Electric vehicles

General Motors (GM) has established a new subsidiary designed to help the company identify and develop innovative technologies in the automotive and transportation sector, called General Motors Ventures.

The component industry serving the electric vehicle industry is very extensive though it mainly consists of small companies

With many electric vehicle manufacturers sprouting up in the UK, this issue of charging the on-road versions has to be addressed.

The term Smart Grid has been used for decades to mean anything from "a ring main for a country" to the far more responsive, interactive, scalable and intrusive electricity distribution systems of the future.

WEG's new traction motor saves 400kgs in weight on latest generation trolley buses, improving power & economy

Nissan of Japan has been proud of its conventional car manufacturing facility in Sunderland UK because it is one of the most efficient in the world.

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.

Photovoltaics could be applied to the whole of the outside and inside of the car, even over the lights and the windows

Electric vehicles (EVs) are free running vehicles that partly or wholly use electricity for traction, whether by land, sea or air.

In part one; we explained how both "swimmer" and "glider" AUVs have many uses. We mentioned Mine Counter Measures (MCM). Here the several advantages, which include increasing the distance from the threat and removing the need for divers or mammals to identify and neutralise the mines.

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."

Smith Electric Vehicles was famous for the painfully slow but much loved British milk delivery truck - a pure electric vehicle.

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) market is estimated by IET to be worth $2.3bn over the next decade with 1,400 new AUVs built. Over 630 AUVs have already been made for military, scientific and oil and gas sectors in particular.

The most recent instalment of the World Econo Move event held in Akita, Japan on May 4th and 5th saw an exciting example of extreme green electric vehicles being pushed to achieve maximum travel distance in 2 hours on a single, standard form factor, lead acid 12 volt battery.

KillaCycle is the world's fastest electric motorcycle. It achieved zero to 60 mph in less than one second and 176 MPH (282 km/h) using A123 batteries.

Electric car maker THINK hailed the introduction of two bills in the U.S. House and the Senate on Thursday designed to help spur the deployment of electric vehicles and related charging infrastructure.

In the race to build a smart-charging infrastructure that fuels the coming plug-in car revolution, GE and Nissan have teamed to research new technology developments that will make smart charging a reality.

As the smart grid moves from concept to reality, Argonne National Laboratory is helping to ensure this technology will interact seamlessly with the emergence of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).

The multinational Daimler AG, represented in Spain by its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz España S.A., and ACCIONA, a Spanish company that is a world leader in renewables, have signed a cooperation agreement to promote emission-free mobility in the region of Madrid.

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