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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 Car Engine News
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Far away from the complex merger negotiations and dicey political maneuvering (BusinessWeek.com, 10/28/08) that promise to reshape America's largest automaker, General Motors ( GM ), design director Bob Boniface is coolly contemplating the company's ...Read more
Can the Chevy Volt Save GM? - BusinessWeek
The Chevrolet Volt will be the American automobile giant's second attempt at producing an electric-powered car, a decade after the debacle of the shelved CV1 project. PARIS - John Lauckner, General Motors Vice President for Global Program Management ...Read more
The car that could make or break GM - Haaretz.com
High-profile electric car company Tesla Motors has a bit of a money problem, but CEO Elon Musk says he has a plan. In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Musk said he expects to raise more than $20 million in the next week to bolster its cash ...Read more
Green Tech - CNET News
One of the best things about moving to Los Angeles from North Carolina was discovering the outrageous cadre of TV weathermen with vaguely meteorological-sounding names: Dallas Raines, Johnny Mountain, Fritz Coleman. If I were a weatherman I would ...Read more
Acura TL SH-AWD: High-tech, hard-cornering - Seattle Times
Hyundai Kia Motor announced on the 28th its plans to develop a hybrid vehicle powered by a gasoline engine and an electric motor by 2010. The new model, sequent to the Sonata (Development Project Code YF), will be introduced in the North American ...Read more
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Automobile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe interest in hybrid and electric cars continues to grow, especially since gasoline has gotten so expensive. Most people just canít afford to travel as much due to the added ... |
The Hybrid Cars Blog » Quiet And Efficient: An Electric Car EngineGreenCar.com covers hybrid and electric cars, alternative ... Visit Green Car to find the best hybrids as technology ... Multiple performance levels, engines, and body styles make ... |
Electric Cars & Hybrid Cars | Green Car .comAn electric car is a type of alternative fuel car that utilizes electric motors and motor controllers instead of an internal combustion engine (ICE). |
Electric car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaCars.com experts answer reader questions about new cars. ... Technically, electric cars don’t have engines; they have motors. As much as we hear motor and engine used ... |
What kind of engine does an electric car have? - Ask.cars.comSo, essentially, what you have is an electric car with an integrated "range-extending" engine that is envisioned to run on both gasoline and ethanol, though whether it will do so ... |
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Future
The future was unclear because of the low range and small lifespan of the batteries. But there are several developments which could bring back electric vehicles outside of their current field of application -- namely operational yards and indoor operation. The first improvement[1] was to decouple the electric motor from the battery through electronic control while employing ultra-capacitors to buffer large but short power demands and recuperable braking energy. The development of new cell types compared with intelligent cell management improved both weak points mentioned above. The cell management is not only able to monitor the health of the cells but by having a redundant cell configuration (one cell more than needed) and a sophisticated switched wiring it is possible to condition one cell after the other while the rest are on duty. Perhaps the most important point is that a monovalent operation (electric only) is no longer considered dogma. The use of fuel cells instead of internal combustion engines can create propulsion systems that are nearly emissions-free (regarding local emissions). In an electric drive vehicle, the torque is supplied to the wheels by an electric motor is equivalent to taking up to 170 cars off the road.
Airport and seaport ground support
Airports across the United States are turning to electric ground support equipment and jet way power to reduce their overall emissions. Airport electric technologies include baggage tugs to convey baggage between the terminal and aircraft; baggage belt loaders to load and unload bags from the aircraft; air stairs for passenger access to the aircraft; wheelchair lifts; and pushback tractors to move the aircraft away from the terminal once passengers are on board. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena (Bob Hope) Airport in 2005 inaugurated a $1.3 million system of 42 battery chargers for electric ground service equipment (eGSE) at all 14 airline gates of Bob Hope Airport. The airport authority president noted that the airport?s installation of the chargers, and Southwest?s rapid conversion to their use, places Bob Hope Airport at the forefront of reducing air pollution from ground support equipment.