I recently stumbled across Lion Electric Vehicles. These guys have some great new technology that enables you to hop-up your existing hybrid by swapping out your existing batteries with new batteries can greatly increase your range.
And even more incredible is that they are selling Ford Escape Hybrids that have already been modified with their new technology. Changes to the battery pack and the sensor program allow it to run on EV entirely within city speed ranges. On the highway it operates as an ICE vehicle with electric boost.
These guys are based out of VA, but have facilities all over the world. It is nice to see a US company developing new technology that will help power the new energy-independence economy. I am hopeful that our current energy crisis well help pour capital into companies like Lion which will help develop the new technologies required to achieve our goal of energy independence.
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In a speech today at Fresno State University in California, the Republican presidential candidate outlined his proposal for a $300 million prize for new technology that would be 30% cheaper than current batteries and have “the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars.” He did not offer any technical specifics! I guess if he could have, we would not need a “prize”. I like the concept, but we need to pump more then $300 million into the search for alternate energy. I would like to see $100 Billion a year for the next 10 years.
McCain called the taxpayer-funded prize — $1 for every man, woman and child — “a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency.” If $1 is cheap, why not $333 a year? Maybe then we can make a real difference.
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Also tagged 10 years, alternate energy, California, electric cars, Energy, Fresno, fresno state university, McCain, new technology, oil, oil dependency, plug in hybrids, prize, proposal, Republican, republican presidential candidate, speech, technology, University
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Daimler has announced that it is jumping on the growing electric car bandwagon, with plans to roll-out a Mercedes-Benz and Smart EV in 2010.
As far as the Smart model goes, there is currently a fleet of 100 first-generation Smart electric cars running in London, and it’s a fair bet that the new cars will be at least roughly based on these.
No decision has been made regarding the price for the EV models. According to Zetsche, “That depends on whether we sell the batteries with the car or lease them. The willingness (on the part of consumers) to pay more is limited.”
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