Posts Tagged ‘electric cars’

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    Aluminum-Celmet Could Boost Electric Car Range by 300%
    Japanese company Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI) has developed new material called “Aluminum-Celmet” that could potentially improve efficiency of the electric cars by 1.5 to three times. What gives Aluminum-Celmet its ability to be the basis of highly efficient batteries is its extreme porosity – up to 98 percent. When used as a replacement for the aluminum...
    by at July 18th, 2011 at 07:07 am
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    Report: Renault to Make 200,000 Electric Cars by 2016
    Renault plans to produce more than 200,000 electric cars a year by 2016, French Industry Minister Eric Besson said Wednesday. Answering a deputy’s question in the National Assembly, Besson said 80% of Renault’s electric cars will be produced in France. Renault and Nissan are jointly investing 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion) in electric vehicle technology as...
    by at July 15th, 2011 at 08:07 am
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    Volvo Developing Three Types of Range Extenders for Electric Cars
    Volvo Car Corporation is taking the next step in the company’s electrification strategy by producing test cars with Range Extenders – electric cars that are fitted with a combustion engine to increase their effective range. The projects, supported by the Swedish Energy Agency and the EU, encompass three potential technology combinations. Tests of the various...
    by at July 12th, 2011 at 04:07 am
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    Renault Selects DHL for EV Battery Logistics
    Renault has chosen Germany’s DHL Automotive to manage and distribute replacement batteries for its entire electric car range. DHL has signed a three-year contract to implement a service to coincide with the launch of the first Renault electric cars, Fluence Z.E. and Kangoo Z.E. The three-year deal starts September 1. The partnership does not include battery logistics...
    by at July 1st, 2011 at 06:07 am
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    MINI E Meets 90 percent of Consumers’ Daily Driving Needs
    The BMW Group and the University of California, Davis, today released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users – including over 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010. The report shows that the participants found the cars to be fun yet practical,...
    by at June 13th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
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    Google Adds 71 Level 2 EV Charging Stations at Mountain View Campus
    Google has deployed more than 70 electric car charging stations managed by the ChargePoint Network at its worldwide headquarters in Mountain View, CA. The charging stations are used by employee-owned electric cars, as well as the company’s growing car sharing program for Googlers (GFleet). ”We’ve added 71 new and faster Level 2 chargers to the 150 Level 1 chargers...
    by at June 10th, 2011 at 06:06 am
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    EVs and Hybrids are CO2-Heavy in Production
    Hybrid and electric cars create more carbon emissions during their production than standard vehicles – but are still greener overall, according to a report released by Ricardo. The report highlights the increasing importance of accounting for whole life carbon emissions to compare the greenhouse gas emissions of low carbon vehicles. The report was prepared by Ricardo1for,...
    by at June 8th, 2011 at 11:06 am
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    New MIT Battery Could Make Charging as Quick as Pumping Gas
    Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today published details on a radically new approach to the design of batteries that could provide a lightweight and inexpensive alternative to existing batteries for electric cars and the power grid. In a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, they said the approach has the potential to boost...
    by at June 6th, 2011 at 01:06 pm
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    BYD, Rotterdam Partner on Electric Cars
    BYD and Rotterdam City entered into an agreement to deliver the BYD e6 electric cars as part of Nederland’s green transportation project “75-EV-RO” – the first e6’s in all of Europe. The agreement brings together representatives from each organization to identify opportunities to encourage the use of electric cars. As part of the 75-EV-RO project, the Rotterdam...
    by at May 30th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
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    Nissan Takes Cheap Shot at Chevy Volt in New LEAF Ad
    The Renault-Nissan Alliance has launched a massive advertising campaign called “Gas Powered Everything” using comparisons with internal combustion engine to highlight the advanced technology of its new electric cars. The Nissan LEAF ad begins with a couple waking up in the morning to their alarm clock, which is powered by a gasoline engine with a tiny Mack truck-style...
    by at May 28th, 2011 at 03:05 am
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