Industrial machinery manufacturer Komatsu has formed an alliance with customers Rio Tinto, BHP, Codelo, and Boliden, to develop zero-emission mining equipment. The Komatsu Greenhouse Gas Alliance will collaborate on product planning, development, testing and deployment of zero-emission mining equipment and infrastructure. The alliance’s initial focus will be Komatsu’s power-agnostic truck concept for a haulage vehicle… Read more »
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Formula E electric racing begins first season as an FIA world championship in Saudi Arabia
Formula E, the urban electric racing series, begins its seventh season, and its first as an official FIA World Championship, on February 26 and 27, with a nighttime double header on the streets of Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. This season’s events will be broadcast live in over 150 countries around the world. Formula E has inked… Read more »
Lotus to launch pure electric SUV in 2022
The Geely brand Lotus plans to launch a luxury electric SUV in 2022. The vehicle, code-named Lambda, has been in development since 2016, and was originally planned to be a hybrid, but the growing market for EVs, especially in China, inspired the company to make it an all-electric model. According to Autocar, the new Lotus… Read more »
Did poor Honda e sales spur the decision to buy EV credits from Tesla?
Emissions regulations in the EU are getting tighter, and the law provides for substantial fines for automakers that can’t comply—in some cases, as much as €2,375 per car sold. This is the reason that European EV sales have been soaring, and European automakers have a massive number of new electrified models in their pipelines (did… Read more »
Formula E begins season 5 with a new car and more powerful battery pack
The fifth season of the FIA Formula E Championship electric racing series got under way last week in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Antonio Felix da Costa, driving for BMW i Andretti Motorsport, took the checkered flag – his second Formula E win. This season will consist of 13 races in 12 cities on 5 continents,… Read more »
Dendrobium’s D-1 electric hypercar wows the elite at royal garden party
British startup Dendrobium Automotive recently made its public debut at the ultra-exclusive Salon Privé garden party at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The Duke of Marlborough was among the distinguished guests who were keen to discuss the new zero-emission D-1 hypercar. The electric Dendrobium D-1 was developed in the UK with the support of the famous… Read more »
Schaeffler packs 1,184 hp Formula E powertrain into a 4-door sedan
What would happen if you took four motors from a Formula E race car and used them to power a four-door sedan? Formula E champion Lucas di Grassi and Schaeffler CTO Prof. Peter Gutzmer just had to find out, and the result is the Audi 4ePerformance concept. This “Frankenstein-like” supercar sports four electric motors, one… Read more »
Xtrac introduces new integrated lightweight EV transmission system
Xtrac has added a new product to its Integrated Lightweight Electric Vehicle (ILEV) line of transmission systems. The new P1166 is featured in Williams Advanced Engineering’s FW-EVX lightweight EV platform concept, which Williams unveiled at the recent Low Carbon Vehicle Show in Millbrook, UK. The P1166 transmission, fully integrated with a YASA P400 motor-generator, powers… Read more »
Geely Emgrand EV may foreshadow future Volvo models
Chinese automakers are selling large numbers of EVs at home, but so far, none has managed to crack the US or European passenger car markets. That could change before long – Auto Express reports that Geely, which owns Volvo, is rumored to be close to launching a new brand aimed at Europe, and that both… Read more »
New study suggests advanced support systems for energy-efficient driving
Obviously, hybrids can save gas, but reaching the true potential of the technology requires drivers to adopt a driving style that maximizes fuel economy. A team from the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany and the University of Southampton in the UK attempted to quantify these driving techniques. In “Ecodriving in hybrid electric vehicles –… Read more »