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Colin Bennett

German Hybrids Arrive, With Big Engines and Big Price Tags - 0 views

www.hybridcars.com/...-and-big-price-tags-26240.html

hybrid

shared by Colin Bennett on 20 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • With the ML 450 Hybrid and the BMW ActiveHybrid X6, German carmakers have arrived to the hybrid party with keg-sized jugs of expensive stuff. Unfortunately, the most exciting green car party has already moved on to plug-in hybrids and electric cars with much greater potential to reduce fuel use and emissions.
Colin Bennett

A new segmentation for electric vehicles - 0 views

www.mckinseyquarterly.com/...ion_for_electric_vehicles_2464

electric car segmentation

shared by Colin Bennett on 19 Nov 09 - Snapshot

  • Global carmakers are trying to define a future market for electric vehicles. To reach beyond affluent, environmentally conscious, or technically enamored buyers, these companies will need to develop products that satisfy the consumers’ main concern—good value for money. Given the current cost of energy storage, that is a considerable challenge.



    A recent McKinsey study suggests that one way companies can achieve this goal would be to focus on tailoring battery-powered vehicles to the actual driving missions of specific consumers—that is, to the way they use their vehicles.

Colin Bennett

Electrification Coalition Publishes Roadmap to Promote Advancement of Electric Vehicles - 1 views

www.cleanedge.com/...story.php

electric

shared by Colin Bennett on 18 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • More than a dozen business leaders -- including Carlos Ghosn,
    President & CEO of Nissan Motor Company; David W. Crane, President
    & CEO of NRG Energy; and Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President
    & CEO of FedEx Corporation -- came together recently to form the
    Electrification Coalition. The Coalition is a nonpartisan,
    not-for-profit organization committed to promoting policies and
    actions that
    will facilitate the deployment of electric vehicles on a mass scale in
    order to combat the economic, environmental, and national security
    vulnerabilities caused by our nation's dependence on petroleum.
Colin Bennett

Nissan develops silicon carbide inverter - 0 views

www.powermanagement-europe.com/showArticle.jhtml

silicon carbide

shared by Colin Bennett on 10 Nov 09 - Snapshot
  • MUNICH, Germany — With the development of an inverter based on silicon carbide diodes, Japanese car manufacturer Nissan aims at better efficiency at smaller form factors. The inverters will be used in hybrid drive cars as well as in all-electric vehicles and in cars powered by fuel cells.
Colin Bennett

Test Drive: Volvo V70 and C30EV Show Battery-Powered Promise : Gas 2.0 - 0 views

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permanent magnet

shared by Colin Bennett on 20 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • In the back, however, is a 12-kilowatt-hour, U.S.-made EnerDel lithium-ion battery pack that powers a 70-hp permanent-magnet AC motor with 162 lb-ft of torque driving the rear wheels. That, according to Volvo, is enough to propel this 4433-pound charabanc on electric-only power for a maximum of 31 miles, enough to cover over 75 percent of daily European commuting.
Colin Bennett

Power Electronics could make Hybrid Cars Cheaper - 0 views

www.alternative-energy-news.info/could-make-hybrid-cars-cheaper

hybrid

shared by Colin Bennett on 05 Oct 09 - Snapshot
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    Colin Bennett on 05 Oct 09
     
    "A research group "Future Automotive Power Electronics" headed by senior scientist Jürgen Biela, is working towards the converters. Plesko is focusing on a mechanism that integrates the inverter, the DC/DC converter and the electric motor functionally. By combining the functions of the drive and the DC/DC converter, certain electronic constituents and the motor lamination stack can be shared. If we angle it from a manufacturers' point of view we will see that large quantities of such functionally integrated systems will be cheaper as smaller number raw materials are required. Moreover, Plesko's design is less complex, making it easier to produce."
Colin Bennett

