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what is kms per litre?
Nissan reaches 50% thermal efficiency with next-generation e-POWER system; STARC
Nissan announced a breakthrough in engine efficiency, reaching 50% thermal efficiency with its in-development, next-generation e-POWER system. Nissan’s e-POWER system utilizes an on-board gasoline engine to provide electrical energy to the e-powertrain battery pack. Nissan’s latest approach t...
What is kms per litre efficiency. This will be most important criteria.
Nissan reaches 50% thermal efficiency with next-generation e-POWER system; STARC
Nissan announced a breakthrough in engine efficiency, reaching 50% thermal efficiency with its in-development, next-generation e-POWER system. Nissan’s e-POWER system utilizes an on-board gasoline engine to provide electrical energy to the e-powertrain battery pack. Nissan’s latest approach t...
PHEVs should have range of atleast 60 kms to be pollution free in cities
2021 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV features upgraded powertrain, enlarged battery pack
Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) announced pricing and availability of the 2021 Mitsubishi Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) crossover. Outlander PHEV is substantially upgraded for 2021, and features a revised powertrain, an enlarged battery pack offering extended all...
Pl give yearly sale volume by brand and total nos. Percentage without actual figures is incomplete picture.
IDTechEx: Sales of electric motorcycles in Europe grew 50% y-o-y in 2020
IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. (Although steep, the 50% growth is half that experienced in 2019 from the year before.) This growth is driven by continued policy support from governmen...
GM s, Ford , Mahindra s pl note how slow you are on EVs. Even new Vietnam company is introducing 3 worldclass evs at a time
Vietnam’s VinFast launches 3 electric crossovers with autonomous capabilities; two headed for N.A. and Europe
Vietnam’s first carmaker, VinFast, is launching three electric crossovers: VF31, VF32, VF33. All three offer a range of steering and self-driving assistance features and are equipped with safety and intelligence features. VinFast VF31, a C-segment SUV, features a 150 kW permanent magnet motor...
This is what the world needs badly to kill pollution and congestion.Toyoto has lost electric car race. better late then never.
Toyota launches C+pod ultra-compact battery electric vehicle in Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation announced a limited launch of the C+pod ultra-compact battery electric vehicle (BEV) to corporate users, local governments and other organizations that have been exploring new options to drive the popularization of BEVs. Toyota plans to further promote the establishm...
What is the efficiency in terms of kms per litre?
what is expected price and how does it compare with IC engine car.
Nissan introduces all-new Note e-POWER AWD in Japan
Nissan launched the all-new Note e-POWER AWD compact car, with dual electric motors that give the driver enhanced control and acceleration. The car comes exclusively with Nissan’s e-POWER electrified powertrain—a non-plug-in series hybrid configuration (earlier post)—and is scheduled to go o...
Production start is still far in time.
ROUSH CleanTech enters EV market with Class 6 electric vehicles
ROUSH CleanTech, known for its advanced clean transportation solutions, is entering the electric truck market. ROUSH is providing Penske Truck Leasing with all-new Ford F-650 battery electric vehicles later this year for deployment across Southern California. Penske has been expanding its ...
Let Fisker hit the road . It is all talk till date...
Danish ride-hailing service Viggo orders 300 Fisker Ocean EVs
Viggo, a technology-driven Danish ride-hailing service, has ordered 300 Fisker Ocean electric SUVs, marking Viggo’s largest single order to date. Viggo, founded in 2019, is aiming to challenge the standards for urban transportation through advanced data-driven innovation, zero-emission cars and ...
Natural gas is available in few places but electric to methane can be produced everywhere.
European power-to-methane company Electrochaea opens California subsidiary
Electrochaea GmbH, a European provider of renewable methane technology, has established a California-based US subsidiary, Electrochaea Corporation, to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its technology in North America. Electrochaea employs a patented biocatalyst (BioCat) to convert low-cost ...
A cute vehicle. With improved technology inputs it can be big success.
Canadian startup launches INDIEGOGO funding campaign for low-cost electric self-charging solar tricycle produced in Pakistan
A Canadian startup has launched an INDIEGOGO funding campaign to support the development of the VEGAN electric self-charging solar tricycle. The VEGAN is a lightweight multipurpose hybrid electric-self-charging solar tricycle. The team has not yet produced a working demo for their concept. The t...
What is raw material?
REG plans to boost Geismar renewable diesel production to 340M gallons per year
Renewable Energy Group, Inc. plans to undertake a capacity expansion of its Geismar, Louisiana biorefinery by 250 million gallons annually to 340 million gallons per year. The announcement follows a thorough review and site selection process. Construction should begin in mid to late 2021 with ta...
No details about vehicle.
First BMW electric iX3 comes off production line at BMW Brilliance Automotive in Shenyang, China
The first fully-electric BMW iX3 has left the production line at the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture (BBA) in Shenyang, China. The workforce at the BBA Plant Dadong in Shenyang already celebrated the successful start of production on 29 September 2020. In addition to intelligent manu...
Why has US slept all these yrs. China is enemy of the world . India knows these . All trade with china is manipulated for price quality etc so US has to start producing all 35 minerals as soon as possible.
How come china alone has these minerals.
President Trump declares US critical mineral supply chain a national emergency
US President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order declaring a “national emergency” to deal with the threat to US security, foreign policy and economy from its “undue reliance” on supplies of critical minerals from “foreign adversaries”—specifically China. Though these minerals are indispens...
