While decidedly not elegant, this idea is highly logical and therefore possibly viable: a German firm intends to offer pre-charged battery trailers to allow longer trips with electric vehicles.
Formula Racing Team of the Budapest Technical University (BME) has frozen the design of its electric race car. The young engineers are preparing for this year's Formula Student race with a construction that is revolutionary in its own right.
The only thing nobler than preparing for a perfect future is if you can also make your present a little better in the process. The e-gas project by Audi goes to show that alternative technologies should not compete against but rather complement each other.
While Europe seems to be waiting for a leading automaker or a national government to make the first major move and wake e-mobility from its slumber, North America is making several tiny moves to allow the zero emission auto industry to gain foothold. Recently Chicago has been added to the electric roadmap.
Actually we should be pleased that in relation with the alternative powered vehicles there's been already come up problems also regarding the long range operation. The leaders of Nissan are not so happy after all.
When we first heard of BMW's proposed electric city vehicle we would have bet anything it was nothing more than a publicity stunt. Life is proving us wrong: the series production model is only a year away, previewed in its almost final form in the BMW i3 Concept Coupé
Electric bicycles are boring, and mopeds are no more exciting either. But mix the two and you'll get an astonishingly funky and attractive city vehicle – and a hybrid to boot...
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- The new generation of electric buses – flash charging at the bus stops July. 24.
- ALTrace in Győr – a clean race for a livelier future May. 1.
- The hybrid McLaren strives for track record March. 29.
- Something in what BMW and Mercedes – Benz are also in agreement March. 18.
- The environment is also in suit protectable March. 12.
- Electric buses on the airport of Hamburg March. 6.
- The „hybrid – bag” has opened at the Volkswagen Group March. 1.
- The past inside, the future outside February. 28.
- Groundless energy February. 19.
- The production of the Smart Electric Drive has been launched February. 6.
- Already in the times of our fathers January. 26.
- Not All Apparent Alternatives are Viable Ones January. 23.
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