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Why would a train need batteries when there's wires above to get power from? The answer is – so we stop using diesel trains and be able to travel to distant areas without electrical infrastructure for the trains. There's a lot of such places so a new "autonomous" battery train concept from UK could change a lot of people's lives...
The biggest consumer informationan organization in Norway, Dinside, announced the Korean electric vehicle as the best car of 2015 for its price, roominess, handling, and ecofriendly tech...
These are both so "open" – BMW i3 with all this roominess at the front seats and the brave move by BMW, and Tesla Model S being created by a group of such open minded people, dared to put 17" screen inside to replace the boring center console buttons, and more. Why we decided to compare these EVs? It was an Youtube video actually that catched our eye right because someone put them both together on a track...
There's something new, however, that we want to share. Thanks to one of our readers and a forum regular, we've got some news – EV noise indeed is getting mandatory, but we'll be able to switch it off...
Listening to how people talk about the new electric bus, I quickly realized there's something wrong associated with media titles like "For the first time in Europe an electric bus is operating in Sofia". We know media... but electric buses are hardly new, and what sets the one in Sofia apart is that it does not have a battery, but an ultracapacitor module...
It's now official – EPA rated the electric BMW i3 at 81 miles of range in the USA. Also there the New Jersey restaurant owner Tom Moloughney is about to get his BMW i3 REx soon after years of participating in the MINI E and BMW ActiveE test programs. Looking forward, Tom says BMW will take into account i3 BEV vs i3 REx sales when deciding on the next generation of battery capacities...
The German-Chinese joint-venture BYD Daimler New Technology Co., Ltd. (BDNT) unvieled its new electric creature under the DENZA brand at Auto China 2014. The "advertized" range of 300 km though sounds a bit too much, as the calculations clearly shows...
