Chrysler is testing electric-Van

ponedjeljak, 24.01.2011.

Chrysler is testing electric-Van

The U.S. car company Chrysler has unveiled an electric version of its Grand Voyager vans running in the U.S. under the name Town & Country. In a test project receives U.S. government consolidated U.S. Postal Service (USPS) four units of the electric vehicle. Currently the fleet of state-owned postal company consists of 10,000 vans the Chrysler brand. Together with USPS and other partners in the ailing automaker seeks a grant from the feeder bowl of the Transportation Electrification Program of Economic get.

It was launched by the U.S. Department of Energy, and serves the long run electric vehicles in the U.S. auto market to be established. If Chrysler and its partners should be given a subsidy, then the car company could build a whole fleet of electric postal vehicles for USPS. The utility ConEd, DTE and Duke have the task to upgrade the post-stations with electricity charging points. The electric-Van Grand Voyager gets its energy from batteries of the Strategic Partners A123 Systems.

The company is a manufacturer of lithium iron phosphate batteries and is working in battery manufacturing with nanotechnology. The world's car manufacturers have begun test projects such as BMW with its Mini E. The tests are used to find out how economical the electric cars work and whether they can be used in everyday life.

RWE buys into electric cars

The energy group RWE AG is getting into the market for electric cars and support the automaker Daimler in tests with the electric version of the Smart small car. The company has adopted a partnership with ADAC. The Traffic Club will analyze the RWE-vehicle fleet in terms of environmental friendliness. Germany's capital Berlin will be testing the testing ground for hundreds of electric Smart cars with Daimler, RWE. In the Ruhr area charging stations are built, taking the first in Mehlheim in the local ADAC office.

According to RWE chief executive Juergen Grossmann over "World Online" (11/05/2009) 90 percent of car drivers would go every day not more than 100 miles. On short distances, the electric car have great advantages and therefore it is, according to the energy company but close to the cars of the future will be powered with electricity. The goal of the electricity supplier is a viable alternative to the internal combustion engine. It should be able to afford, according to Grossman every driver an electric car.

The electric cars are gaining in importance in coming years and will replace today's cars slowly but surely. The high cost and limited range, however, must be solved before in the electric vehicles. These are the two main reasons why a significant majority of people currently not planning to buy an electric car.

Nissan launches electric car production from 2010

The Japanese carmaker Nissan will next year begin producing the first mass-produced electric cars. The vehicles are produced in the Oppama and the annual production capacity amounts to 50,000 units. The capacity will then be extended to 2012. The electric cars run on high performance lithium-ion battery and is scheduled to begin a major marketing from the year 2012.

The auto manufacturer in the world their focus to the development of electric vehicles because it is the future and see his cars with internal combustion engines in ten to twenty years to be as rare on the streets today. The crude oil will soon be used up and the rise in fuel prices over the next few years. Today's motorists are willing to buy electric cars, but it must drop the purchase price and range are increased. Currently available electric vehicles like the Twike have a single charge range of up to 150 kilometers.

The purchase price of the Twike is around 16,000 euros for it but the buyer will receive a high-performance environmentally friendly vehicle for short to medium distances. The research departments of car companies and battery manufacturers are working on new and better battery connected to the goal of falling prices and higher reaches.

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