Posts Tagged ‘electric cars’

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    Nissan Developing 10 Minute Electric Car Charger
    Nissan and researchers from Japan’s Kansai University have announced that they’ve been working on the technology to make it possible to charge the batteries of the electric cars in just ten minutes, much faster than the fastest charger at the moment. This ability to charge so quickly comes by changing the electrode inside a capacitor from carbon to tungsten oxide and...
    by at October 11th, 2011 at 03:10 am
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    Breakthrough In Electric Cars Not Expected For Another Decade
    European automotive executives are confident that Europe will become the first mass market for electric cars, according to a new research conducted by Ernst & Young. Ernst & Young surveyed the opinion of over 300 European automotive leaders to reveal that the on average they believe that the electric car market will reach a critical mass by 2022. Europe is expected...
    by at October 10th, 2011 at 06:10 am
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    Crash-safe Battery Protection for Electric Cars
    Scientists from Fraunhofer Institute have replaced a battery box for lithium-ion batteries with a lightweight component, that not only save weight and sustain no damage in an accident, but for the first time ever, it can also be mass-produced. If an electric car wants to be environmentally friendly it must weigh as little as possible, because when the light turns green...
    by at October 5th, 2011 at 11:10 am
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    Student-Built Electric Car Sets Land Speed Record at Salt Flats
    An electric car designed and built by BYU engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class, averaging 155.8 mph over its two required qualifying runs, one of which was clocked at 175 mph. The milestone marks the end of a seven-year quest of more than 130 students, led by Perry Carter, who just retired as an associate professor. In land speed racing...
    by at October 4th, 2011 at 09:10 pm
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    Renault to Provide 15,600 Electric Cars to French State
    Renault has been awarded a prestigious contract to supply of 15,600 electric cars to the French state and to the state-owned postal service, according to a French newspaper report. Renault won the largest part of a 25,000 electric cars public contract. It will supply 10,000 vehicles to France’s postal service La Poste and 5,600 additional units to other public administrations. Deliveries...
    by at October 2nd, 2011 at 04:10 am
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    GE, Nissan Team Up to Boost Electric Car Adoption
    GE and Nissan have signed a two-year research collaboration to speed up the development of a reliable, robust smart charging infrastructure to fuel mass market adoption of electric cars. GE and Nissan have identified two key focus areas for the research efforts. The first relates to the integration of electric cars with homes and buildings. The second looks at electric...
    by at October 1st, 2011 at 01:10 am
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    GE, GM Team Up on Electric Cars in China
    General Electric and General Motors are partnering to jointly accelerate the deployment of electric car charging infrastructure in China. The companies have signed an agreement to better develop the EV charging infrastructure in Shanghais metropolitan area. The two companies agreed to install GE’s WattStation and DuraStation charging systems at a government-assigned...
    by at September 22nd, 2011 at 09:09 pm
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    BRUSA to Provide Electric Drivetrains for Volvo C30 Electric Cars
    BRUSA Elektronik has secured an order for more than 250 drivetrain system to power Volvo C30 Electric cars, with more possibly in the pipeline depending on market interest. Volvo C30 Electric is built on the regular assembly line in the Ghent plant and then transported to Gothenburg for installation of the motor, batteries and other model-specific electronics. The C30...
    by at September 22nd, 2011 at 11:09 am
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    GM, SAIC to Co-develop Electric Cars in China
    General Motors and its Chinese joint-venture partner SAIC Motor Corp. signed an agreement today in Shanghai to develop parts and vehicle platforms for electric cars in China. The Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) – SAIC and GM’s engineering and design joint venture in Shanghai – will serve as the development center for the new electric car architecture....
    by at September 20th, 2011 at 09:09 am
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    Hyundai to Focus on Plug-in Hybrid and Fuel-Cell Vehicles, Leave EVs to Kia
    Hyundai will no longer develop and produce pure electric vehicles in any great volume, Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group vice chairman Yang Woong-chul Yang said during a press briefing at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Hyundai will focus on plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, while affiliate Kia Motors will focus on electric cars and will start selling a box-shaped...
    by at September 19th, 2011 at 09:09 am
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