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Mexican Researchers Convert Internal Combustion Cars to Electric Vehicles to Improve Air Quality

Convert internal combustion cars, which means less economic cost and contribution to a clean environment.

9 Sep 2016

University of Delaware’s Platform for Integrating V2G Technology Makes Large-Scale Renewable Energy More Practical

The University of Delaware’s platform for integrating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology is now operating in Denmark, creating a new V2G hub outside the United States that is poised to expand widely with commercial products.

30 Aug 2016

Survey Reveals Common Plug-In Hybrid User Trends

Battery electric vehicles provide better energy efficiency, less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions over vehicles powered by fossil fuels. Plug-in hybrid vehicles are in a mid-position - they are capable of extended driving in electric mode with electricity generated from the grid or the use of fossil fuel in an inner combustion engine.

17 Aug 2016

New Hybrid Valladolid Municipal Fleet Vehicles Presented at Plaza Mayor

Four new vehicles of the Valladolid municipal fleet were presented in Plaza Mayor (Valladolid) on July 19th 2016. They are two new extended-range hybrid buses and two fully electric cars purchased within the framework of sustainable mobility actions from the REMOURBAN project.

28 Jul 2016

Researchers Develop New Pricing System to Make Charging Electric Vehicles More Effective

Research at Southampton has developed a new pricing system based on online auction platforms, to make charging electric vehicles more effective. We are also investigating how batteries can give power back to the National Grid when the electric cars are not being used.

15 Jul 2016

New Electric-Hybrid Engine for Venice Water Taxis Could Provide Cleaner, Greener Transport

Engineers from the University of Southampton are helping to develop an electric-hybrid engine for Venice water taxis this summer to provide cleaner, greener transport.

24 Jun 2016

Fairchild Launches New Discrete and Bare Die IGBTs for Hybrid and All-Electric Vehicles

Fairchild’s Latest Automotive Innovations Give Automakers and Their Suppliers Multiple Options for Traction Inverters and Other Motor-Driving Components

18 May 2016

Nissan Announce Schemes to ‘revolutionise’ Electric Vehicles into Mobile Storage Devices

Three major announcements from the manufacturer of the world’s No 1 mass market electric car First ever UK trial of electric vehicle owners selling excess energy back to National Grid Launch of domestic ele...

11 May 2016

New Battery Energy Storage Project Could be Used to Power Railways

Engineers have received £1.5million in funding for a new battery energy storage project that could mean more efficient and cheaper trains.

21 Apr 2016

First Step to Prove BYD’s Mature Technology to Provide Reliable Electrified Public Transportation

On March 16, 2016, an 18-meter articulated pure electric BYD bus covered the over 400 km distance between Bogota and Medellin with one single battery charge, in a non-stop test preparation journey of the BYD zero emission bus to initiate Medellin. The topography of Medellin is characterized by frequent and often exceedingly steep slopes, and this successful journey was the first step to prove BYD’s mature technology to provide reliable electrified public transportation.

21 Mar 2016