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Archive : EVs motors & drives
Continental reminds us the electric Renault Zoe has a German motor
The electric Renault Zoe has just been launched in Germany, and that gave Continental, the German giant auto parts supplier, […]
Rimac, supercar manufacturer, now also engineering firm
Rimac, the Croat company which is about to launch the world’s fastest electric car, is taking on a new challenge. […]
AC Propulsion showed once again its talents with the GAC Trumpchi GS5 BEV
American company AC Propulsion was once the world’s leader in electric car technology. Tesla Motors wouldn’t exist if AC Propulsion […]
Toyota’s working on a better electric sports car, with a gearshift
This Toyota 2000GT from the sixties was probably one of the most overlooked cars at the Goodwood’s festival of speed, […]
AC Propulsion unveils a new motor for fast electric cars
AC Propulsion is a small engineering company from California. It’s not very well known outside hardcore EV fans but it’s […]
The Pininfarina Hybus, an incredible hybrid bus with a small Fiat diesel car engine
Now that Pininfarina has ceased all its production work, the Italian company is free to concentrate on its core activities: […]
Getrag aims to supply gearboxes to electric cars makers
The world is still waiting for a regular production electric car with a gearbox, but transmission manufacturers are rushing in […]
Caravan power: producing free electricity while you drive your travel trailer
Most campgrounds offer an electric source to plug into, but how about making your own electricity? There’s a way to […]
The impossible Fisker with Veyron-like performance, even with a gearbox
Henrik Fisker is one of the few people I admire. What he did is really extraordinary: he started a new […]
Antonov’s multi-speed transmission for electric cars won an award in the U.K.
There’s something similar in the first electric cars of the 21st century, with the gasoline cars from the late 19th […]
Where we find out how much Toyota will pay Tesla Motors
A small car manufacturer doing some development work for a bigger one is not unusual. Porsche and Lotus are doing […]