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Chinese car manufacturers BYD and Chery are to sell their hybrid and PHEV models to the Chinese market later this year. BYD and Chery To Launch...
A Wankel engine as a range extender is just about the worst possible choice. The whole point of an EV genset is to have the highest possible...
A California Toyota Dealer is Taking Deposits for 2010 PHEV Prius: Green Car Congress: California Toyota Dealer Taking Deposits for 2010 PHEV...
Over here in the UK, we have a television programme called 5th gear. In last night's episode, racing drivers Jarno Trulli (who drives for Toyota...
Coal power plants are usually close to the coal resources, so little energy is used to transport it to the plant. Neither is the coal refined...
Plug-in supply, and several others that use lead-acid batteries, only use around 60% of the available capacity of the battery (ie from 20% charge...
This is correct, which means a car that manages 5 miles per kWh (which is about what a Prius sized EV or PHEV manages in real life) and uses a...
Even when an electric vehicle is running off the worst possible source of electricity (coal), it emits less CO2 overall into the atmosphere than...
That story claiming potential future shortages of lithium has since been refuted by experts in the field, eg: EVWORLD FEATURE: Revisiting Peak...
Except that BYD are the second largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries in the WORLD. Their Li-Ion batteries are being "tested" day in day...
Please see table 5.3 on page 34, which summarises all of the costs that go into making a single 18650 cell (the workhorse of the LiIon industry,...
Buying a battery for a laptop is not the same as buying a large format battery. A single 18650 lithium-ion cell contains about 8 Wh and costs...
Rubbish. BYD are already producing LiFePO4 cells for their F6 PHEV at $300 per kWh, including all the power electronics and motors. Assuming a...
@ Priussport, This trick is very common in Europe, although with many specific models there is no need to modify the vehicle in any way to run it...
"PlugIn Supply unveiled its PbA10 Conversion System last week at the Plug-in 2008 conference in San Jose. The PbA10 Conversion System, based on...
Mileage update: Fuel tank gauge has just come down to half full - 401 miles on the clock. I've been doing some longer trips over this tank...
Regarding fillup costs of EV vs Prius, the comparison could be something like this (assuming 50 mpg for the Prius and $3 per gallon and 5 miles...
It seems like there is a lot of concern about the CO2 EMISSIONS released from power stations if we switched to electric vehicles or PHEVs....
Over here in Europe, we are soon to get the Ford Fiesta ECOnetic: Green Car Congress: Ford of Europe Introduces Fiesta ECOnetic; 63.6 mpg US...
The big German electricity utility companies certainly think that Nano have made the break-through, as they are buying up as many panels as Nano...
