Tag Archives: electric drive

Solving Environmental Problems without Business?

2012-7-4 – 12:16 pm

Andy Hoffman. “If business isn’t developing solutions to our sustainability issues, they won’t be developed,” says Andy Hoffman. “If business is not part of the solution, there will be no solution.” Yes and No, Andy. Hoffman is director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. “The reality is that [...]

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Hybrid Locomotives and the Batteries They Need

2011-8-14 – 7:12 pm

GCC Commentator Toppa Tom opines that hybrid locomotives are “poor choices for cruising, even worse when climbs and descents are moderate ‘RR grades’”. Like the challenge of over-the-road trucking, hills that are long and / or far apart, mean you need a really BIG battery.

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Urban Transit Light Rail Grows

2010-12-27 – 5:50 pm

“The trains look more like streetcars than anything else. They’re only one or two cars long, and are electrically powered. The narrow footprint of light rail cars allows them to be put in dense urban areas.”

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Seoul Public Transportation System commits to electric drive

2010-12-27 – 2:26 pm

SMG has replaced 5 buses on the Namsan circular routes with electric vehicles and plans to substitute all 14 buses with electric coaches.

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HybriDrive Parallel Propulsion System

2010-12-22 – 12:48 pm

Will such retrofit systems prove cost-effective?

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A Bus with a High Energy Density Battery and a High Power Battery

2010-12-2 – 6:57 pm

NaS batteries operate at high temperatures, which could be an advantage for Northern cities like Toronto.

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Bay Area to get e-Taxi

2010-10-29 – 8:26 pm

While taxi companies are seeing years of service and savings from hybrid taxis, battery-powered all-electric taxis represent a more stringent test of this form of propulsion.

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A123 gets TS 16949, Whoopee

2010-7-16 – 8:41 am

O.K. Sweep up the confetti and go back to pedaling your lead sled.

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Developing an EV Charging Infrastructure in Japan

2010-5-21 – 12:43 pm

Means Japanese telematics

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More EV Charge Points in Chinese Cities

2010-5-18 – 4:17 pm

Shanghai is next city for plug-in infrastructure development.

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