Getting free electricity gas station opened in Cologne

ponedjeljak, 27.12.2010.

Getting free electricity gas station opened in Cologne

The energy company Rhein-Energie has opened near the new market, a first free charging station. The gas station has been named Tank and offers not only can fill up for free electricity but also to try out an electric car. It can be between five electric vehicles of the French electric car manufacturer Mega elected including a mini truck. One of the electric car is eCity the Mega and is an ideal vehicle for the city. It has a maximum amount of 64 km / h during the range on one battery charge to 65 kilometers.

The Mega eCity can be just like the other four car models for 5.50 euros per hour and 5 cents per kilometer to be tested. The French company has an annual production of 15,000 units of its electric vehicles. The electric cars are like gasoline cars but have a powerful electric motor. be made available to the vehicles of the company Carsharing. It may be the same two cars at the gas station charged with new energy. According to Rhein-Energie, the energy is in the service station from a hydroelectric plant, and therefore was not only carbon neutral but also environmentally friendly.

Toyota secures lithium deposits

The Japanese carmaker Toyota is expecting a boom in electric and hybrid vehicles and has therefore secured a precaution lithium mining rights for a salt lake in Argentina. The trading subsidiary Toyota Tshusho and the Australian mining group Orocobre will promote a joint venture from the year 2012 in the salt lake Salar de Olaroz valuable lithium. The delivery will amount to two years later, the company says each year to 15,000 tonnes of lithium.

This amount would be enough to produce three million hybrid cars. The participation of Toyota Tshusho in the joint venture will be supported by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti) at 25 percent. The global lithium reserves are limited and it is not surprising that the automaker slowly back up mining rights by not falling into the grave situation as the solar cell manufacturers with the raw material silicon. The solar cell manufacturers had not expected such a strong demand and high prices then had to buy the silicon.

Fraunhofer Institute relies on electric car batteries

The Fraunhofer Institute is a focus on the development of electric car batteries and wants to set up a new working group. The scientists of the locations of Erlangen and Nuremberg plan the development of storage systems to be integrated in electric cars. As part of a European project is currently being worked on it for drives to achieve an improvement of electric cars. The electric motors are to be improved in efficiency by 30 percent.

The electric cars erfeuen Although increasing in popularity but the short range and the still rather high purchase prices or deter the majority of motorists. It will succeed only the breakthrough when the range and performance is increased significantly. Currently have to pay for an electric vehicle with at least 100 km range around 15,000 euros. The Twike and CityEL are the most successful electric vehicles on the European market electric car. Hand, the CityEL are acquired for 4,000 euros.

Researchers develop body parts as a battery

The researchers at the University of Imperial College in London are currently working on developing a new composite. The composite is made of carbon and should be able to store electricity. The material should also have such a low weight that you can use it for body parts and use. In a test project in cooperation with the Swedish automaker Volvo is the boot floor is made for installation in a hybrid car. The boot floor is to relieve an electricity storage, the battery.

According to the scientists, it is possible in the near future, that roofs, hoods and doors are made of the composite. If that does innovative energy storage technology, then it would be possible that the heavy normal batteries could be redundant. As a model could housing of mobile phones, laptops and GPS devices are also made of this material and tap them for their electricity. But it will probably still take some years to mature, the new composite material and comes on the market.

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