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A wood-burning EV charger? – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Florida-based Air Burners, a manufacturer of air curtain burner systems, collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Volvo Construction Equipment to develop a portable machine that turns biomass waste into energy. The BioCharger is designed to provide off-grid power from vegetative waste.

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Advantage EV

Electric Auto Association

For EV drivers, cold temperatures slow down the chemical reactions in battery cells, and because they don't have heat-producing engines, EVs must use additional battery power to warm their cabins (although these can be pre-heated in plugged-in EVs).

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

Extreme E’s events are being held with no spectators, created entirely for Web and TV broadcast). Over a 25-minute race, that’s 50 kWh of energy capture, which nearly matches the total 60 kWh of usable battery power in a buffered, 80- kWh pack. This plug-in GT4 can also charge from 5-to-80 percent in 15 minutes.

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Audi highlights its range of electrification efforts; Q7 diesel PHEV, A7 fuel cell PHEV, BEV, 48V and more; 750 Wh/l by 2025

Green Car Congress

This makes it possible for the waste heat from the electrical drive components to be made available to the interior of the Q7 e-tron quattro. The high-performance battery makes the ideal partner to the fuel cell. It can store energy recovered from brake applications and supply considerable power for full- load boosting.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

the big event was a demonstration by PARC researchers of the systems they had built. It was battery-powered, ran Smalltalk, and had a touch-sensitive screen designed by Thornburg. “We No biological organism can live in its own waste products,” Kay said. “If Every few years the Xerox Corp. Poor Adele,” Tesler said.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.