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Estrima Birò – Italian Solution to Electric Vehicle Range Anxiety, and Congestion!

Benji Jerew — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:23:34 +0000

For many people, who have been convinced of electric vehicles’ power and torque, not to mention fuel economy and total lack of emissions, range anxiety probably has to be a major tipping point in the conversation whether or not to buy one. The conversation about range anxiety becomes easier once you really sit down and […]

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Sad News: Battery Swapping Company Better Place Goes Bankrupt

Benji Jerew — Mon, 27 May 2013 16:33:04 +0000

Better Place has stuck by its vision of electric vehicles that recharge in minutes, via battery swapping, but there just isn’t enough support for it, be it from automakers or consumers. It seems like a great idea, being able to quickly swap out the traction battery in an electric vehicle in about 10 minutes. Instead […]

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Battery Swapping May Soon Be Implemented by Tesla Motors

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:24:03 +0000

As usual, it all started with a tweet from Elon Musk saying “There is a way for the Tesla Model S to be recharged throughout the country faster than you could fill a gas tank.” What can you understand from that? The usual suspect would be battery swapping. Musk is now thinking that, while they’re […]

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Better Place’s Founder Still Believes in His Dream

Benji Jerew — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:46:18 +0000

Electric vehicles are often tagged with the word “limited,” as in, “limited range” and “limited recharging opportunities,” but this is mostly psychological. Bigger rechargeable battery packs increase range, as high as 300 miles in some cases, and the number fast-charging stations, with recharge times as little as thirty minutes, are becoming more and more common. […]

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Automatic Electric Car Battery Swapping System by Better Place

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:23:46 +0000

I was talking in an earlier article about the possibility of electric car battery swapping systems installed on the roads, instead of gas stations. Mercedes did some testing back in the 70's, and concluded that a battery swapping system was both inefficient and dangerous if it would have been implemented with the technology existing at the time.

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Mercedes Says They Tried EV Battery Swapping and It Didn't Work

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:45:16 +0000

I happen to be an electric car enthusiast. I like the idea of driving clean and having silent power underneath me. It's been talked about project Better Place lately, as being a system who uses a battery swapping infrastructure. IBM and the Danish government have involved in such a project and found it reliable. Mercedes, on the other hand, says they have tested the system in the 70s and found out it's not so safe.

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Very Fast Battery Chargers for Future Electric Vehicles

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:56:23 +0000

Chrysalix Energy invested several million dollars in a Dutch-based maker of ultrafast battery chargers that aim the market of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Epyon B.V.,produced a "supercharge" technology that reduces the charge time of lithium-ion batteries 20 times below the times reached by current chargers.

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Denmark to Replace Gas Tanks With Batteries

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:14:28 +0000

Denmark has a problem. When you’re not like the whole crowd you come from, you’re different and you want to stand up, then you have a problem. Denmark produces a lot more electricity from wind farms than it can consume. In fact, they even want to sell it to Germany and other countries at a […]

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