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Kia introduces modular ‘Platform Beyond Vehicle’ strategy, teases several concept EVs at CES

Baua Electric

This afternoon, Kia introduced its fully customizable Platform Beyond Vehicle (PBV) to provide businesses and individuals with modular, fit-for-purpose EVs. Kia also demonstrated the potential of its new PBV business by unveiling the Concept PV5.

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Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo concept to be used as race taxi in Formula E; “virtuality turns into reality”

Green Car Congress

Audi has produced the Audi e-tron Vision Gran Turismo concept car, which it will deploy as a race taxi in Formula E starting with the race in Rome on Saturday 14 April. Many of these concept cars were subsequently built as full-scale models as well and presented at trade shows. Our aim was a fully functional car.

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Retrofitting three-wheeler to electric 

Electric Vehicles India

It is very important to study retrofitting and hybrid three-wheelers in detail to understand how they can fill the gap of transition from ICE based system to a fully electrically operated model. Taxi aggregators start-ups like (Ola, Uber, etc) are well established the importance and added cars to their products.

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UK TSB Awards £25M to Eight Low-Carbon Vehicle Demonstration Projects; Focus On Electric Vehicles

Green Car Congress

Each of the six vehicle manufacturers—Jaguar/Land Rover, Mitsubishi/Colt, Mercedes Benz/Smart, Tata Motors, LTI and Microcab Industries—are contributing vehicles towards the low carbon scheme, which includes a mix of fully electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell cars. Electricity providers E.ON

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Schaeffler Group sees e-mobility and digitalization as key opportunities

Green Car Congress

Schaeffler is also developing a two-speed electric axle (P4) for hybrid and fully electric vehicles. Schaeffler is also working on a wheel hub drive, which packages all the necessary components—the electric motor, the power electronics, brakes and cooling—within the wheel rim.

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

Green Car Congress

E-Thrust is a “series hybrid” electrical distributed propulsion system concept using one gas power unit providing the electrical power for six fans for lower fuel consumption, fewer emissions and less noise. E-Fan: electric aircraft in progress. Click to enlarge. E-Fan in the hangar. Click to enlarge.

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AMPECO CEO discusses the software that makes large-scale EV charging systems work in comprehensive Q&A

Charged EVs

Even in Dubai, for example, all the taxi companies need to be fully electric by 2027. We’ve already created some proofs of concept with machine learning where we try to recognize faults before they happen. Saudi Arabia is even building a factory for EVs.