Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The team says replacing a metal wheel well with a composite one could enable Volvo to reduce the number of batteries needed to power the electric motor. They believe this could lead to a 15% reduction in the car’s overall weight, which should significantly improve the range of future hybrid cars. Shirshova, N., Shaffer, M.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

The objective of the project is to develop a high power and high energy electrical storage system that combines the strengths of each technology—high power density for ultracapacitors and high energy storage for Li-ion batteries—at equal or better system efficiency and net cost/density compared to current conventional Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For many decades now, our research vehicles have been turning pioneering concepts into reality and thereby setting future trends. We set a course on the large touring sedan segment in 2007, when we presented the F 700. Herbert Kohler, Head of E-Drive & Future Mobility and Chief Environmental Officer at Daimler. (At

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

A research project that is working on developing an actively coupled ultracapacitor battery system for plug-in hybrid electric vehicle applications is attracting attention from a number of manufacturers. The project, which began in 2007, has already completed hardware proof of concept testing.

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