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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Later, in graduate school at Virginia Tech, he became part of a group of engineers who visited local schools to help enhance the STEM curriculum with hands-on building of solar electric and small motor project activities. “We It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained.

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Electric vehicles sales, transportation & policy initiatives 

Electric Vehicles India

The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) is an apex national body representing all major vehicle & vehicular engine manufacturers in India. It has announced the sales of the automobile industry for May 2021. NITI Aayog. The Cabinet approved the National Mission on transformative mobility and battery storage. .

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Deloitte global survey gauges consumer prospects for EVs in China, Europe and Americas; China leads

Green Car Congress

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s (DTTL) Global Manufacturing Industry group conducted a global survey to explore consumer adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). The survey, conducted among 1,163 consumers in China, coincides with the 14 th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai 2011) this week.

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

Cars That Think

According to market research company NPD Group , the pandemic helped increase e-bike sales by 145 percent from 2019 to 2020, more than double the growth of traditional bikes. Industry analysts expect that uptick in adoption to continue. Hub motors are relatively affordable, low-maintenance, mass produced by the millions.

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Audi TechDay e-mobility, Part 2: systems and components

Green Car Congress

In electric mobility, Audi distinguishes between two groups of vehicles: fully hybrid vehicles, driving a maximum of about 3 km (1.86 Unlike internal combustion engines, electric motors yield their maximum torque at extremely low rpms, practically from the starting position. Audi engineers participate in working groups.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Chicago Tribune ) DaimlerChrysler 12/22/06 [DaimlerChrysler Group research chief Thomas Weber] played down the importance for passenger cars of plug-in hybrid technology that is getting lots of attention in the U.S. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ).

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