Category: EV Technology

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New 311mph Maglev Train in Japan passes initial tests

Engineers with Central Japan Railway Co. have put their newest maglev L0 train through initial testing and report the new high-speed train is on course for commercial deployment by 2027. The train...

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Toyota Hybrid Racing – Supercapacitor System Explained

The 90th Le Mans 24 Hours is approaching fast, with the test day already this Sunday, so we think it is a good time to explain a little more graphically about the TOYOTA HYBRID System – Racing...

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JAXA develop Conductive Heat-resistant Insulating for EV motors

Nippon Kayaku Co., LTD. (KAYAKU) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully developed a motor coil that can maintain its maximum power more than two times longer than a...

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PolyPlus develop 800 watt hours/kilogram lithium-air cells

In the opening scene of the iconic movie of the 1960s, The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock, at a party to celebrate his college degree, is given one word of advice for his future: “Plastics.” Were young...

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VW E-Up! Spotted CHAdeMO charging in Sweden

Volkswagen's E-Up! electric hatch back was recently spotted testing near Gotenberg in Sweden. The Swedish blog reporter who stumbled across the E-Up! unattended at a local charging station noted...

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GM launches Spark EV electric motor production

Until now, electric motors and drive units – the heart and soul of electric vehicles – have been mostly imports. General Motors today commemorated becoming the first U.S.-based automaker to...

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Aluminium-air battery can power EVs for 1,600km [VIDEO]

Phinergy, an Israeli developer of metal-air energy systems, has demonstrated a new type of aluminum-air battery that is capable of providing enough energy to power an electric vehicle (EV) for up to...

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Energy Department Offers $50M to Advance EV Technologies

The Energy Department on March 8 announced more than $50 million in funding for new projects that will accelerate the development of advanced plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) technologies to improve...

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IBM to unveil ‘moonshot’ Lithium Air Battery

IBM plans to build a prototype next year of an alternative it calls “lithium air” that would mark a big step forward by packing in more storage capacity. While improving the technology depends on...

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The Super Supercapacitor [VIDEO]

THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 GE FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition. Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth....

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Batteries of the Future – Lithium-Air [VIDEO]

The mechanics of lithium air battery technology illustrated by Don Siegel, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. View the full hour...

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