La fábrica de Santana en Linares (Jaén), que cerró sus puertas en febrero de 2011, consigue nuevos inquilinos. La empresa española Velantur Cars, fruto de la joint venture entre las españolas Jofemar y Retrofactory, pondrá en marcha las instalaciones para fabricar el primer vehículo eléctrico de lujo 100% español, que estará en el mercado en el segundo semestre de 2016.
Las compañías ligadas a la automoción interesadas en ella deberán pagar una tasa a la Fundación AutoHarvest.
Ford ha anunciado que cederá las patentes que protegen su tecnología sobre coches eléctricos o electrificados -aquí se incluyen los híbridos y los híbridos enchufables- a cualquiera de sus competidores que la desee.
At last year’s Microsoft ThinkNext event in Tel Aviv, where new technologies by several Israeli start-ups go on display and get their “big break,” Dr. Doron Myersdorf, CEO of Israeli start-up StoreDot, wowed the crowd by promising within a year to develop a technology that could reduce the time needed to recharge cellphones from hours to minutes.
At ThinkNext 2015 Tuesday in Tel Aviv, Myersdorf, fulfilled that promise, displaying before a crowd of some 1,500 a phone as it recharged from zero power to 100% charged in about two minutes.
And while he was doing that, Myersdorf made another promise: “Next year, we will present a technology to recharge an electric car in five minutes.”
Electric cars may seem like a niche product that only wealthy people can afford, but a new analysis suggests that they may be close to competing with or even beating gas cars on cost.
The true cost of lithium-ion batteries in electric cars is a secret closely held by manufacturers. And estimates of the cost vary widely, making it tough to determine just how much lower they must go before electric vehicles with long ranges can be affordable for most buyers. But a peer-reviewed study of more than 80 estimates reported between 2007 and 2014 determined that the costs of battery packs are “much lower” than widely assumed by energy-policy analysts.
Electric cars could cut the UK’s oil imports by 40% and reduce drivers’ fuel bills by £13bn if deployed on a large scale, according to a new study.
An electric vehicle surge would deliver an average £1,000 of fuel savings a year per driver, and spark a 47% drop in carbon emissions by 2030, said the Cambridge Econometrics study.
amsung is making bigger moves into the electric vehicle (EV) realm with news that its “materials and energy” subsidiary Samsung SDI has acquired the battery pack division of Magna International, an automotive supplier based in Ontario, Canada.
The Korean electronics giant is procuring the battery business from Magna Steyr, the Austria-based unit of Magna International, with more than 250 employees, all production sites, and contracts transferring over to Samsung SDI.
A123 Systems, an electric-car battery maker, is suing Apple because it believes the computing giant “poached” A123’s employees to help develop a competing large-scale battery business.
¿De Detroit a San Francisco? La industria del motor de Estados Unidos empezó en la primera de esas ciudades. Pero ahora podría estar mudándose a la segunda.
Primero, Tesla con sus coches eléctricos. Después, Google con su coche que se conduce solo. Y ahora, según 'The Wall Street Journal', Apple.
General Motors ha hecho una apuesta por el liderazgo del mercado de vehículos eléctricos con un concepto de coche que presume de tener una autonomía de batería de 320 kilómetros con un precio de coste de 30.000 dólares.
