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EADS demonstrating electric and hybrid aviation propulsion; innovative distributed propulsion series hybrid

Green Car Congress

The aft main wheel is driven by a 6 kW electric motor providing power for taxiing and acceleration up to 60 km/h (37 mph) during take-off, reducing overall electrical power consumption in day-to-day operation. The embedded wake re-energizing fan is designed to capture the wake energy by re-accelerating the complex wake.

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Udaipur to Himachal : 923 km in an electric car

Plug In India

A distance of 923 km using DC fast charging infrastructure. We then went on to do a slow charge upto 100%. Was 2000 hrs by then. We had to charge it to 100 percent - and decided that we will come down after an hour to switch off the connection. There was a power outage at 2145 hrs and the charging stopped.