Electric vehicles

Envision Solar International has completed the engineering and fabrication of the world's first fully autonomous, fully mobile, fully renewable Electric Vehicle Charging station.

A group of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) recently developed a foldable, compact electric vehicle that can be utilized either as a personal car or part of the public transit system to connect major transportation routes within a city.

CDMC Events will be presenting the 4th Annual Green Mobility 2013 to be held on Oct 9th-11th, 2013 in Beijing, China.

For the next decade, the largest electric vehicle sector will be industrial and commercial electric vehicles on land. In great contrast to the hybrid and pure electric cars that come next in market size, industrial and commercial electric vehicles are almost never bought by private individuals. That means that they are almost never bought on up-front price, the criteria being cost-over-life, reliability and performance with any extra life over conventional versions much appreciated.

Land Rover is launching the world's first diesel SUV (sport utility vehicle) hybrids.

The Online Electric Vehicle is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station.

U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has highlighted the continued growth of electric vehicle sales - doubling in the first 6 months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012 - as the Energy Department released its most recent pricing data showing the low cost of fueling on electricity.

The research shows the potential of manufactured sheets of aligned carbon nanotubes coated with silicon, a material with a much higher energy storage capacity than the graphite composites typically used in lithium ion batteries.

Wettability could have an impact on how much energy can be stored within such devices that use lithium-ion batteries or super capacitors.

Terra Motors Corporation has released its new model of electric scooter, A4000i and A4000. One of the new features of this model is the smartphone connection.

Caterpillar Marine Power Systems with Aspin Kemp & Associates (AKA) has developed a Powered Marine Hybrid System that provides fuel savings of up to 25% and even emissions reductions.

A team of researchers have discovered a way of converting silica from rice husks into silicon for use in high performance lithium ion batteries.

Researchers have developed a new lead-free, high temperature ceramic capacitor that could improve efficiency and reliability of electric vehicles.

The City of Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and Toyota Motor Corporation are to begin public sidewalk demonstration trials of the "Winglet", a TMC-developed personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position.

The Energy Department has launched a new center that will work to ensure that vehicles, charging stations, communications and networking systems work in unison with the electric grid.

A new material that can store large amounts of energy with very little energy loss has been developed by researchers at Australian National University.

Researchers have developed a technique to increase the energy storage capabilities of supercapacitors, essential devices for powering high-speed trains, electric cars, and the emergency doors of the Airbus A380.

Researchers have developed a new method to massively synthesize enhanced yet affordable materials for supercapacitors.

Electric vehicles are becoming more common on roads in the Southwest, and policymakers need to know if they are cleaner than conventional gasoline and natural gas-fueled vehicles.

This article shares some of the research in the new IDTechEx report, "Range Extenders for Electric Vehicles Land, Water & Air 2013-2023" which covers all such vehicles, on land, on/under water and airborne.