The new 22kW fast-charger fitted to the latest Volvo C30 Electric reduces the vehicle’s full charge time to just 90 minutes. The C30 Electric uses the world’s first on-board charger that operates on a three-phase power supply ...
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The all-electric Nissan Leaf will be the centrepiece of a new electric vehicle taxi pilot launched in New York City. The EV pilot program, launched by Nissan and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will see six Nissan Leaf taxis put ...
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PowerStream and Georgian College say they are collaborating to better understand electric vehicles (EVs) and their charging demands. A new applied research initiative will be conducted by means of a charging station, complemented by solar ...
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BMW appears set to launch a new Chinese sub-brand, according to several reports. Following the partnership between BMW and Chinese car maker Brilliance that formed in 2003, the German manufacturer looks likely to launch a new ...
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The launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) of its Proba-V earth observation mini-satellite in the coming weeks will represent the first time that a European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) will be sent into space. This follows ...
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The Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive will be the first battery-powered electric car the German manufacturer puts into production. Making its debut at the 2013 New York auto show, the new-generation Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive ...
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A hybrid version of the next-generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class was confirmed last month, however the boss of the company's US operations has now revealed exclusively to CarAdvice that the petrol-electric model will offer plug-in charging ...
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APPLE'S ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters. Facebook, while ...
Chinese vehicle manufacturer First Automobile Works (FAW) is planning to invest CNY7.2bn ($1.146bn) in research and development of products in 2013. The total investment by the company during the period of 2011 and 2015 will reach ...
LED headlamps are getting better and more cars are getting them as industry finds its feet with the technology. Right now there are some 20 car models on the road with LED headlamps - some all-LED and some with LED low (dip) beams and ...
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Tesla Motors will postpone the production, and thus deliveries, of the Telsa Model X SUV until later in 2014. The Los Angeles Times reports the delay in production of the Tesla Model X until late 2014 comes on the back of news that the EV ...
The Renault Zoe is a full electric-vehicle with no internal combustion engine. This means that at no time are there any fossil fuels going into a tank, because it doesn’t have one, and emissions aren’t expelled from an exhaust ...
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An Australian launch for the all-electric Renault Zoe is still a possibility if Renault gets its way. Speaking with CarAdvice at the Geneva motor show, Renault Australia boss Justin Hocevar said that while there’s still a lot of ...
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It ought to go without saying that with relatively few public chargers for electric cars, if you have an electric car you ought to be able to plug into any one of them. That wasn't the case last year, when highlighted the challenges EV ...
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Linear Technology has revealed its solution to the thorny problem of active cell balancing in electric and hybrid vehicle batteries. Implemented in the newly-released LTC3300, the topology uses one fly-back transformer per cell and allows ...