Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The rebooted Aptera Motors has teamed with Elaphe Propulsion Technologies on a long-range, volume production electric vehicle powered by in-wheel motors. Aptera, initially known as Accelerated Composites, formed in 2005 to bring highly efficient, three-wheeled vehicles to the market ( earlier post ), went out of business in 2011.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2019
Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. Three Wheels United (Bangalore, India) is using finance and technology to decarbonize the auto rickshaw market. Each of the 10 2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners will receive $25,000 in prize money.
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2009
The Piaggio Group has introduced the MP3 Hybrid, a plug-in hybrid version of its MP3 three-wheeled scooter. With a grid-chargeable Li-ion battery pack, the Piaggio MP3 Hybrid reduces both fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by more than 50%. The MP3 hybrid. Click to enlarge.
Revenge of the Electric Car
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Myers’s NmG—or no more gas—is a three-wheel, one-seat vehicle that can travel up to 75 mph and as far as 50 miles in its lithium-battery model. V2G stands for “vehicle-to-grid,&# a technology system being developed to enable electric cars to store power and sell it back to the grid. It costs about $30,000.
Baua Electric
JULY 9, 2024
US-based GaN semiconductor producer Transphorm has released a new 300 W DC-to-DC GaN reference design for two- and three-wheeled EV battery chargers. It features convection cooling without forced air, output power of 300 W, output voltage of 48 V/6 A, 380 V/0.9 peak efficiency and power density of 36.5
Baua Electric
JULY 24, 2024
Nearly a thousand of the hand-built three-wheeled electric vehicles were delivered between 2013 and 2019, when an unfortunate bankruptcy seemed to mark a regrettable end to the world’s first production electric bike car. Remember the ELF? It was one of the first ever electric bike cars to actually reach production.
The Truth About Cars
JANUARY 9, 2025
Its basically a hyper-efficient EV that can be charged via the local electrical grid or by way of the solar panels situated conspicuously on its roof. Designed to be as lightweight as possible, the car boasts only three wheels with a body composed largely of carbon fiber and has a drag coefficient of just 0.13.
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