Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

“Range anxiety” has been a headline concern for electric vehicles. Hyundai’s sophisticated, e-GMP (electric global modular platform) skateboard architecture gives the Ioniq5 an enormous 3-meter (118.1-inch) The problem is that lithium-ion cells remain expensive, heavy, and in critically short supply around the world.

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Volt Range Charging Hummer 110

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2016

Two days before the official Prologue for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Paul Ricard, France, Porsche presented its new 919 Hybrid LMP1 race car for the 2016 season. For 2016, the components of the electric drive have also become more powerful and efficient. Porsche 919 Hybrid, 4-cylinder turbo. Click to enlarge.

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Porsche Hybrid Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

megajoules of fuel energy are available to the new R18 e-tron quattro per lap at Le Mans. liters less per 100 kilometers than the gasoline engines of the challengers, Toyota and Porsche, are allowed to consume. Top: The LMP1 rules define energy classes for different powertrain systems. Specifically, 138.7 Sibling rivalry.

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2006 Audi 2014 Engine 294

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2014

In the first hours, the Le Mans hybrid-drive prototypes of Audi ( earlier post ), Porsche ( earlier post ) and Toyota ( earlier post ) were battling it out on the Le Mans high-speed circuit. This energy also flows into the flywheel energy storage system. liter V-8 gasoline engine.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150