article thumbnail

Audi’s €36M e performance research project closes; electric F12 e Sport with split voltage battery packs and 3 motors

Green Car Congress

Audi—collaborating with Bosch, RWTH Aachen University, and others— launched the e performance project at the Audi Electronics Venture GmbH (AEV) on 1 October 2009 with the objective of developing a scalable systems architecture for electric-powered cars that also included a plug-in hybrid drive. Click to enlarge.

Motoring 257
article thumbnail

Audi and Partners Launch Plug-in Fleet Pilot Project in Munich Region with A1 e-tron

Green Car Congress

Drivetrain of the Audi A1 e-tron. Audi and its partners E.ON, the Munich municipal utility company Stadtwerke München (SWM) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have begun a fleet trial with electric drive cars in the Munich model region. g/mile), Audi says. Click to enlarge. L/100 km (123.80

Audi 210
article thumbnail

ABB joins CharIN; taking Combined Charging System to the next level; 150 kW demos, targeting 350 kW

Green Car Congress

CharIN was founded by Audi, BMW, Daimler, Mennekes, Opel, Phoenix Contact, Porsche, TÜV SÜD and Volkswagen to focus on developing and establishing the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the standard for charging battery-powered electric vehicles of all kinds. Ricky Hudi , Head of Development for Electrics/Electronics at Audi AG, at ELIV.

Charging 150
article thumbnail

Background on the 2.0L diesel engines at the core of the Volkswagen emissions testing debacle

Green Car Congress

Last Friday, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Air Resources Board (ARB) charged that Volkswagen (Jetta, Beetle, Golf, Passat) and Audi (A3) passenger cars equipped with 2.0-liter This is referred to as the Gen 1 aftertreatment design in the EPA/ARB documents.). Earlier post.)

Diesel 150
article thumbnail

Driving the VW e-Golf; strategy, assembly in Wolfsburg, Braunschweig battery plant

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen implemented an acoustic concept for the e-Golf that is specifically tailored to the characteristics of an electric vehicle, greatly enhancing its already quiet attributes. Note the large panel display screens which provide documentation on the task being done. Volkswagen is electrifying all vehicle classes. Bottom left.

Batteries 356
article thumbnail

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Showed BlueZERO E-CELL PLUS series PHEV concept in December 08. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009.

Plug-in 45