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Scientists at the University of Michigan, using a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), are exploring plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) that not only use grid electricity to meet their power needs, but return it to the ...
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Putting electric cars on two-way power street - HULIQ.com

The race to build the first mass-market electric car has unleashed an equally, and perhaps even more, intense contest to produce the battery pack that will power it. McKinsey, the consultancy, estimates that venture-capital investment in battery ...
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Battery developers race to fuel electric cars - Financial Times

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- General Electric Co., the industrial powerhouse that makes everything from jet engines to light bulbs, cut its earnings forecast for the year on Thursday, blaming volatile financial markets that have damaged the profitability ...
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GE cuts forecast, citing wounded financing unit - Associated Press

Brian Sneider, the Engineering Technologies instructor at The Technology Center in Fremont, recently completed a two week training seminar on Electric Vehicle Conversions.  The hands-on class was held at North Central State College's Kehoe Center ...
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A battery electric vehicle uses batteries to power an electric motor that is powered either solely by a battery, or an internal combustion engine and a generator.

Other light personal mobility devices include electric wheelchairs, the Segway HT, electric scooters, motorized bicycles, golf carts and neighborhood electric vehicles. Working electric vehicles include heavy work equipment, fork lifts, and numerous other service and support vehicles. Strictly technology-proving experimental or solar powered vehicles include sun racers, electrathons, the aerial Helios Prototype, and some rocket propulsion systems such as the ion thruster.

History

Electric motive power started with a small railway operated by a miniature electric motor, built by Thomas Davenport in 1835. In 1838, a Scotsman named Robert Davidson built an electric locomotive that attained a speed of four miles an hour. In England a patent was granted in 1840 for the use of rails as conductors of electric current, and similar American patents were issued to Lilley and Colten in 1847. Between 1832 and 1839 (the exact year is uncertain), Robert Anderson of Scotland invented the first crude electric carriage, powered by non-rechargable Primary cells.

By the 20th century, electric cars and trucks in the near future.? However, analysts project that hybrids will capture only 3% of the US market by 2011, primarily due to the higher carnot efficiency through directly oxidising the fuel and by avoiding several unnecessary energy conversions. Furthermore, electro-chemical batteries conversions are easy to reverse, allowing electrical energy to be useful, and it is easier to use electricity to convert the motion to something suitable for the vehicle.