How Toyota Will Be First With a Fuel-Cell Car.

oyota says it’s made several advances to hydrogen fuel cells that will make them significantly cheaper, and will allow the company to sell a car using the low-pollution technology in 2015—years before its competitors.

The car will be expensive: between $50,000 and $100,000. But that’s a big improvement over the million-dollar cost of experimental fuel-cell vehicles in years past.

FAGOR EDERLANek COMARTH ENGINEERING-eko kapital sozialean partehartze garrantzitsua eskuratu du.

Laneko ibilgailu elektrikoen produkzioan Europako liderretako bat izatea du helburu Fagor Ederlanek. Horretarako, MONDRAGON korporazioko kide den kooperatibak akordioa sinatu du Comarth Engineering ibilgailu elektrikoen fabrikatzailearekin.

La actividad exploratoria de un proyecto del BAC de MONDRAGON culmina con la entrada en el capital de COMARTH ENGINEERING S.L.

La oportunidad de la participación en el capital social de COMARTH ENGINEERING S.L. por parte de FAGOR EDERLAN S.COOP. es el resultado de la actividad exploratoria llevada a cabo en el marco de un proyecto perteneciente a la 2º generación del BAC de MONDRAGON que originalmente se denominaba “Barredoras de Viales Eléctricas Híbridas” y que pretendía “la promoción de una nueva actividad empresarial dedicada al diseño y la ingeniería de la integración y el ensamblaje de los equipos de electrificación híbrida serie en una barredora de viales innovadora, que dé respuesta a la demanda existente de vehículos de bajas emisiones y costes de operación reducidos.”

For Tesla Motors, Success Is All About the Batteries.

Most of the news coverage of the Tesla Motors earnings call last night focused on how the company’s stock fell, in spite of the fact that Tesla is on track to meet its sales and margins goals. But in terms of the long term success of the company, a more important part of the call was CEO Elon Musk’s comments about batteries.

Building Cars Out of Batteries Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds.

The high cost and limited range of electric vehicles can make them a tough sell, and their costliest and most limiting component are their batteries.

But batteries also open up new design possibilities because they can be shaped in more ways than gasoline tanks and because they can be made of load-bearing materials. If their chemistries can be made safer, batteries could replace conventional door panels and other body parts, potentially making a vehicle significantly lighter, more spacious, and cheaper. This could go some way toward helping electric cars compete with gas-powered ones.

Ditching the Transmission Allowed Honda’s Accord Hybrid to Hit 50 MPG.

Honda says it has found a way to improve the efficiency of hybrids—and in all likelihood significantly lower the cost to build them. For its new Honda Accord Hybrid, which goes on sale across the U.S. at the end of the month, it’s done away with the car’s transmission.

Hybrids could help automakers meet fuel economy regulations, but their sales are limited by high costs, which are as much as $5,000 more than conventional cars. It may eventually be possible to reduce the price gap to zero, according to a spokesperson from Honda.

Low-carbon cars need another decade of research and innovation

Electric vehicles, hydrogen and other alternative technologies will be niche solutions until advances bring costs down – while existing engine efficiency can still be improved by 20 per cent.

Sensors Could Make Electric-Car Batteries Smaller and Cheaper

Electric-vehicle battery packs could shrink 20 to 30 percent, and make electric vehicles more affordable, if new sensors were developed to monitor the cells in a pack, according to the U.S. government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E). The agency says such sensors could have an even greater effect on hybrid gas-electric vehicle batteries, causing them to shrink by half.

Better sensors could tell what’s happening inside each of the hundreds of cells that make up an electric vehicle’s battery pack, allowing automakers to safely store more energy in them. A $30 million ARPA-E program that’s been underway for about a year is seeking to develop the necessary technology.

Tesla quiere doblar producción en 2014 y sopesa fabricar en Europa.

El fabricante de vehículos eléctricos Tesla Motors ya valora no solo extender su red comercial, sino también incrementar su capacidad de producción a otros continentes.

En una entrevista concedida a la agencia Bloomberg, su fundador y consejero delegado Elon Musk afirmaba que “a largo plazo podremos ver a Tesla estableciendo fábricas en Europa, en otras partes de Estados Unidos y en Asia”. “Dentro de cinco años tendremos disponible un mercado masivo de coches eléctricos”, declaró el multimillonario sudafricano: “empezaremos a ver cientos de miles de estos coches saliendo al mercado cada año”.

Could Electric Cars Threaten the Grid?

Plugging in an electric vehicle is, in some cases, the equivalent of adding three houses to the grid. That has utilities in California—where the largest number of electric vehicles are sold—scrambling to upgrade the grid.

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