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Ricardo to optimize in-car climate control systems to extend the range of electric vehicles

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Partnering with Jaguar Land Rover and using a Jaguar I-PACE as a demonstrator vehicle, Ricardo engineers in the TOBEV (Thermally Optimized Battery Electric Vehicle) project will look holistically at whole vehicle thermal management and use state-of the art digital modeling techniques to optimize the thermal and control systems.

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[PRESS RELEASE] Emissions Reduction Plan: Electric Vehicles will drive a low emissions future

Drive Electric

Drive Electric Chair Mark Gilbert says, “If you watch the global automotive market – we’ve been seeing for some time that EV technology will replace petrol and diesel cars. EVs will drive down the costs of owning a vehicle and give New Zealand more energy independence. This may happen faster than you might think.

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Initial Results of UK EV Driver Study Show Increased Confidence and Low Cost Recharging

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This provides sufficient charge for between 20-40 miles of travel at a cost of between 40p to £1, depending on the tariff. The journey data gathered is already showing that the current generation of vehicles are cheap to run as well as being comparable to petrol and diesel vehicles for speed, ease of use and daily journey distance.

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What Are The Benefits of Driving an Electric Car?

Drive Electric

That’s the same as the very thirsty Land Rover Discovery Sport 2.0L. The RAC Foundation reports it currently costs – on average – around £80 to fill up a vehicle with petrol or diesel (based on a 55 litre fuel tank). Changing the daily cost of driving an LCV into London from £22.50 Apples to oranges.

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CPT presenting two papers at SAE World Congress on SpeedStart and TIGERS for 48V mild hybrid systems

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This common core also provides greater confidence in the robustness of prototypes, while minimizing the cost of variants further supports the development of 48V systems. SR machines are ideally suited to this concept of low cost development, while reducing the cost of production components.

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Electric Car Maintenance with the Jaguar I-PACE

Plug In India

​ SPONSORED PluginIndia collected a service fee from Jaguar Land Rover India to make this guide possible. But one of the big benefits is the opportunity to save money due to lower maintenance costs of electric cars! How long does it last and what is the replacement cost of the battery pack?