Posts Tagged ‘Range Extender’

  • 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
  • PGE First to Receive Raser E-REV Trucks by End of 2010
    PG&E will be the first company in the U.S. to take delivery of Raser’s new extended range electric (E-REV) fleet trucks, designed to achieve an average of 100 miles per gallon in typical daily driving when recharged at night from a typical household outlet. The extended range electric pick-up truck can drive the first 40 miles on powerful lithium-ion batteries. It...
    by at July 27th, 2010 at 08:07 am
  • Lotus Range Extender Engine Heading for Series Production
    A collaboration between Lotus Engineering and Fagor Ederlan will develop the Lotus Range Extender Engine for series production. Lotus Engineering, the automotive consultancy division of Lotus Cars Limited,  and Fagor Ederlan, part of the Mondragon Corporation Cooperativa, the biggest co-operative group in the world, have completed a joint technical and market study analysing...
    by at June 22nd, 2010 at 09:06 am
  • FEV Introduces Fiat 500 LiiON Drive in Vienna
    FEV Motorentechnik has introduced the Fiat 500 LiiON Drive with Wankel Range Extender Vehicle Ride & Drive at the last week’s Vienna Motor Symposium. The FEV vehicle was driven by many of the over one thousand delegates attending the symposium, providing a chance for delegates to test the vehicle under real driving conditions in the Vienna city centre. The two-day...
    by at May 13th, 2010 at 02:05 am
  • GETRAG Develops Boosted Range Extender
    The GETRAG Corporate Group has developed a cost-effective electric drive train architecture that combines and even outperforms the advantages of conventional drive trains, hybrid drives and state of the art electric drives. GETRAG will present its newly developed Boosted Range Extender at this year’s international trade fair for manufacturing technology and automation,...
    by at February 21st, 2010 at 02:02 pm