Introduction to electric drive technology
What is ‘electric drive’? We are using the umbrella term to embrace hybrids (mild and full), plug-in hybrids, extended-range electric vehicles (E-REVs) and pure battery electric vehicles (or BEVs). These categories of vehicle have in common the exploitation of electrical energy to drive vehicle wheels for propulsion, though hybrids (and E-REVs if the gasoline engine kicks in on a long journey) achieve that in collaboration with the burning of fossil-fuels.
Electric drive technology news & announcements
JAPAN: Honda to begin Fit Hybrid production in Thailand
Honda is to start hybrid vehicle production in Thailand, following a similar move in the US in April.
USA: Lexus HS 250h hybrid axed due to poor sales
Toyota has axed the slow-selling Lexus HS 250h after fewer than three years on the market. The car was sold mostly in Japan, the US and Canada.
- UK: Hertz signs MoU to operate EV car sharing club
- US: Prius demand passes 2012 target of 220,000
- US: Honda wins hybrid fuel economy lawsuit appeal
- just-auto's research round-up
- US: Toyota launches RAV4 EV ahead of late summer sale start
- just-auto's research round-up
- US/CHINA: Coda and Great Wall agree EV project
- just-auto's research round-up
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Hybrid Electric Vehicles
A hybrid electrical vehicle (HEV) is a vehicle equipped with either an internal combustion engine (ICE) and an electrical motor powered by electrical batteries. In 1997, Toyota sold in Japan the first modern hybrid electric car, the Toyota Prius.
Gate Drive Optocouplers for HEV Electric Motor Inverters
Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) save fuel because of their electric motor drive. In an HEV, the propulsion system can be configured several ways, for example in the electric motor assisted mode or in the fully electric motor drive mode.
EV Battery Pack Testing in a Manufacturing Environment
Electric vehicles are clearly becoming a growing part of the automotive scene. They promise low or no emissions, conceivably low cost of fuel from the power grid, yet they will continue to deliver us safely from here to there. However, electric vehicle design and manufacturing is a clearly a paradigm shift for the Auto Industry – new drive systems, technologies… and test plans.
Introducing a new research report - Automotive technologies: The UK’s current capability
The research report, Automotive technologies: The UK’s current R&D capability, forms part of a three-phase plan to produce an automotive technology strategy for the UK.
Automotive technologies: the UK’s current capability
In May 2009 the New Automotive Innovation and Growth Team (NAIGT) produced its final report, which included an industry consensus high level Technology Roadmap for meeting the ambitious carbon reduction targets in road transport. This comprised a Common Product Roadmap, and a Common Research Agenda which presented future technologies needed to deliver the Roadmap to the envisaged timescales.
