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Quick Charge Battery Developments

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The holy grail of battery development is a battery with high capacity plus the ability to discharge and then recharge quickly, or translated into vehicle terms, a battery that holds the energy equivalent of the standard gas tank that you can recharge as quickly as a gas station fill up. Supercapacitors can charge and discharge quickly but their energy density is low. So how … [Read more...]

Electro Scrambler by Luca Bar

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Luca Bar is back with a new, but very vintage, design, this time for an electric scrambler. He designed the Electro Scrambler to look like a retro off roader, something you might have seen forty years ago with a name like Triumph or BSA on the tank. This one has the advantage of 2 wheel drive, something easy to do with an electric since hub motors need no mechanical drive, just … [Read more...]

Electric Vehicles Meet the Public

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281 and 67. Those are how many Chevy Volts and Nissan Leafs sold in February. These numbers are lower than January's 321 and 87. Despite fanfare, huge investment and tax credits, the sales aren't exactly electric, or as one witty observer put it, Nissan is having trouble turning over a new Leaf. Both of these vehicles are being sold by large auto manufacturers with a wide … [Read more...]

Mission R Electric Race Bike

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Mission Motors unveiled their new racebike for the 2011 TTXGP, the Mission-R. Even the most diehard fans of conventional motorcycles will have to admit, the design of this electric racer is every bit as pleasing to the eye as your average internal combustion racer. It packs a substantial performance punch, as well. Powered by a 141 horsepower liquid-cooled 3-phase AC … [Read more...]

IET Integrated Electric Transmission Motorcycle from SMRE Engineering

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Look at any electric motorcycle these days, whether TTXGP competitor or one of the first general purpose commuters and you'll notice one thing is missing, the shift lever. Electric motors have all of this torque available so you just twist the electric throttle and pour the electrons to the motor. Want to go faster? Spin the motor faster. SMRE Engineering of Italy, … [Read more...]

Mission Motors Launches Mission Electric Vehicle Technology

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Mission Motors is known to most of us for their Mission One electric motorcycle, but, when you're working on that sort of thing every day, it only stands to reason you'll come up with some pretty cool technology that could work in any electric drivetrain. So, Mission Motors announced MissionEVT, their high performance electric vehicle powertrain division. Press release … [Read more...]