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Patent-Applied-For Lithium-Sulfur Battery Promises Low Cost, Safety, Quadruple Energy Density
This month, federally sponsored scientists at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) publicized their creation of an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with about four-times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery – and this one is being prepared for commercial applications. Stories of close-but-not-quite-ready battery chemistry promising to one day multiply electric car range and vault
Culture & Market
2013 EDTA Conference: An Electrifying Meeting of the Minds
This week we spent a couple of days in Washington, D.C. to attend the annual Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) Conference that took place June 10-12. The synergistic get-together of EDTA’s 110 members is a who’s-who list of key players pushing forward the electrification of transportation, and it is an eye opener. Here one gets
Culture & Market
CAFE Rules: Only 1-3 percent of cars need to be electric by 2025
The advent of the electric car is upon us, but despite implications to the contrary, don’t look to Uncle Sam to be as much of a direct driver of this anticipated paradigm shift as some may have previously supposed. In other quarters, there has been much talk of automakers needing to develop electrified cars to
Hybrid Car News
Your Kid’s Porsche
Following father’s day, here is a neat little car most dads would’ve loved to have when they were a kid. The newest item from the Porsche Driver’s Selection is a Go-Kart which, in Porsche’s words, puts children from the age of five behind the wheel of a sporty Porsche machine. The Go-Kart, which is about
Audi: Improving the Breed
One week before Le Mans, Audi lifted the veil on how the technology it is using in racing is also beneficial to production cars. Audi said that 15 years of engine development have been shaping Audi’s Le Mans prototype racing commitment. Through intensive development work the engineers have repeatedly compensated for the restrictions imposed by
Ford Cut CO2 By 37 Percent Since 2000; Aiming For 30-Percent Less By 2025
Between the year 2000 and 2012, Ford Motor Company’s own analysis of its environmental progress revealed it cut CO2 emissions by 37 percent. Looking at the decade and a half between 2010 and 2025, Ford says it expects to whittle back CO2 by an additional 30 percent. These results followed the company’s 14th annual Sustainability
KLD’s OneDrive System Is Gaining Traction
If talks now underway with automakers are successful, KLD Energy Technologies may in due time contribute its OneDrive propulsion technology not just to the off-highway utility vehicle and scooter pictured, but to a composite-bodied series plug-in hybrid passenger car produced by a maker with household name-brand recognition. This we learned from KLD’s business development manager
PowerDisc Solving Fuel Cells’ Unequal Current Distribution
PowerDisc Development Corporation has announced that its eFlow has solved one of the most challenging issues within the fuel cell industry: unequal current distribution. PowerDisc Development Corporation is a fuel cell company based in Vancouver BC. “The fuel cell industry has spent a significant amount of time and money solving issues that stem from non-uniform
Trio Of New Diesel Models Coming From Audi
Audi is making a big diesel push, introducing three more TDI models. Audi is expanding its TDI models with the A6 TDI, A7 TDI and Q5 TDI. These new TDI clean diesel models join the newly-introduced A8 L TDI, and highly-successful Q7 TDI. EPA estimated fuel economy figures for the new clean diesel introductions are