Farther? Faster? More ecological? No electric car drives 1,000 km in 8:21 hours! Yes, it does! If its name is QUANTiNO and it runs on a fuel cell. Lire la suite…
Flow Cell Power – 1,000 km in 8:21 Hours
Smart charging in UK
SSE trials ‘demand-side response’ where vehicles start charging a few hours after being plugged in, when demand is lower. theguardian.com
RENAULT OPTIMIZES THE LIFECYCLE OF ITS ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERIES
An affordable electric roadster
Vancouver’s Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corporation (EMV) announced from the Vancouver Auto Show (held at the Vancouver Convention Center from March 28 through April 2) two new electric vehicles.
The first one is a roadster (which kinda reminds us of a Miata), the Tofino with 250 miles (400 km) of range, a 125 mph (200 km/h) top speed and 0-60 mph under seven seconds.
The Electra Meccanica Tofino is scheduled for market launch in 2019 for $50,000 CAD (which is around $37,000 US). Lire la suite…
Italian Company Offers Awesome Looking Electric Motorcycle
The Italian Volt is forecast as a bespoke electric roadster built to customer specs.
Spearheaded by industry veterans Nicola Colombo, Valerio Fumagalli, and Adriano Stellino, the Volt “is completely modifiable to design a unique motorbike. Italian Volt is conceived to be the personal creation of its own rider, working as a sort of design canvas for a tailor-made riding high class experience.” Lire la suite…
Honda NeuV: Electric car and Artificial Intelligence
Designed to create new possibilities for customers, the NeuV (pronounced “new-v”), which stands for New Electric Urban Vehicle, is a concept vehicle whose genesis is based on the fact that privately-owned vehicles sit idle 96 percent of the time. Lire la suite…
Who says pure electric can’t mean pure excitement?
Specifications:
Battery 220 kWh (autonomy over 600 miles)
0-100 km/h: <5 seconds
Max speed: 190 km/h
Torque: 707 Nm
Power: 200 kW (two 130 kW electric motors for the rear wheels, total system power stands at 200 kW)
GM and Honda team up on fuel cell systems
General Motors Co. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. equally split $85 million in investment to expand their fuel-cell partnership into a new manufacturing venture in southeast Michigan, the companies announced Monday. Lire la suite…
Report on EVs from Chargepoint
The US company Chargepoint has issued its 2016 report on EV and EV charging. What can be interesting for us in Europe is the identification of 4 types of drivers, the market split BEV/PHEV, and where EV are most charged.
A key point to note is that having EV charging available at work makes employees 20 times more likely to drive electric.
Battery prices falling fast
More than half of car buyers know little about electric cars, if anything
In the six years since modern electric cars went on sale in large numbers, educating the public has been one of the greatest challenges for advocates of plug-in cars.
Those efforts still have a long way to go, it seems.
Electric cars have become more common over the past few years, but more than half of car buyers still know very little about them—if anything at all. Lire la suite…
Batteries with Endless Lifespan?
A new solid electrolyte lithium battery has the potential for an endless lifespan and improved capacity (range). Lire la suite…
European-wide survey shows the motivations for electric vehicle use in 2017
Early EV adopters in Europe are males over 41 y.o. (82%), 59% are recycling all household waste, 39% have solar panels installed at their homes, 23% compost and 22% collect rain water. 57% use their EV to commute to work.
70% want to see some form of Airb’n’b for EVs, allowing users more freedom to offer their neighbours the ability to hire their EV.
60% want to see automated charge points with display screens that provide them with how much energy they are using and how far their vehicle will travel.