Mahindra needs to use its strength to priduce Electrical tractor at the earliest. Company is too slow on electrical front inspite of taking over electrical vehicle manufature and being first mover.Most of their vehicles are never attractive to look at . Company sales are going down on car front. Electrical vehicle is the future and company is too slow on this front.
Mahindra and REE Automotive to establish a strategic collaboration for the development of electric commercial vehicles
Mahindra & Mahindra and REE Automotive signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore development and manufacturing of electric commercial vehicles for global markets. Such a strategic collaboration will leverage REE’s electric vehicle corner module and platform technology of integrati...
When is delivery of ID 3 and 4 going to start. VW has wasted a lot of time.
Volkswagen begins series production of ID.4 in Zwickau; world premiere at end of September
Volkswagen has begun series production of the brand’s first all-electric SUV, the ID.4, in Zwickau. The world premiere of the ID.4 follows at the end of September. With the ID.4, Volkswagen is adding an all-electric vehicle to its offering in the compact SUV class, the world’s largest growth s...
very good news. They should also aim to retrofit old buses to electric at a much reduced cost.
Hamburger Hochbahn to buy up to 530 electric buses from Daimler, MAN and Solaris
Hamburger Hochbahn—one of the biggest public transport carriers in Germany—has announced the list of potential suppliers of 530 electric buses to be delivered between 2021-2125. The approved suppliers are Daimler Buses, MAN and Solaris. The vehicles will be orderd in tranches over the next 5 yea...
Technology now in pipeline to avoid use of rare earths so we will be free from China monopoly.
Adamas: market for magnet rare earth oxides to increase five-fold by 2030
With total magnet rare earth oxide demand forecasted to increase at a CAGR of 9.7% and prices projected to increase at CAGRs of 5.6% to 9.9% over the same period, Adamas Intelligence forecasts that the value of global magnet rare earth oxide consumption will rise five-fold by 2030, from US $2.9...
30 m litres per annum is too small capacity to prove technology. set up atleast 1 lac tons plant to prove technology.
GranBio and NextChem partner to develop cellulosic ethanol market
Brazil-based GranBio announced a strategic alliance with NextChem, the subsidiary of Italian engineering giant Maire Tecnimont dedicated to the energy transition, to co-license its patented technology for the production of second-generation (2G) ethanol worldwide. The partnership will enable ...
methanol based fuel cell will be ideal range extender. Even vehicle like BMW I 3 with range extender will drastically reduce fuel consumption and as battery technology develops IC engine will disappear.
Groupe Renault introduces fuel-cell range extenders into its light commercial electric vehicles
Groupe Renault is extending the range of its electric light commercial vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells. Renault KANGOO Z.E. Hydrogen will be available at the end of 2019 and Renault MASTER Z.E. Hydrogen in 2020. Image credits: Transport Executive Tested since 2014, Groupe Renault’s hydrog...
gevo has not been able to mass produce fuel or useful petrleum product sustitute after initial producing butanol from biomass.
Gevo and Leaf Resources sign joint development agreement for potential use of cellulosic-derived sugars to convert to hydrocarbon molecules
Gevo, Inc. and Leaf Resources, an Australia-based company and one of the world’s leading companies in converting plant biomass into industrial sugars, have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA). The JDA is to explore Gevo’s potential use of cellulosic-derived sugars and glycerol from Leaf ...
vw has been talking about future all the time. With such level of robots a 150 cars increase is nothing.
progress has been slow in reaching markets.
Look at Tesla china plant is ready in record time and first product is on road.
chieper smaller electric cars can find a huge market in Asia and India in particular.
Series production of Volkswagen ID.3 starts at Zwickau in November; complete conversion of plant from ICEV to EV
Series production of Volkswagen’s ID.3 electric vehicle will start at the Zwickau vehicle plant in November. Currently, the last robots are being installed and the assembly line is being commissioned. At Zwickau, Volkswagen is converting an entire vehicle plant from 100% internal combustion eng...
good beginning
cellulose ethanol is very promising technology but till date no large scale plant has come up.
Farmers can benifit and millions of jobs can be created in countryside once technology succeeds.
Clariant concludes testing of conversion of miscanthus biomass into lignocellulosic sugars and ethanol
Clariant has conducted tests on approximately 30 tons of miscanthus provided by INA, Croatia’s leading oil and gas company. The miscanthus biomass was harvested and baled at the INA demonstration site in Croatia in February this year and shipped for processing to Clariant’s pre-commercial sunli...
This idea of offering total operation package at less then diesel operating cost is great.
It should be encouraged by govts to do away from heavy killer petroleum pollution.
CNH Industrial to take $250M strategic stake in Nikola; partnership on fuel-cell and battery-electric heavy-duty trucks
CNH Industrial N.V., the owner of IVECO and FPT Industrial, intends to enter into a strategic and exclusive heavy-duty truck partnership with Nikola Corporation to accelerate industry transformation towards emission neutrality of Class 8 heavy-duty trucks in North America and Europe through the...
why do we technology when simple push and care is required. spend your energy where it is badly needed
Bosch developing smart electric drives for baby strollers; Emmaljunga NXT90e debuts next year
Bosch is developing e-stroller systems—an assistance system for strollers with a range of comfort and safety features including push support and an automatic braking function; connectivity via a smartphone app; an alarm function, and a variety of high-tech sensors. The variable Bosch syste...
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