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Here are intensive resources about all facets of vehicles powered by electricity including scientific breakthroughs, advances in industry and state of the art. Information is provided for the home builder of alternative electric vehicles. You may also be interested in some of the electric vehicle insurance and safety related material. We present the latest news and updates on the technology as well as graphical links to websites that contain exactly what you are looking for.Electric Automobile News
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Produced for General Motors - To mark their 100th birthday, GM rolled out what they are calling the "reinvention" of the automobile - the all-electric drive Chevrolet Volt. Produced for General Motors - Fuel cell technology is being put to practice ...Read more
The Volt Electric Car Showcased at GM's 100th Anniversary - WALB 10
The year is 2019. Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or REDS, has appeared in Stockholm, the first city outside of the tropics to see a case. The disease is known to overwhelm local health resources everywhere it goes, and news of health insurance ...Read more
Crowdsourcing the future: Can alternate reality game Superstruct help ... - Venturebeat.com
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a company commercializing proven technologies from NASA and the US Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions, is executing its energy ...Read more
VIASPACE Executing on Clean Energy Product Strategy - Forbes
One of the major sponsors of this year's Wired NextFest at Millennium Park in Chicago (alongside Xerox and Citi), Toyota had plenty to show off. A large portion of the show's rear floor was devoted to a fleet of concept vehicles focused on, like much ...Read more
Toyota's New Plug-In Prius, 1/X Hybrids Shown - PC Magazine
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett 's MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. named Chairman David Sokol to the board of BYD Co., after the U.S. company agreed to buy a stake of about 10 percent in China's biggest rechargeable batteries maker ...Read more
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More about Electric Automobile
In most systems the motion is provided by electric motors. The motion may be provided either by wheels or propellors driven by rotary motors, or in the case of tracked vehicles, by linear motors. The electrical energy used to power the motors may be obtained from a direct connection to land-based generation plants, as is common in electric trains; from chemical energy stored on the vehicle in batteries or diesel fuel; from nuclear energy, on nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers; or more esoteric sources such as flywheels, wind and solar.
The reasons electric motors are used to drive vehicles are their fine control, high efficiency and simple mechanical construction. Electric motors often achieve 90% conversion efficiency over the full range of speeds and power output and can be precisely controlled. Electric motors can provide torque whilst not moving, unlike internal combustion engines, and do not need gears to match power curves. This removes the need for gearboxes, torque convertors and differentials. Electric motors also have the unusual ability to convert movement energy back into electricity, through regenerative braking. This can be used to reduce the wear on brake systems, and reduce the total energy requirement of a journey.
Most electric transport is directly connected to stationary sources of energy through the grid. Due to the extra infrastructure and difficulty in handling arbitrary travel, most directly connected vehicles are owned publicly or by large companies. These forms of transportation are covered in more detail in maglev trains, metros, trams, trains and trolleybuses. A hypothetical electric vehicle design is Personal rapid transit, a cross between cars and trains optimised for independent travel.