Magnets Offer Advantages As An Alternative To Mechanical Gears - 0 views

www.engineerlive.com/...22078

power transmission magnet

shared by Colin Bennett on 01 Oct 09 - Snapshot
  • Magnetic components are the norm in electric motors and non-contact drive couplings, but new developments could see magnets taking the place of mechanical gears in power transmission systems. Paul Stevens reports on novel magnet-based power transmission components and the advantages they offer designers.
Colin Bennett

Alternatives To Four-stroke Engines Promise An Increase In Efficiency - 0 views

www.engineerlive.com/...22066

energy efficiency engine

shared by Colin Bennett on 16 Sep 09 - Snapshot
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    Colin Bennett on 16 Sep 09
     
    What, then, are the innovations in internal combustion engine design that will carry us through the next decade or so, meeting the need to increase efficiency and reduce emissions? For one, earlier this year the Scuderi Group unveiled a proof-of-concept prototype split-cycle engine. The new engine, which its designers claim has the ability to revolutionise the long-term viability of the internal combustion engine, was unveiled as a naturally aspirated one-litre petrol unit (Fig.1). Scuderi Group expects it to produce up to 80 per cent fewer toxins than a typical internal combustion engine and, when fully developed with turbocharged and air-hybrid components, to achieve significant gains in fuel efficiency.
Colin Bennett

Hybrid Vehicles and Components Report - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...S100818+10-Sep-2009+BW20090910

switch reluctant

shared by Colin Bennett on 15 Sep 09 - Snapshot
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    Colin Bennett on 15 Sep 09
     
    * Switch reluctance machines
Colin Bennett

Driven by logic - 0 views

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Neodymium

shared by Colin Bennett on 15 Sep 09 - Snapshot
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    Colin Bennett on 15 Sep 09
     
    Each electric Prius motor requires one kilogram of neodymium, and each battery uses 10-15kg of lanthanum. The improved plug-in version being tested in New Zealand next year needs twice as much.
Colin Bennett

Are Lithium Car Batteries Overhyped? | Hybrid Cars - 0 views

www.hybridcars.com/...batteries-overhyped-26105.html

battery

shared by Colin Bennett on 14 Sep 09 - Snapshot
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    Colin Bennett on 14 Sep 09
     
    Toyota believes that lithium batteries do not justify the higher cost, and that current hybrid battery technology-nickel metal hydride-is best suited for conventional hybrids. The company came to that conclusion after conducting three years of "secret tests" on 126 Toyota Priuses equipped with lithium ion batteries, according to Bloomberg.
Colin Bennett

New Hope for Hydrogen Storage - 0 views

www.alternative-energy-news.info/new-hope-for-hydrogen-storage

hydrogen

shared by Colin Bennett on 11 Sep 09 - Snapshot
  • Colin Bennett
    Colin Bennett on 11 Sep 09
     
    It seems simple but if put it into practice then we can develop real potential for hydrogen fuels. A new method of "recycling" hydrogen-containing fuel materials could pave the way for commercially viable hydrogen-based vehicles. An article published in world's leading chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, makes a claim about recycling hydrogen-containing fuel materials. Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Alabama researchers working within the U.S. Department of Energy's Chemical Hydrogen Storage Center of Excellence express a noteworthy progress in hydrogen storage science.
Colin Bennett

Germany signs up to hydrogen infrastructure project | Energy Efficiency News - 0 views

www.energyefficiencynews.com/...2391

hydrogen

shared by Colin Bennett on 11 Sep 09 - Snapshot
  • Colin Bennett
    Colin Bennett on 11 Sep 09
     
    The German Government and leading energy companies and vehicle manufacturers have signed up to a project to investigate a potential nationwide hydrogen infrastructure.
Colin Bennett

Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid - Review | Hybrid Cars - 0 views

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hybrid

shared by Colin Bennett on 10 Sep 09 - Snapshot
  • Colin Bennett
    Colin Bennett on 10 Sep 09
     
    When President Obama visited Southern California Edison's electric vehicle test facility in March, he used the Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid as the main prop for the photo op. The president spoke in soaring tones about America's energy challenges, green jobs, and the cars of tomorrow-but the expression on his face in the PR photo was disbelief if not outright disapproval.
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