Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 14, 2011
1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Portland, Ore.; Both models provide maximum fuel efficiency by pairing the high-voltage lithium-ion battery and electric traction motor with a high-efficiency Atkinson-cycle gasoline engine. A limited number of Focus Electrics will first be available in California and the New York/New Jersey areas.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 9, 2012
Online cross-shopping data from Edmunds.com indicates that consumers are doing their due diligence to compare hybrids with similar gasoline-powered vehicles. Los Angeles; San Diego; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle) are no more loyal to hybrid vehicles than the nation at large. Hybrid vehicles represent 2.4%
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
“A car must be able to be recharged in Italy in exactly the same way as in Denmark, Germany or France,&# she was quoted saying in an edition of Die Welt to appear Monday. » See also: 9 Electric Cars 100 Years Old or More » Get Gas 2.0 by RSS or sign up by email. Sorry for any confusion. More on Electric Cars: It’s On!
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
3 David Herron said on March 16th, 2009 at 12:31 am Fast recharge will require huge power levels. To recharge 20 kilowatt-hours of capacity in 5 minutes requires 240 kilowatts of electricity. But besides that, the only electronics potentially benefiting from THIS breakthrough are RCs and household rechargeable batteries.
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Around the same time, General Motors will introduce the Chevrolet Volt, a vehicle able to go 40 miles on electricity before its small gasoline engine kicks in. Battery-powered motors are more efficient than gasoline engines. They cost drivers on average only 2.5
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2011
It is this concept of optimal packaging of the drivetrain components that made the i the logical choice when Mitsubishi decided to make a 100% electric-powered vehicle as it was relatively easy for engineers to swap the gasoline engine for an electric motor and stow the lithium-ion battery pack beneath the sub-floor. i-MiEV, Japan-spec.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
A chemist and government researcher, Wang raised some $300,000 from relatives, rented about 2,000 square meters of space, and set out to manufacture rechargeable batteries to compete with imports from Sony and Sanyo. Wang Chuan-Fu started BYD (the letters are the initials of the companys Chinese name) in 1995 in Shenzhen, China.
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