Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2010
Distribution of battery requirements for consumer-selected PHEV designs (shaded circles) compared to USABC, MIT and EPRI performance requirements. The USABC specifies two PHEV designs to guide its battery requirements: an AE-10 crossover and AE-40 mid-sized car. Units USABC MIT EPRI. Source: Axsen et al. Click to enlarge.
Plugs and Cars
MAY 19, 2007
Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last week, as reported in MIT's Technology Review. When consumers were told this, the percentage of people who would consider buying the cars dropped from 52 to 33 percent.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 17, 2009
Powered by Share » Digg this Add to del.icio.us Add to Mixx Add to Newsvine Add to Connotea Add to CiteUlike Add to Furl Googlize this Add to Rojo Add to MyWeb Favorite Print E-mail The price of green: The Fisker Karma, on display at the New York Auto Show, is a plug-in hybrid that can run on batteries alone for 50 miles.
Cars That Think
JUNE 4, 2022
a small mainframe computer company that Taylor had tried to convince Xerox to buy as a way of starring up PARC. The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp., So PARC ended up with another first.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
The biggest barrier is the battery." GMs program relies on lithium-ion battery technology that Gioia called "cost, weight and package prohibitive." People wont buy a full car. The big thing is how fast they can bring the battery cost down," he said. The target is to come in at the price of a midmarket car. Marketwatch ).
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Posted by: J-Bob | Apr 13, 2009 4:48:10 PM "Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Its been improving over time, but the power density and cost issues are still steep for what exists thus far.
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