Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 23, 2012
As another step toward autonomous driving systems, Volvo Car Corporation is demonstrating a new traffic jam assistance system. The new system, whereby the car automatically follows the vehicle in front in slow-moving queues up to 50 km/h (31 mph), will be ready for production in 2014. However, it is always the driver who is in charge.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2011
With a top speed of 25 mph (40 km/h) and a range of up to 30 miles (48 km) on a charge, GEM electric vehicles are designed for short-distance transportation and are driven on medical and corporate campuses, universities, military bases, resorts, sports stadiums, gated communities and residential streets.
Green Car Congress
JULY 1, 2014
—Erik Ljungberg, Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations at Scania. Our long haulage services will not cause any disruptions to the pace of traffic and we will quite easily be able to maintain the legal speed limit of 80 km/h [50 mph]. —Anders Gustavsson, Managing Director of Scania Transport Laboratory.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 26, 2011
GEM cars are used by local, state and national government agencies, resorts, master-planned communities, universities, medical and corporate campuses, as well as by sports teams, taxi-shuttle services and individual consumers. The six GEM passenger and utility models are legal on most streets with posted speeds of 35 mph or less.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 7, 2017
mph) in just 8.5 The actual bursting pressure is much higher still and far exceeds the legal requirements. TÜV Süd, a German testing and certification corporation, monitors and certifies the process. The potential overall range is comparable to that of a car with a TDI engine. Its top speed is 223 km/h (138.6
Green Car Congress
JULY 2, 2015
Once the speed exceeds approximately 80 km/h (50 mph) or under strong acceleration, the engine cuts in automatically. Top speed is limited to around 130 km/h (81 mph), while the all-electric range is some 38 kilometres. Under normal loads, the vehicle initially sets off purely on electric power. Cutaway of hydrogen tunnel tank.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2012
The SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) ( earlier post ) has recently completed the first successful test demonstration of a multiple vehicle platoon, with Volvo Car Corporation as the only participating car manufacturer. —Erik Coelingh, technical project manager at the Volvo Car Corporation.
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