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:: 11 March, 2010
This week, Ford announced that its first all electric vehicle will be the Transit Connect van EV, promised for 2010. (photo above). They join forces for this new product to the British company Smith Electric Vehicles already well established, and...
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:: 11 March, 2010
For those who have read my previous entries, you know that the Car of Tomorrow (2030) is a hybrid electric pluggable. In what follows, you will see that when this car will run fuel mode, after exhausting the grid electricity stored in its battery,...
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:: 08 March, 2010
ILLUSTRATION - The ancestor of buses bottle Gyrobus the company Oerlikon, used in Switzerland in the early 1950s. The electrical energy gained during the 70 seconds to recharge every 2 km accumulated in a flywheel. The illustration is the cover...
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:: 08 March, 2010
Illustration - Representation of a motor-wheel similar to those developed by the team of Pierre Couture Hydro-Quebec and presented to the public in 1994. The author of this blog has drawn from public information contained in sales literature and...
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:: 08 March, 2010
ILLUSTRATION - Artistic Vision of monorail motor-wheels designed by Pierre Couture in Las 1990s, drawn from my recent book Driving without oil. (Drawing: Paul Berryman)
The author of this blog has lived in France for two years know how the...
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:: 07 March, 2010
Hyundai plans to show off its Blue-Will hybrid concept to North America during the 2010 Detroit auto show next week. The Blue-Will debuted in Seoul last March, but the visit to Detroit will be the first time we’ve seen the concept in person.
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:: 07 March, 2010
Biodiesel technology is low on the list of priorities for auto industry
research, according to a global survey of 200 senior auto executives conducted
by KPMG that was released Thursday.
When asked to rate which were the most...
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:: 06 March, 2010
Carlos Ghosn, the head of the Nissan-Renault alliance, isn't impressed with competitors' chatter about electric vehicles. They have concept cars. He has a plan.
Custom carmaker Rinspeed presented an electric city car concept, and Tesla...
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:: 06 March, 2010
Whether it was delivering packages via locomotive or launching 3,000 letters inside a guided missile, the U.S. Postal Service has always pushed the envelope when it comes to transportation.
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:: 04 March, 2010
ILLUSTRATION - Group traction pluggable hybrid car motor-wheels designed by Pierre Couture of the Research Institute of Hydro-Quebec, and whose first prototype was presented in 1994. To learn more click HERE and download the free episode "The...
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:: 04 March, 2010
ILLUSTRATION - Comparison between the chain of processing and distribution of energy for vehicles with hydrogen-CAP, right, and the chain for battery electric vehicles, left. The PAC-Car Hydrogen consume 3 times more electricity than electric cars...
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:: 02 March, 2010
Volkswagen is intent on becoming the world’s leading automaker by 2018 and that means being the top dog in every segment, including hybrid and electric vehicles. Recently the automaker announced plans to start building its own electric...
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:: 02 March, 2010
Ford plans to unveil an electric vehicle strategy for Europe today designed to help the automaker diversify its vehicle lineup so that between 10% and 25% of its global vehicle sales can come from hybrid or electric vehicles by 2020.
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:: 02 March, 2010
Since 2008, T. Boone Pickens, a multibillion oil and natural gas, is talked about with his plan, the map Pi cken, to reduce oil imports from the United States using natural gas from far and vehicles engine specially adapted, as the Honda Civic GX....
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:: 25 February, 2010
Almost £8m in public funding has been set aside to roll-out electric vehicle charging points across North East.
The investment, which comes via regional development agency One North East and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV)...
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:: 25 February, 2010
A scheme to provide charging points for electric vehicles across the north-east of England is to be expanded with a £2.9m government grant.
Regional development Agency One North East and car manufacturer Nissan pledged in December to...
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:: 24 February, 2010
Would you buy a 136-horsepower Mercedes-Benz? What if it were powered by hydrogen fuel cells? Are you so committed to green-car technology that, besides the six-figure price tag, you would put up with zero-to-60 mile-per-hour times of more than 11...
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:: 24 February, 2010
South Seattle Community College, in partnership with the Seattle Electric Vehicle Association, is offering a number of non-credit electric vehicle classes, including a six-day Electric Vehicle Conversionworkshop. Taught by a group of experienced...
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:: 23 February, 2010
BMW officials have confirmed their intention to produce an electric vehicle. The car will be sold under another logo but will be built alongside the 1 Series and X1 in Leipzig.
The Germans at BMW have said they will build an...
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:: 23 February, 2010
It's not often that a press event at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting features a car. But the car that was driven into the press room today was an electric one, with some added communications skills: it could talk...
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