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Top 5 electric vehicles books you must read

Electric Vehicles India

As we already know how the ICE vehicles are impacting the environment mostly the air. Build Your Own Electric Motorcycle (Tab Green Guru Guides). The Electric Vehicle Conversion Handbook-How to Convert Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, and Bicycles — Includes EV Components, Kits, and Project Vehicles.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

In 2006, desiring an electric motorcycle with lithium batteries, he found a start-up EV motorcycle manufacturer using acid batteries and gave the firm a special order. “I Harless helped convert a second vehicle with friend Robert Layman, an engineer for Eli Lilly, who he introduced to Steiner. So I never went through with it.”

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Study Finds Tunnel Concentrates Ultrafine Particle Concentration by Up to 1000 Times

Green Car Congress

The study, which appeared in the July issue of the journal Atmospheric Environment , measured ultrafine particle concentration levels outside a vehicle travelling through the 4-km, twinbore (eastbound and westbound) M5 East tunnel in Sydney. Atmospheric Environment Volume 43, Issues 22-23, Pages 3510-3519 doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.04.029.

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8 ZEV states announce US ZEV sales top 260,000 units

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A ZEV Showcase accompanying the announcement included the new Toyota Fuel Cell Concept car (which will be formally revealed next month at the LA Auto Show), as well as the Harley-Davidson electric “Livewire” motorcycle and some of the newest commercially available models, including the Tesla Model D and the Mercedes B class EV.

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ZF and start-up Levant Power partnering on first fully active, regenerative suspension for automobiles

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Levant’s proprietary fluid porting geometries allow for the Gerotor to perform efficiently in a damper environment. This then functions like a generator; it converts the generated kinetic energy into electricity and feeds it into the vehicle power supply, thus contributing to a reduction in CO 2 emissions.

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Top 5 Electric Vehicle Start-Ups in India

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Startups have this innate potential to take up an idea and converting it into a viable business plan then scaling it into a massive success. In September 2016, Kapil Shelke’s Tork Motors unveiled its first product, claiming to be India’s first electric motorcycle. WATCH]: Evolve Z and Evolve R electric motorcycles.

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

In 2006, desiring an electric motorcycle with lithium batteries, he found a start-up EV motorcycle manufacturer using acid batteries and gave the firm a special order. “I Harless helped convert a second vehicle with friend Robert Layman, an engineer for Eli Lilly, who he introduced to Steiner. So I never went through with it.”

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