Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Twenty units of the Audi A1 e-tron extended range electric vehicle ( earlier post ) are on the roads of the Munich pilot region in a fleet trial by partners Audi, E.ON, the public utility Stadtwerke München (SwM), and Technische Universität München (TUM). The Audi A1 e-tron is an electric car with a range extender.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The convergence of a wide range of new technologies is leading to an unprecedented shift in what GM calls “the genetic makeup” of motor vehicles. Click to enlarge. GM has published a “blue paper” introducing its vision of sustainable urban mobility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It will address a number of issues from the data transfer between the driver, vehicle and electric filling station to the power grid. The 12 kWh Li-ion battery pack in A1 e-tron supports a range of 50 kilometers (31.07 miles) of range. It will also include a test of smartphones as the central interface for the driver.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2009

J2464 (Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Rechargeable Energy Storage System (RESS) Safety And Abuse Testing), which is a. comprehensive overhaul of a decade-old standard, is designed to “determine the response of batteries to conditions or events which are beyond their normal operating range”, according to Kissel. Inrush currents.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Establishing dealer network.

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