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EV myths busted: Are electric vehicles safer than gas-powered cars?

Drive Electric

Safety systems in plug-in hybrid and electric cars automatically shut the power off and isolate the battery when a collision or short circuit is detected, lowering the likelihood of a fire. EV electrical circuits are just as safe as diesel and petrol cars. Don’t worry about dodging puddles in your Prius!

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Chrysler LLC Forms Strategic Alliance with A123Systems for First Generation of ENVI Electric Vehicle Lineup

Green Car Congress

The five vehicles included the Dodge Circuit EV, Jeep Wrangler EV, Jeep Patriot EV, Chrysler Town & Country EV and the Chrysler 200C EV concept. The technology will include an air-cooled lithium-ion battery pack designed and integrated by Delphi using cells from A123Systems. Earlier post.).

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Audi EP4 thought, 110 Aston Martins at Silverstone: Lately’s Automobile Information

Baua Electric

The ensuing design is the wild EP4 thought whose output from a unmarried electrical motor is nearly 8 instances that of the donor Prinz 4’s fresh twin-cylinder engine. Audi lately gave its apprentices an enchanting problem: flip the cutesy NSU Prinz 4 into an electrical monitor device.

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

Cars That Think

Especially since I’m straining to keep pace with Raffaele de Simone just ahead, the Ferrari test driver who routinely sets lap records on this historic circuit, just a few pasta lengths from its factory in Maranello, in northern Italy. km circuit. second lap advantage over that ICE-only supercar. It can accelerate to 60 mph in about 2.0

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The Road Noise Cancellation and Engine Order Cancellation systems will provide vehicle manufacturers with the ability to greatly improve in-cabin refinement, with additional design opportunities for optimising vehicle weight reduction and fuel economy. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Follow us on Twitter!

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VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also ferrying guests about a short circuit (so to speak) was a smart fortwo imbued with a Tesla-engineered drivetrain, fruit of its effort to supply Daimler with battery packs for 1,000 smart eds. Reply ↓ ↑ report 10 Chris M 1:48AM (4/26/2009) Actually, there are at least two different "smart EV" efforts.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Forcing companies to conform to standardized batteries prevents them from designing better cars. A rectangular pack design could be installed horizontally for "under-floor" mounting, or installed vertically for "tank" mounting in the trunk or under the hood. Think of a battery in laptops. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments.