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

Green Car Congress

founded in 2009 out of MIT ( earlier post ), is an emerging technology company headquartered working to develop the first fully active, regenerative suspension for the automotive, trucking, mass transit, and defense industries. In addition, there are ZF systems for buses, trucks, agricultural machines and motorcycles.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Marketwatch ).

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