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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

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In a session on total vehicle energy consumption, several people shared similar pie charts showing the flow of energy within an automobile. Only 22% remains to power the vehicle. Cash for Clunkers. The association expects the amount of aluminum per vehicle to increase from 8.6% Braking losses add another 6%.

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Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

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As a result of the lockdown, automobile production ground to a halt in several leading car manufacturing countries. In certain European countries, such as Italy or the UK , passenger vehicle sales even dropped as much as 95-97%. last month, but battery electric vehicle sales decreased by only 58.1%.

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