Baua Electric
MARCH 26, 2024
To help its transition, Kia is bringing on former longtime Mercedes-Benz and BMW designers. Kia brings on ex-Mercedes, BMW designers amid EV shift Kia announced Tuesday that it has hired senior chief designers Oliver Samson and Seungmo Lim as head of its Europe and China Design Centers. The move is effective April 1st.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2023
DeepDrive, a Munich-based deep-tech company backed by BMW and Continental ( earlier post ), will unveil a new central drive unit for electric vehicles as a world premiere at the IAA Mobility 2023 (4 - 10 September). The key enabler for the dual-rotor concept is a new distributed winding concept with a slot-filling factor above 80%.
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2021
In a switched reluctance motor, torque is produced by the magnetic attraction of a steel rotor to stator electromagnets; there are no permanent magnets, and the rotor carries no windings. A controller energizes each stator winding only when it can produce useful torque. Earlier post.). It is a $230-million group by turnover.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 13, 2013
Drawing from a 2012 BMW patent application showing one embodiment of a proposed method to increase the efficiency of an electric motor. Source: BMW patent application Nº 2012/0267977. The 50 kg electric motor powering the BMW i3 generates a maximum output of 125 kW for a specific power (SP) of 2.5 BMW’s approach.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and American Honda Motor Co., have entered into an agreement to create ChargeScape, LLC, a new equally-owned company that will create a single, cost-effective platform connecting electric utilities, automakers and interested electric vehicle customers.
Plugs and Cars
JULY 31, 2008
All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. (By I will pay nothing for my 300 mile road trip.)
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 26, 2015
wind and solar). carbon composite chassis explored by BMW), by improvements in electric-drive efficiency, and by advanced vehicle climatization concepts (e.g., Therefore, companies have been establishing fast-charging stations (ranging, e.g., from 24 kW by BMW to 120 kW by Tesla). kgH 2 /min.
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