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First charging stations in Southern Italy installed
The first public charging station for electric vehicles in Bari and in all of southern Italy was inaugurated last week. This is the first public charging station in a distribution network that will be comprised of 50 Enel charging points for electric vehicles, located in key areas throughout the city, chosen in conjunction with the Bari municipal government based on careful analysis of the area and its traffic flows.
Global sales agreement between Kleenspeed Technologies & Leo Motors
KleenSpeed Technologies and Leo Motors announce a global sales agreement to jointly represent and sell their products and services. The Sales Agent Agreement was signed on January 15, 2013 by Timothy Collins CEO & President of KleenSpeed Technologies, Inc. and John Lee CEO & Chairman of Leo Motors at the Leo Motors HQ near Seoul Korea. KleenSpeed will focus on the Americas and Leo Motors will cover Asian markets.
DOD electric vehicles will supply power to local grids
As the military continues to move away from dependence on fossil fuels, the Defense Department plans to spend $20 million on a fleet of electric vehicles unique in their ability to export their own power and offset their cost.
Electric Cars: Success By A Different Route
Pure electric cars are a disaster. On-road pure electric cars continue to sell at a level barely above one quarter of the sales of pure electric golf cars or a tenth of pure electric forklifts. Those golf cars are profitable but in a saturated market and, because that business is going nowhere, Ingersoll Rand is thinking of selling subsidiary Club Car, according to the Wall Street Journal. Club Car is the world's largest golf car manufacturer. It...
Vibrancy in Electric Buses Contrasts Gloom in Electric Cars
The IDTechEx report, Electric Buses and Taxis 2012-2022 concentrates primarily on buses defined as enclosed vehicles with a driver that have been designed for stage carriage or transit work and carrying at least 10 passengers. The market for these electric buses and taxis at ex-factory prices will rise 8.7 times from $6.24 billion in 2011 to $54 billion in 2021. Of course, the largest part of that will be buses and detailed figures to 2022 are gi...
IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2012 Award Winners
The annual printed electronics award winners were announced at the IDTechEx Printed Electronics event this week in Santa Clara, California - the World's largest event on the topic. The awards recognize outstanding progress in the development and commercialization of printed electronics, an industry that produces a huge amount of technical innovation which will be used in many products, and is now being widely adopted.
DoE Awards Up To $120 Million For Battery Hub To Argonne-led Group
A multi-partner team led by Argonne National Laboratory has been selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub. The Hub, to be known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), will combine the R&D firepower of five DOE national laboratories, five universities, and four private firms in an effort aimed at achieving revolutionary advances in battery performance. Advanci...
An $18 billion market for electric vehicle inverters in 2023
The market for electric vehicle inverters, including converters, for both hybrid and pure electric vehicles land, water and air, will grow to $18 billion in 2023 as forecasted in the new IDTechEx report Inverters for Electric Vehicles 2013-2023. The demand for inverters and electric power conversions is already well established in the automation and industrial control industries which are also growing at considerable pace. Therefore, the addition...
GreenPeak launches GP410 ZigBee PRO Green Power chip
GreenPeak Technologies today announced its new GP410 chip offering the new ZigBee PRO Green Power feature for low cost energy harvesting and ultra-long battery life ZigBee applications for the Smart Home. The GP410 IEEE 802.15.4 ZigBee PRO Green Power controller is a fully integrated system-on-chip solution for power harvesting end nodes for light switches, smart home devices, or for applications designed to run on a single battery for many years...
First test run of the MAHLE Range Extender
For vehicles with battery-electric drive, the use of a range extender appears to be a suitable solution to ensure a range approaching that of a conventional vehicle. The Stuttgart specialist MAHLE Powertrain has developed their own range extender, with flexible mounting position, in just 10 months without the support of an OEM.