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LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Plummeting car sales, climate change, high oil prices and the threat of global recession. The answer? Free electric cars. So says the founder of California-based electric car operator Better Place, Shai Agassi. "Do you want ...Read more
Reuters Summit-Fancy a free (electric) car? - Guardian Unlimited
PARIS - October 2, 2008: In parallel to its new TCe and dCi engine ranges, Renault is furthering its strategy aimed at curbing CO2 emissions with the development of electric vehicles. Since the beginning of 2008, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has ...Read more
Renault Z.E. Concept, An All-Electric Concept Car Which Provides a ... - The Auto Chanel
PARIS (Reuters) - In contrast to its peers, Italy's Fiat (nyse: FIA - news - people ) is keeping quiet about its plans for a hybrid or electric car -- so quiet that it does not even say why it is keeping mum about it. Although Renault (other-otc ...Read more
AUTOSHOW-INTERVIEW-Fiat mum on hybrid, electric plans - Forbes
Francois Mori | Associated Press Renault's ZE Concept electric car is displayed during the second press day of the Paris Motor Show on Friday. The show runs for the public through Oct. 4 - 19. PARIS -- As the race to offer the first commercially ...Read more
Electric cars shine at Paris auto show - Kalamazoo Gazette
PARIS -- Either Renault Executive Vice Chairman Patrick Pelata had too much champagne, or he knows something we don't. At the Paris Motor Show on Thursday, Pelata announced that the French carmaker would build a pure electric version of the Fluence ...Read more
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There are two commonly available electric vehicle designs for automobiles: Battery Electric Vehicles or BEVs, which convert chemical energy to electrical energy, which is then regulated and fed to the drive motors. Chemical energy is the most common independent energy source. Chemical energy is converted to electrical energy, only to convert it back, but flywheels need to spin very fast to store enough energy to be stored in chemical form.
Despite the higher efficiency, electro-chemical vehicles have many technical issues which prevent them from replacing the more cumbersome heat engines. Heat engines have been easier to scale up, with the largest electrical generators always being driven by heat engines. Fuel cells are fragile, sensitive to contamination, and require external reactants such as hydrogen. Batteries require highly refined and unstable chemicals that could be harmful to the environment and must be recycled to minimize their impact and maximize their sustainability through material reuse. Both have lower energy and power density than heat engines. For especially large electric vehicles, namely 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, electric automobiles held many vehicle land speed and distance records in the early 1900s. They were produced by Anthony Electric, Baker Electric, Detroit Electric, and others and at one point in history out-sold gasoline-powered vehicles.