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Arup outfits 2 electric C1s with HaloIPT wireless charging system for Ultra-Low Carbon Vehicle Demonstrator competition

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To initiate charging, an electric vehicle simply has to be parked or even driven over a pad on the ground. There are a number of perceived barriers to plugging in an electric vehicle in the mind of the potential consumer and this project intends to demonstrate that inductive charging is a practical alternative.

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Renault and VW may partner on low-cost BEV minicar

Baua Electric

It certainly isn’t the first time European automakers have collaborated on minicars –Toyota partnered with Peugeot and Citroen on the Aygo/Peugeot 108/ Citroen C1 minicar, as well as Ford paired with Fiat to produce a second gen Ka on the Fiat 500 platform.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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It could go weeks between charges while mobiles equipped with other displays barely made it through a day (some of them still barely make it through a day). E Ink’s Advanced Color ePaper (ACEP) uses four different types of pigment particles, varying in size and charge. From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical. James Provost.

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ALABC lead-acid UltraBattery Civic hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

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In a project co-funded by the US Department of Energy and managed by Ecotality North America, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) has demonstrated the durability of lead-carbon batteries in the high-rate, partial state-of-charge operation of a hybrid electric vehicle. The battery capacity was 7.54 Ah for the new modules.

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Toyota Prius named WhatGreenCar of the Year

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The 10 cars up for contention for the 2009 Award included: the Citroen C1 ev’ie electric, Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric, Toyota iQ, Ford Fiesta ECOnetic, third-generation Toyota Prius hybrid, Volvo S40/V50 DRIVe start-stop, new Honda Insight hybrid, VW Passat BlueMotion 2, BMW 318d saloon, and the Citroen C3 Picasso compact-MPV.

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Axeon awarded EU funding to reduce size, weight and cost of EV & hybrid vehicle batteries

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European Li-ion automotive battery supplier Axeon has been awarded research funding from the EU to reduce the weight, volume and cost of batteries in electric and hybrid vehicles as part of a €3.32-million million (US$4.72-million) million) consortium program called SmartBatt. Reduction in battery pack cost by 5%-10%.

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Capacitor Working Principle, Types and Application

Baua Electric

a capacitor working principle refers to a storing of electrical energy in the form charge unit of charge is coulombs. Capacitors are available in a very wide range and sizes, but functionally all are used for storage of electrical charge. The capacitor is a device that is capable of storing electric charge +ve and -ve both.

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