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Sakti3 Third generation batteries backed

Earlier this year, the University of Michigan traction battery spinoff Sakti3, inc. announced $7 million in second round of venture funding led by capital firm Beringea, in addition to Khosla. Now G.M. Ventures has invested $3.2 Million in the company. Vloet/University of Michigan Professor Ann Marie Sastry of the University of Michigan is chief executive of Sakti3.

East of England charging towards an electric vehicle revolution

Government backs region's major project to install electric vehicle plug-in points

All charged up

Ability to recharge rapidly could make electric cars more acceptable to consumers, says MIT student team.

Tanfield Smith Electric Vehicles consolidates for growth

The board of electric vehicle company Tanfield has signed a non-binding agreement to consolidate its UK and US electric vehicle businesses, Smith Electric Vehicles UK and Smith Electric Vehicles US. Its US arm, SEVUS, also plans to float on the Nasdaq stock exchange as early as the first half of 2011, Tanfield said.

Coulomb's 1st ChargePoint America EV charging stations

Coulomb Technologies unveils first ChargePoint America Electric Vehicle charging stations in San Jose, California

Electric vehicles in India - Part four

Mahindra will probably offer the first production diesel hybrid in a light duty application in the USA. So far the only diesel hybrids on American roads are the big transit buses now running many cities.

Electric vehicles in India - Part one

There are already many manufacturers of traction motors in India and a huge nascent market for everything automotive. In the next twelve months at least ten new electric vehicles will enter production in India, from buses, rickshaws and bikes to forklifts.

Germany catching up in electric vehicles

Germany is the strongest trading nation in Europe with the broadest and deepest automotive activity. However, the strategy of the German government and its automotive industry has been deeply flawed.

Report on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Event

Dr Peter Harrop reports back on the Hybrid and Electric Vehicles conference - Powertrain development, technology and trends

Electric Vehicles in East Asia

The Western media obsess about electric cars to be made in the West, many of them being both overpriced and underperforming in global terms. This misses the fact that 56% of the value of sales of electric vehicles is and will remain in East Asia and cars only account for about half of the value of the electric vehicle business worldwide.

Tesla plugs into Wall Street

US electric automaker Tesla Motors has gone public.

Energy harvesting and the smart grid

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 and intrusive electricity distribution systems of the future. These will become fractal in nature because they will seamlessly incorporate home networks, smart meters, electricity generation on your house and maybe even personal generation and use of electricity as reported in Energy Harvesting Journal.

Taiwan goes up market with EVs

Taiwan makes electric bicycles but mainly with most of the added value being in China, often by collaboration, in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers.

Electric Vehicles and the Smart Grid

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.

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."

Growth of electric vehicles

Integrating emerging business models and new value chains

Hyundai Sonata Hybrid

Hyundai has unveiled a gas-electric hybrid version of its popular Sonata midsize sedan at the New York International Auto

Ford & Microsoft lead the way toward a more energy-efficient future

Ford and Microsoft announce a new solution that will make electric vehicle ownership easier and more affordable. Ford Motor Co. and Microsoft Corp. are leading the way toward a more energy-efficient future with a new solution that will make electric vehicle ownership easier and more affordable for consumers.

Printing large batteries

170 years ago, Faraday appreciated the different electrical properties of nano gold over bulk metal in electrical devices, so applying nanotechnology to these things is scarcely new. However, the huge sums now being applied to improvement of lithium traction batteries in particular are now leading to work on a much larger scale and thin film technology, nanotechnology and printing are in increasingly important part of this.

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".