9 Key Chapters of the “Build Your Own Electric Vehicle” Book

The Build Your Own Electric Vehicle paperback book by by Seth Leitman and Bob Brant is one of the top selling manual for electric car enthusiasts. Anyone who is planning to convert a gas guzzler to run on pure electricity would need a conversion manual to assist them. The following are 9 key chapters covered [...] Related Articles: Where to Get an Electric Car Kit With rising fuel costs, more and more people and are... Convert Gasoline to Electric Car – Best Way to Handle It Since t

Stop Global Warming with Electric Cars

For quite a while now, both the administration and environmental agencies have been endeavoring to find a technique to reduce the atmospheric pollution. Smog is a constant reminder of the pollution in a great many cities and this is best illustrated by the air quality in Los Angeles. Scientists point emissions from gasoline powered cars as the primary cause of the trouble. The destructive forces that are destroying the ozone layer are the emissions from vehicles, something that is now common k

Report: Bentley planning hybrid powertrain for next-generation Continental

Bentley has been pretty vocal about going green. The automaker previously said that it plans on reducing CO2 emissions by 40 percent, a move that could include a Bentley hybrid. According to AutoExpress , the next-generation Continental will get a light aluminum body along with a new hybrid powertrain, which will be capable of running gasoline or on biofuel – similar to the Continental Supersports. Bentley’s engineering boss, Dr. Ulrich Eichhorn told AutoExpress that the Supersports alrea

Electric Car Nano-Batteries Aim For 500 Mile Range

An anonymous reader writes “Consortium members read like a Whose-Who in technology research for the Battery 500 Project which aims to use nanotechnology to extend the range of all-electric cars 200 miles beyond the 300-mile range of gasoline powered cars. IBM, the University of California at Berkeley and all five of our U.S. National Labs are collaborating to make the 500-mile electric car battery. Within two years, they promise to have a new kind of battery technology in place for the 500-mile

New Electric Motor is 50% Smaller with 2x More Torque

Less is More With Electric Motors Too // Electric motors are very efficient compared to gasoline or diesel engines, but it seems like there is still room for improvement. One promising company working on this is a spin-off from Oxford university called Yasa Motors (Yasa stands for Yokeless And Segmented Armature). Their electric motor was first developed for the Morgan LIFEcar high-performance hydrogen car, but its characteristics – 50% of the volume giving 2x the torque for the same po

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