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

Green Car Congress

e performance was broken down into a dozen work packages from the energy storage system to the control concept to dynamic stability control. Computations and initial tests on the component level indicate that this innovative safety concept can even withstand a side impact with pole. e performance battery system. Click to enlarge.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

Cars That Think

Certainly, the phenomenon of scalability was well known in the automobile industry before it made a significant impact on the computing industry. At the core of Henry Ford’s achievement was the design of an automobile that was made for mass production. Consider the example of a retail store.

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Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

Green Car Congress

Linear accelerator concept for capsule acceleration and deceleration between 300 and 760 mph (480 and 1,220 km/h). Hyperloop concept sketch. The capsules may be passenger-only, or, for more flexibility (and at a higher system cost), passenger and automobile combinations. The steam is stored onboard until reaching the station.

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

Green Car Congress

As the number two OEM in the automobile business in the world, it only makes sense for us if we see a certain volume behind it. The power electronics converts the direct current (DC) stored in the battery to alternating current (AC). Note the large panel display screens which provide documentation on the task being done.

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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.

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