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2010

Department of Energy announces closing of $529 million loan to Fisker

Manufacturing at shuttered Delaware GM plant expected to create over 2,000 jobs

Electric Vehicles in the UK - Part One

The UK has now produced a host of small companies involved in most aspects of electric vehicles and their components and some long established companies have successfully moved into the field.

Electric cars - learning from the past

In 1880, they said that the future of the car was electric. In April 2010, Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company said "It appears that the biggest game-changer will be electric vehicles."

Toyota to invest in Tesla to develop electric vehicles

Japanese motor giant Toyota is preparing to join forces with US car manufacturer, Tesla Motors to develop and manufacture electric vehicles and components.

Kleenspeed Technologies goes mainstream

KleenSpeed was founded as recently as 2007 to develop pure electric vehicle technology and intellectual property in the NASA Ames Technology Park in Mountain View California. Already it is selling the fastest EV race cars at about 150 mph for 45 minutes, rather like the Mission Motors Mission One pure electric motorcycle made not far away. A 200 mph Formula One version is next in line.

Strong backing for Coda

US start up Coda's first car, is based on a Chinese-made Hafei Saibao sedan and it will be "less than $35,000, after tax credits".

Wireless sensor networks - we are getting there

Suddenly tiny broad band vibration harvesters, transparent film photovoltaics and many other forms of harvesting become sufficient and the 20 year node looks possible.

Wireless Sensor Networks - We Are Getting There

Yet it is only a first step to small devices communicating without human involvement and without those radio masts and their expensive and vulnerable cabling. Remember that...

DOE closes a $529 Million loan to Fisker Automotive

The Department of Energy has closed a $528.7 million loan with Fisker Automotive for the development and production of two lines of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV).

Lithium vehicle traction batteries and harvesting

The conference of about 40 people "Lithium Battery Technology and System Development" in London 9 March 2010 was concerned with "breaking barriers for electric vehicles".

Electric Vehicles - China vs Japan

The Western media debate at length the transformation of the Western automotive industry. However, the real battle of the titans is taking place in East Asia. It concerns electric vehicles, both hybrid and pure electric, and a much bigger picture, because these manufacturers ...

Electric Vehicles - Second Time Lucky

From 1880 to 1920 there was a boom in electric cars before a shakeout all but eliminated them until they crept back as golf cars seventy years later, a modest niche of the automotive market. Now we see ...

2009

Motoring without the gas station

Hybrid cars are a great success. In addition, pure electric cars are at last moving beyond the golf car and neighbourhood vehicle stage with serious volumes beginning to be sold.

Notes on Electrochemical Energy Storage meeting London 21 April

This one day meeting at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in London was staged jointly with the Royal Society of Chemistry. Here we report on two of the lectures which concerned devices that will increasingly interface with energy harvesting - rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors.

Wireless electricity to power mobile devices

Companies showcase wireless power products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

2008

Lithium ion cells are showing their power

Lithium ion batteries have a relatively short lifespan and in extreme circumstances can catch fire or even explode.

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