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The World’s Most Popular EVs Aren’t Cars, Trucks, or Motorcycles

Cars That Think

Hub motors integrate a motor directly in the wheel center (either front or rear wheel), in an enclosed system that's independent from the bike chain and pedal drive. Gearless hub motors directly link the motor's stator to the bike axle. Hub motors are relatively affordable, low-maintenance, mass produced by the millions.

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Porsche Electric Car, Infiniti Q30, Electric Motorcycle Tour: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we have a report that Porsche will unveil an electric concept car at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, the first official photo of the Infiniti Q30 compact, and details of a three-country electric-motorcycle tour. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Lightning Eyes 10-Minute Charging for its Motorbikes

Cars That Think

Lightning Motorcycles is already known for record-setting speeds. In 2011, the company’s LS-218 SuperBike set a landspeed record for production electric motorcycles at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, with a 347.55 Lightning Motorcycles “Costs are becoming competitive, so the last big issues are range and charge time,” Hatfield says.

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Hackenberg resigns from Audi Board of Management

Green Car Congress

After graduating in mechanical engineering at Aachen RWTH University, Ulrich Hackenberg was employed as an assistant at the Institute for Motor Transport from 1978 until 1985. In 1996, he moved to Porsche AG as a project manager, where he worked as head of base engine development from 2001 onwards.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Broadly, Navigant expects expansion in both the higher end of the market (thereby putting competitive pressure on Tesla Motors), as Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Mercedes, Saab, and Volvo introduce their first plug-in cars. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year. Electric motorcycles breakout.

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Shanghai auto show: Complete map about exhibitors' booths

CN EV Post

Major exhibitors at Shanghai auto show 2023 Hall Booth Exhibitor Hall 3 3A01 Chevrolet Hall 3 3A02 Buick Hall 3 3A03 SAIC Maxus Hall 3 3A04 IM Motors Hall 3 3A05 SAIC Audi Hall 3 3A06 Cadillac Hall 3 3A07 SAIC Volkswagen Hall 3 3A08 MG Hall 3 3A09 Rising Auto Hall 3 3A10 Roewe Hall 4.1 7B02 Dongfeng Motor Hall 7.2 8A07 Porsche Hall 8.1

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

Green Car Congress

Fluid is re-routed from the shock through the valve, where our proprietary integrated hydraulic motor can either extract power or perform work on the fluid. The very compact unit consists of its own control unit, an electric motor and an electrohydraulic gear pump (Gerotor). Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Systems'