Sep

15

The Automotive Generator Set Competition Starts Here

September 15, 2009 | 8 Comments

Lotus Engineering, a division of Lotus, one of the world’s renowned automotive consultants unveiled its Range Extender Engine at the 63rd Frankfurt International Motor Show.  Used in series hybrid vehicles, Range Extender Engines are coupled to an electrical generator to provide a highly efficient source of energy to power the electric motor directly or charge [...]

Aug

21

Simulating Carbon Ultracapacitor Performance in Cars

August 21, 2009 | 9 Comments

With the bulk of the energy issues centered on transport fuels sourced from oil, excepting the pollution and CO2 matter that coal offers, the pressure has mounted on the major oil use – worldwide personal transport vehicles, the dream realized by many and desired by many many more. When someone critically views the impacts that [...]

May

22

The Tipping Point For Electric Drives is Near

May 22, 2009 | 4 Comments

In the UK where driving distances and range expectations are shorter engineers are beginning to think that electric drive with battery sets are fully viable market prospects. Such a conclusion relies on some important lessons and reveals the obvious problems. The problem list is short, but significant. The range issue is foremost due to battery [...]

May

8

A Fusion for 1,445 Miles on a Tank of Gas

May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

It wasn’t even a tanker truck either. A Ford Fusion hybrid could have been the new record holder for the pure stock “hypermiling” distance record with 15 more miles and would be the record holder for the gasoline powered mid-sized sedan had the Guinness Book of Records showed up. So Ford gets to bask in [...]

Feb

10

Raser Tech’s Hybrid Drive Is Going On Road

February 10, 2009 | 6 Comments

Raser Technologies, Inc., a NYSE traded firm (RZ) announced it has released a video news report updating shareholders and the public on its progress to complete the full-sized SUV plug-in hybrid electric (PHEV) demonstration vehicle incorporating the Company’s Symetron technologies. Working in conjunction with FEV and a yet to be named global auto manufacturer, they [...]

Dec

4

Charging Up Cars May Mean Saving the Auto Industry

December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

A year or so ago the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a federal energy lab, found that 73% of the nation’s light vehicles could be recharged with the existing utility infrastructure if the vehicles were plugged in overnight. Such a shift from gasoline to electricity as a primary transportation fuel could displace an estimated 6.2 million [...]

Aug

19

A Look A Lithium Accumulators

August 19, 2008 | 11 Comments

Many of us are familiar with accumulators in gas and hydraulic systems as a vessel that stores a volume usually with an internal diaphragm that has a spring force by a compressed gas. The result is a cell that can buffer the system gases or fluids smoothing pressure spikes. As a practical point though, a [...]

Aug

13

Research For Teaching How To Buy Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles

August 13, 2008 | 4 Comments

John Axsen and Ken Kurani at the University of California’s Institute of Transportation Studies completed what may become a landmark in getting good handles on the personal vehicles available for purchase in the coming years in the form of plugin hybrid electric vehicles. (A pdf download) What the study learned is the state of consumer [...]

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