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Volvo Cars is introducing a range of updates to its entire car line-up, the most prominent of which is an exterior refresh of its fully electric XC40 Recharge. The company also unveiled a single electric motor variant of the pure electric C40 Recharge. C40 Recharge.
The Volvo XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric vehicle, will carry an MSRP of $53,990 when it arrives in US showrooms later this year. The purchase of an XC40 Recharge may qualify for a federal tax credit of up to $7,500. When they become available, over-the-air updates will keep the XC40 Recharge evolving over time.
Volvo Cars has opened order books for the XC40 Recharge P8 AWD ( earlier post ), the company’s first fully electric car which is based on the best-selling SUV, in selected markets. Production and the first customer deliveries of the XC40 Recharge P8 are scheduled to begin later this year.
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If equipment costs were lower, they say, they would install more recharging stations. It could be a virtuous circle: The recharge businesses would do better, EV owners would benefit, and more people would consider buying an EV. In order to fully recharge a 100-kWh battery, the total recharge time is about 80 hours.
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A key person involved in the critical tasks of assembling, servicing, and testing the company’s vehicles and related products is Magdalene Maluta. Recharging a depleted battery takes less than 4 hours, Maluta says. When we do maintenance or service on one, I test each vehicle’s performance personally,” she says.
The charging outlets were created based on binding standards and are compatible with every vehicle type recharged with direct current. This solution allowed to raise the number of seats on board of the buses to 44, many of which will be accessible from the low floor, which makes it easier to travel for persons with reduced mobility.
The hubs connect to other vehicles, including personal vehicles, which serve as “spokes” and are used for travel to nearby areas. To help create a sustainable, low-carbon community, the partnership initiative includes building an energy management system that uses electric vehicles and stationary rechargeable batteries.
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Toyota Motor Corporation is beginning consumer trials of the “i-Road” personal mobility vehicle ( earlier post ) in the Greater Tokyo Area. Driving range is around 30 miles, after which the battery can be fully recharged from a conventional domestic power supply in three hours. Earlier post.).
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WeShare will recharge its fleet on the public charging network in Berlin, including newly created charging points at 70 branches of food retailers Lidl and Kaufland. In later operation, users will receive incentives for recharging vehicles themselves. The number of car sharing users in Germany has risen 14-fold since 2010.
Also as expected, charging at the campus’ medical center was less impacted as medical facilities continued most in-person operations and healthcare workers and patients kept using those charging stations. As expected, charging declined significantly once most campus operations became remote. This reflects nationwide trends.
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The practicality of recharging conflicts with the way car club and car rental cars are used. For shorter trips or one-way journeys, the range is less of a concern although recharging remains problematic. The limited range of electric vehicles will make them unsuitable for most long journeys.
EVA is designed to be recharged in just 15 minutes to cover a realistic range of 200 km (124 miles) based on Singapore driving patterns. The challenges surrounding fast charging include the high electric currents needed and the heat that is consequently generated in the battery pack during the recharging process.
Personal cars and taxi fleets in China are now adopting this technology as well with ambitious targets set by companies for rolling out their own swap station networks. It could be very likely that these OEMs introduce swapping as an alternate recharging strategy there.
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Each day, they will recharge the batteries in their electric car for the next leg of the trip, while giving presentations and workshops about the technologies. The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) includes data from 150,147 households gathered between March 2008 and May 2009 on four levels: household, person, vehicle and travel day.
The EV industry is focusing on the personal car market, trying to make the range as large as possible. We found plenty of times during the day when a portion of taxis could slip off to recharge, even if just for a few minutes. The standard now is 200 miles. We suspected you wouldn’t need as much for taxis.
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