largest media trusts worldwide, is trying to resuscitate the idea using an electric car in the minds of those who thought they could only fuel with gasoline. The documentary will be called “BBC Electric Ride”, and will be broadcast on Radio 4 starting June 19.
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Holland to Have Europe's First Commercial EV Charging Station in Leeuwarden (Preparing for LEAF?)
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on May 27, 2010
Holland has been targeted as the first European country that will sell Nissan’s Leaf, the first mass-produced electric car with an affordable price (under $30,000). It is logical, then, that Holland is also the first European country to adopt fast-charging EV stations.
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Japanese Joint Venture Proposes EVs as Buffer for Nighttime Excess Wind Power
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles, Energy news on May 12, 2010
As electric vehicles seem to increase their market share in the next few years, alternative energy companies think of methods to store the excess power produced during the night, when electricity utilities don’t buy their energy, because of reduced consumption.
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Volkswagen Test Drives Golf Blue E-Motion Electric Car on The Streets of Berlin
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on May 4, 2010
Not wanting to stay behind their competition (such as Renault-Nissan), Volkswagen is beginning to develop pure electric cars. Their new Golf Blue e-motion has been presented by Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, member of VW’s development board, and the German minister of transportation.
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Metallic Catalysts Could Increase the Efficiency of Li-Air Batteries Three Fold
Posted by Cristi in Energy Storage on April 7, 2010
The MIT researchers could easily change the balance towards Li-air batteries in the near future just by changing the actual electrode materials. In the paper published in the journal Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, the researchers showed that by changing the carbon electrodes with gold or platinum electrodes as a catalyst, the efficiency of the battery will increase.
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Small Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Show Potential in Central and Eastern Europe
Posted by Cristi in Electric Vehicles on March 7, 2010
Nobody would have ever though that Central and Eastern Europe would have the technology or financial resources to build a super car or a zero emission vehicle. This is why we are now astonished as the Hungarian company called Antro developed a hybrid car that is also able to run on solar power.
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EMC Launches Affordable Electric Vehicle Based on Dacia Logan
Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Electric Vehicles on February 7, 2010
The world’s first electric Pick-up, EMC (Electric Motor Cars), built on a Dacia Logan platform, brought to the U.S. by Envision Motor Co., has been presented by Des Moines Motors, an ex-Chrysler dealer.
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Panasonic to Equip Tesla Motors' Future EVs With Their Batteries
Posted by Cristi in Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage on January 12, 2010
Just few days ago, Tesla Motors announced that they will start the collaboration with Panasonic for the development of the next generation battery cells for the EV.
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Protoscar Makes Waves Before Geneva Motor Show With Lampo II Electric Vehicle
Posted by Cristi in Electric Vehicles on January 6, 2010
Switzerland can finally brag with their most expensive sports car: Protoscar has just finished the development and manufacturing of a 1 million Euro electric sports car prototype called Lampo.
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New Hope for EVs: Bolivia Holding World's Richest Lithium Field
Posted by Cristi in Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage on December 25, 2009
As the automotive industry has oriented itself towards green energy usage, the need of a “supreme” alternative resource is obvious. And what is more obvious is the demand of Electric Vehicles. EVs need to store their energy in batteries: mainly Lithium-Ion batteries. As of this particular reason, Lithium seems to be one of the most searched resource.
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GM Cancels the 53mpg Hybrid Chevrolet and Proceeds to PHEVs
Posted by Cristi in Car industry on December 22, 2009
Even though electric vehicles seem to be the future, some car manufacturers do not rush into changing to green, alternative energy sources. There is some incertitude when it comes to changing so fast from fossil fuels and some automakers just take their time to see what is best for the market.
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New York's First EV Charging Station by Beautiful Earth Group
Posted by Cristi in Car industry, Electric Vehicles on December 21, 2009
Lately the automotive industry had directed its attention to the Electric Vehicle market and to the green energy usage. But if the electric energy that will power the EV is obtained from fossil fuels the EV won’t be green anymore. Because of that particular reason several solar-powered charging stations were developed lately to help EV use alternative energy.
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