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ZF and start-up Levant Power partnering on first fully active, regenerative suspension for automobiles

Green Car Congress

founded in 2009 out of MIT ( earlier post ), is an emerging technology company headquartered working to develop the first fully active, regenerative suspension for the automotive, trucking, mass transit, and defense industries. Levant’s proprietary fluid porting geometries allow for the Gerotor to perform efficiently in a damper environment.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech. In such an emergency, a bidirectional EV with charge to spare could come to the rescue. In principle, this problem might have been solved with software to govern the charging and discharging.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By

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