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An electric power steering apparatus including an electric motor for outputting assist torque to a steering wheel of a vehicle, and a control unit for controlling thedriving of said electric motor, said control unit comprising: a power main body including a bridge circuit composed of a plurality of semiconductor switching elements for switching a current supplied to said electric motor in accordance with torqueassisting said steering wheel; a control main body that generates a drive signal to control said bridge circuit based on the steering torque of said steering wheel; a metal substrate that is composed of a plurality of insulating layers and a pluralityof conductor layers having wiring patterns respectively formed thereon, said insulating layers and said conductor layers being laminated on a metal plate; connector terminals that are made of an electrically conductive material and are arranged in aperipheral portion of said metal substrate; and metal elements that have one end portions welded to said conductor layers of said metal substrate on which said power main body is mounted, and the other end portions welded to said connector terminals.

Renault-Nissan to build new Brazil car plant-Ghosn

Reuters reported on Sept. 27 that Nissan was expected to announce a $1.5 billion Nissan factory in Brazil and that it might include electric vehicles and involve production of about 220,000 vehicles a year.

Science and Technology Minister Aloisio Mercadante said the government was studying electric vehicles to see if the existing electricity system can handle the needed generation capacity and to avoid simply transferring greenhouse gas emissions from cars in cities to coal-burning electricity plants elsewhere.

Standardization Roadmap for U.S. Electric Vehicle Deployment

ANSI Electric Vehicles Standards Panel Facilitates the Safe, Mass Rollout of EVs and Charging Infrastructure to Help Enable EV Penetration of the Consumer MarketNew York  April 23, 2012

Developed by interests in the automotive, electrotechnical, and utilities industries, as well as from standards developing organizations (SDOs) and government, the Standardization Roadmap is intended to: Facilitate the development of a comprehensive, robust, and streamlined standards and conformance landscape for electric vehicles; and Maximize the coordination and harmonization of the standards and conformance environment domestically and with international partners.

In an apparent compromise, the Environmental Protection Agency capped at 200,000 per maker the number of electric vehicles that could be credited with a 0-gram rating for carbon dioxide (CO2) through 2016. Additional EVs would be charged some responsibility for the CO2 created while producing the electricity to charge them.

particularly in the beginning, when the new cars are likely to be a status-driven product

Least likely to succeed, in his view, are the utility companies. “The utilities have proven over and over to be incompetent at getting consumers the products they need and want,” he says

The creation of the new electric-car infrastructure is likely to have an outsize economic impact

Peugeot has recently announced that its electric car, the i0n, is due to go on sale in the UK by the end of the year. Nissan has created the concept car the Leaf, while Renault has been working on the futuristic Twizy concept car, which will soon be entering the virtual world of The Sims.But behind the scenes researchers in Israel have been working on making hydrogen a viable competitor as an alternative to petrol.