Electric vehicles

Tesla plans to raise USD195.7m from its follow-on offering of 6,925,740 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $28.25 per share.

Fisker Automotive has completed the initial closing of its current equity financing, representing in excess of $100 million of new funding.

This large show covered conventional buses and trucks very well, with many on display and being demonstrated in action, the story being one of incremental improvement with very limited interest in saving the planet - more a matter of responding to ever tighter regulation. Some vehicles had chimneys rather than exhaust pipes.

Analyst IDTechEx has been taking a close look at the elements and compounds used in the new electronics and electrics - components just entering a phase of very rapid growth in sales.

IDTechEx give their impression of the extensive IAA show, concerned with buses and trucks and their parts, in Hannover Germany and the linked Electric Mobility Congress.

Panasonic Corporation said it will supply lithium-ion batteries for Toyota Motor Corporation's eQ electric car.

The results achieved by the R&D Laboratory of Renault and the CEA in new-generation batteries for electric vehicles have made it possible to enter the preparation phase for industrial production, to begin in 2017 in France, with the contribution of the South Korean battery manufacturer, LG Chem, a world leader in the sector.

Over the next three years, 15 partners from German science and the automotive and supply industry will research how the safety of lithium ion batteries can be further improved for electric and hybrid vehicles.

The UK driveline technology specialist Xtrac, whose transmissions are in the forefront of many next generation electric and hybrid vehicles, has designed a new, low cost and efficient transmission for the StreetScooter GmbH electric vehicle business based in Aachen.

Google and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power join Evatran's Apollo Program, the first Program to test and demonstrate wireless charging capability for passenger vehicles.

Plans for new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province will expand BYD's EV and new-energy businesses into southwest China and neighboring Asian countries.

This article shares some of the research carried out for a new IDTechEx report requested by several of the world's largest chemical companies.

Electric motors in aircraft are not readily scalable so many aircraft employ many propellers each with their own motor.

Technology developer, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what is believed to be the world's first water cooled electric supercharger developed for 'quasi continuous' boosting of commercial diesel engines including those developed for off highway applications and diesel electric hybrid vehicles.

Manufacturers of vehicle batteries were in a slow moving industry based on lead-acid batteries. However, they are now in an era of very rapid change. Product re-positioning and new technology can make the difference between high sustainable profits and oblivion.

The lightning GT is a British two seater, built on a unique chassis specifically to be a world leading 100% electric GT and platform for future models.

Starting this month, BRUSA Elektronik AG will be the first company to produce a battery charger for electric vehicles that is capable of operating on a three-phase current with a power of up to 22 kW.

A new event was staged in The exquisite regency town of Cheltenham on September 8-9. It pulled in a remarkable 10,000 visitors to attend debates, lectures and mainly to see the exhibition and rides of no less than 40 electric vehicles, mainly experimental, on-road and racing cars.

Contour Energy Systems, Inc., has merged with with Austin-based ActaCell Energy Systems.

Ricardo and Intelligent Energy are to work together in applying their respective expertise in advanced low carbon vehicle engineering and fuel cell power technology platforms.