Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Battery swapping also addresses the infrastructure issues that come along with the growing presence of two- and three-wheeled vehicles.” It makes sense to build better batteries with good battery management systems and software for enhanced thermal control,” says Abuelsamid.

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Global Batteries Battery Three Wheeled 107

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The rebooted Aptera Motors has teamed with Elaphe Propulsion Technologies on a long-range, volume production electric vehicle powered by in-wheel motors. Aptera, initially known as Accelerated Composites, formed in 2005 to bring highly efficient, three-wheeled vehicles to the market ( earlier post ), went out of business in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

This subtopic seeks research and development projects on novel lubricant formulations expected to improve the efficiency of advanced combustion regime engines by at least 10% (improvement based on comparison to similarly configured 2002 or later commercially available combustion engine). AOI 2: Lightweighting Materials.

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