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Bosch Powers the Automotive Sector Toward an Electrified Future

Cars That Think

Their gleaming galleries feature many historic and influential cars, almost all of them powered by petroleum-fueled internal combustion (IC) engines. One of these components is the inverter, which changes direct current (DC) from the car’s batteries into alternating current (AC) to power its drive motor (Figure 1).

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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Electric Cars

DIY Electric Car

Unlike our fuel powered cars, these cars work on electric motors which basically rely on electrically charged batteries to function. All you have to do to power it up is charge its batteries and you''re good to go! Electric energy produced by thermal, wind, hydro or solar power plants do not cause any pollution either.

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IEA report calls for no investment in new fossil fuel supply and end to sales of ICE cars by 2035

Green Car Congress

The world has a viable pathway to building a global energy sector with net-zero emissions in 2050, but it is narrow and requires an unprecedented transformation of how energy is produced, transported and used globally, according to a new special report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Road Test: 2022 Kia EV6

Clean Fleet Report

Kia has been one of the leaders in value-priced EVs over the last few years, but their offerings had been based on vehicles that started life as conventional internal combustion cars. Initially, there are five versions of the EV6 with two different batteries, rear (RWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD), and between 167 and 320 hp.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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The PHEV does not require the heavy, costly batteries required by other electric cars, nor does it suffer from a limited range or poor freeway performance. It solves the storage problems faced by the electric utility companies in absorbing and adapting to the highly variable power and energy generated by solar and wind. Conclusions.

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How to improve EV traction motor efficiency

Charged EVs

Regular readers of Charged don’t need to be told that the typical EV drivetrain is way more efficient from battery to wheels than its ICE-based equivalent, but it is perhaps less well-known that the approximate drivetrain efficiency ranges from 75-90% for the EV to a rather less impressive 20-35% for the ICE vehicle.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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regenerated in a reactor, similar to a battery. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. copper and insulation layer by layer, instead of winding wires. temperature ranges similar to internal combustion engines. This process.

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