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Aura System’s Generator Incorporated into Azure’s Balance Hybrid for USPS

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Azure Dynamics Corporation incorporated Aura Systems ’s AuraGen motor/generator into its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle delivered to the United States Postal Service fleet (USPS). The stators are made from a steel ribbon with copper windings. s vertical wind turbines. Aura Systems. The AuraGen.

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GM Will Apply Plug-in Hybrid Technology To One of Its Remaining Four Core Brands, Delivery Still in 2011

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Saturn currently sells two hybrid vehicles (VUE and Aura with GM Hybrid System) and was scheduled to begin initially offering a two-mode hybrid Vue ( earlier post ), with a Vue plug-in two-mode hybrid version ( earlier post ) due in 2011 for use in a cooperative demonstration test fleet with the US Dept. Earlier post.).

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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He’s the co-founder and president of KoBold Metals , an AI-powered mineral exploration company working to discover the materials for electric vehicle batteries. What metals do we need for electric vehicle batteries and how much do we need of them? And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well.

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GM Previews First Two-Mode, Front-Wheel-Drive Hybrid Transaxle

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Nitz also noted that the coming next-generation of the mild GM Hybrid System ( earlier post ), which in its current form is applied in the Malibu, VUE and Aura, will offer equivalent power to Honda’s IMA system in the new Insight. In distributed windings, the coils of an AC motor’s stator winding span more than one tooth of the stator core.

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