Demonstrating its commitment to electrified vehicles, Ford is committing $135 million at its new Advanced Electrification Center (formerly the Ford Advanced Engineering Center) in Dearborn, Mich. Ford boasts some 1,000 engineers now working on vehicle electrification with 60 added just this year and more on the way. The new center will allow the automaker to [...]
You have to do more than buy a Toyota Prius, if you want to reverse global warming.
The struggling American battery maker A123 Systems, which got a green technology grant from the U.S. government, has said a Chinese auto parts maker is looking to take a controlling stake.
FOR a company trying to put wireless charging devices on electric cars, road trips can be interesting. WiTricity is the company, based near Boston, that has partnerships with Audi, Mitsubishi and Toyota to put wireless charging on electric cars, possibly as early as the 2015 model year. WiTricity licenses technology, developed at M.I.T., to transfer power between a pair of copper coils resonating at the same electromagnetic frequency.
BMW is currently working on a new electric scooter and has given us a preview of it with the BMW C evolution near-production prototype. BMW has recognized a growing problem in city centers: growing traffic volume, rising energy costs and constantly increasingly stringent CO2 restrictions on vehicles. BMW sees these issues as challenges of the [...]
BMW is currently working on a new electric scooter and has given us a preview of it with the BMW C evolution near-production prototype. BMW has recognized a growing problem in city centers: growing traffic volume, rising energy costs and constantly increasingly stringent CO2 restrictions on vehicles. BMW sees these issues as challenges of the [...]
BMW is currently working on a new electric scooter and has given us a preview of it with the BMW C evolution near-production prototype. BMW has recognized a growing problem in city centers: growing traffic volume, rising energy costs and constantly increasingly stringent CO2 restrictions on vehicles. BMW sees these issues as challenges of the [...]
As I look back over the year of providing content for Discovery's revamped Website, I reflect on how far the auto industry and the infrastructure have come in integrating the two. One of first pieces I penned here centered around daily struggles driving an electric vehicle. I was testing a Chevrolet Volt Extended-Range Electric Vehicle [...]
As I look back over the year of providing content for Discovery's revamped Website, I reflect on how far the auto industry and the infrastructure have come in integrating the two. One of first pieces I penned here centered around daily struggles driving an electric vehicle. I was testing a Chevrolet Volt Extended-Range Electric Vehicle [...]
As I look back over the year of providing content for Discovery's revamped Website, I reflect on how far the auto industry and the infrastructure have come in integrating the two. One of first pieces I penned here centered around daily struggles driving an electric vehicle. I was testing a Chevrolet Volt Extended-Range Electric Vehicle [...]