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Green Car Congress
JULY 29, 2014
The energy is drawn from the flywheel and converted back into electricity to power the traction motor, which helps accelerate the bus back up to speed, generating fuel savings of more than 20% at a significantly lower cost and weight (60 kg, 132 lbs) than battery hybrid alternatives. When the driver accelerates, the system works in reverse.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Scientists at Imperial College London have demonstrated a highly efficient inductive method for wirelessly transferring power to a drone while it is flying. To demonstrate their approach, the Imperial College London researchers bought an off-the-shelf quadcopter drone—around 12 cm (4.7
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Regenerative electric trains convert kinetic energy into electrical energy during braking. The KTSi proprietary flywheel design has already been used to provide clean traction power to subway trains in several of the world’s leading metropolitan transit authorities, including NYC Transit, London Underground and Lyon Metro, France.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 28, 2023
But what’s most interesting about the mammoth, £580 million project isn’t so much the turbines as the subsea transmission link that will connect the wind farm to the Scottish mainland. Elias Stein The key advance was the implementation of voltage-source converters (VSCs). An inverter there can feed into the mainland AC grid.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 6, 2019
The Dual Voltage Battery Management System combines 48 Volt and 12 Volt batteries in one product and is connected via a 48 Volt line to the belt-driven starter generator (BSG) in mild hybrids. The system allows vehicles with internal combustion engines to be converted to a mild hybrid. Picture: HELLA).
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 26, 2021
In our always-on, sensor-laden, Internet-connected world, shouldn't technology have done better? They developed an event-driven DC accelerometer that can detect change in tilt. Any sensor that can convert a physical phenomenon into a change in resonant frequency could be read by RFID and therefore operated without a battery.
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2014
The power electronics converts the direct current (DC) stored in the battery to alternating current (AC). The Golf offers the CCS charging system, enabling both AC and DC fast charging. kW charge to 100% SOC will take about 8 hours; a DC fast charge to 80% SOC will take about 30 minutes. Connecting the power electronics.
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