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UK Technology Strategy Board Awards More Than 12M to 22 Projects to Speed Up Development of Low-Carbon Technology for Vehicles; Includes Gas Turbine Range Extender and Li-S Battery Cells

Green Car Congress

In addition to helping to meet UK and EU climate change targets, we anticipate this research and development work will create significant market opportunities for UK-based companies. Development of high energy Li-S prototype battery cells. BladeBoost - A Novel Rotary Supercharger for Ultra-Efficient Downsized Gasoline Engines.

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Mixed Outlook for Mainstream Consumer Adoption of PHEVs

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Bubble chart of plausible mainstream PHEV buyers’ battery requirements (light and dark gray circles) and experts’s requirements overlaid on a Ragone plot of NiMH and Li-ion batteries. Start talking about more than just climate change. Source: Ken Kurani. Click to enlarge. Tax the fuel.”

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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Call it Peak ICE—the last hurrah of a technology that governments are ushering off the stage to combat climate change. It fills in electric torque at low engine rpms or during gear changes that take as little as 200 milliseconds. Those motors are fed electrons by a 7.9-kilowatt-hour Total curb weight remains a slender 1,570 kg.

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