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The Hold feature as found also on European Volts and near twins Opel / Vauxhall Amperas, essentially «holds» the battery state - of - charge level allowing for pure electric driving at a later time in the journey.

The B - Class Electric Drive combines dynamic and driving pleasure with zero local emissions — in short: it delivers electric driving at premium level.

Electric driving fun to the max: In the MAX eDRIVE mode, you can enjoy purely electric driving at speeds of up to 120 km / h.

In Pebble Beach, Calif., Cadillac unveiled the Ciel concept, a four - seat open - air grand tourer powered by a twin - turbocharged version of the 3.6 - liter direct injection V - 6 engine, paired with a hybrid system using lithium - ion battery technology and offering all - electric drive at low speeds.

If the driver's foot leaves the accelerator again to let the car coast, the system switches to electric drive at the front axle; braking under normal driving conditions recuperates up to 80 % of the energy, which is fed into the battery.

Hybrids typically fare better in the EPA's city cycle fuel economy ratings than in the highway test due to hybrids» ability to run solely on electric drive at times.

Smart, in collaboration with fashion designer Jeremy Scott, have unveiled a very strange - looking smart fortwo electric drive at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show.

This also extended to the integration of GKN's hardware and software with the standard car's systems, to ensure that the electric drive at the rear runs in harmony with the gasoline powertrain at the front.

Not exact matches

As electric vehicles gain popularity, such technology could become as ubiquitous as stoplights, with chargers embedded at bus stops and in stop signs or even in roads themselves (the U.K. government is testing charging lanes on highways that would offer electric cars virtually unlimited driving range).

Musk last year hired chip design legend Jim Keller, who had been at AMD (amd) for years, sparking speculation that the electric carmaker would go that route to enhance the self - driving capability of future vehicles.

Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk unveils the dual engine chassis of the new Tesla «D' model which is a faster and all - wheel - drive version of the Model S electric sedan at the Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles on October 9, 2014.

Technology giant Apple is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

FRANKFURT / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is looking beyond mobile devices to learn how to make a self - driving electric car, and is talking to experts at carmakers and automotive suppliers, a senior auto industry source familiar with the discussions said on Saturday.

Powered by three electric motors — one in front and two at the rear — FF 91's all wheel drive system will be capable of blasting off a 0 - 60 mph time of 2.39 seconds, making it the world's quickest electric vehicle.

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In the video, the team at Faraday Future can be seen providing Dahm with tidbits about the projects taking place behind the scenes, and later an extended test drive of the 1,000 horsepower, dual - motor electric car.

The Austrian has five goals to his name due to his electric pace and ability to cut in from the wings to drive at the opposition defence.

A typically developing child is getting better and better at using different things, like throwing balls, playing cards or driving electric cars.

That was on display several driving hours to the south, at General Electric in Niskayuna on Tuesday, when Cuomo announced a $ 153 million state investment in the high - tech sector.

The electric hybrid eVaro, developed in Canada by Future Vehicle Technologies of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in around 5 seconds, and drives at least 165 miles on the equivalent of a US gallon of fuel.

And whereas many traditional motorcycles can achieve a respectable 50 miles per gallon at a driving cost of about seven cents per mile, an electric bike uses the energy equivalent of about 420 mpg at an operating cost of two to three cents per mile.

Anticipating the next step, researchers at MIT have proposed a scheme called CityCar in which compact electric vehicles would be scattered in parking stations all around cities, enabling riders to jump into one and drive it to the station nearest their destination, then leave it for the next rider, much like the shared - bicycle systems that have sprung up in cities around the world.

«Eighty percent of charging is expected to take place at home or the workplace,» says Genevieve Cullen, vice president of the Electric Drive Transportation Association.

This report was authored by Genevieve Cullen, vice president, Electric Drive Transportation Association; Alan Epstein, vice president, technology and environment, Pratt & Whitney; paul Genoa, director, policy development, Nuclear Energy Institute; Daniel Ingersoll, program manager, nuclear technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Connie L. Lausten, principal, cLausten LLC; Jeffrey Stein, mechanical engineer, University of Michigan; Amadeu K. Sum, chemical engineer, Colorado School of Mines; Donald Weeks, biochemist, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station.

Physicist Stuart Parkin and his colleagues at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., set out to determine just how magnetized regions move along nanowires when driven by electric current.

In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States» dependence on China for materials that are vital to the production of electronics, wind turbines, and many other technologies, two researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a method of extracting rare earths from the drive units and motors of discarded electric and hybrid cars.

Some previous studies had found that the distance covered by a domain wall was directly proportional to the length of the electric pulse used to drive it, hinting that perhaps domain walls move without inertia — that is, they move at top speed or not at all.

«Whether it's an advanced drive vehicle of any sort — a hybrid, a plug - in hybrid or an electric vehicle (EV)-- the manufacturers are taking it seriously, and they understand it as a growing market,» said Jeremy Acevedo, analyst at the automotive research website Edmunds.com.

Via Motors, a company backed by former General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, unveiled four extended - range electric work vehicles at NAIAS that it says can get more than 100 mpg in regular driving conditions.

Drive power for the Volt will come from a 136 - kilowatt -(or 160 - horsepower --RRB- at - peak permanent - magnet electric motor that produces 320 newton - meters of torque, Zielinsky explains.

The electrons at the center of the spirals are driven pretty vigorously by the laser's electric field.

As T'Challa ditches his exquisitely tailored jacket for his Black Panther suit and starts climbing neon - coated buildings with feline ease, the women, clad in fancy gowns and barefoot - driving at electric speed, step up to the spotlight.

As you can see from the previous post, Kris is every bit as punch - drunk on Nicolas Winding Refn's electric throwback thriller «Drive» as I was at Cannes — read my review here — where it deservedly won the Best Director prize.

When electricity was used at all, it was to either illuminate projection through arc or incandescent lighting or to drive the mechanism using electric motors.

Like any full hybrid, the 300h can run on electric power at low speeds for short distances; an EV mode, activated via Drive Mode Select, raises the threshold where the car transitions to engine power.

It uses three electric motors, with one at the front axle and two at the rear, for a kind of electro - Quattro all - wheel drive.

Volvo's spin - off electric performance hybrid survived its first winter test drive in Northern Sweden and will make an upcoming appearance at Auto China 2018 next week.

We'll have to wait until we get to have a go to see if these upgrades make the i3s any more fun to drive than the standard i3, but with the increased popularity of electric cars and the advancement in battery technology, this might be the first look at what we can expect from a hot hatch of the future.

Owners will plug in at night, heat or cool their cabin before they leave the garage, and adopt new driving styles to maximize their electric range.

And during the past three years, that idea — blend the environmental benefits of electric driving with the convenience of gasoline — didn't change at all.

Equipped with two electric motors, one at the front wheels and one driving the rear, the vehicle should deliver around 400 hp and 516 lb - ft of torque like the concept.

Audi's new all - electric SUV concept has arrived at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show, and boasts an impressive 310 miles of driving range.

At a conference in Texas, General Motors CEO Dan Akerson said his company would build lighter cars and would develop an electric car that can drive 200 miles per charge.

Set to debut at next week's 2016 Paris Motor Show is the 2017 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive, which is expected to return more range than the current model.

Personnel who already are good at selling electric vehicles, according to the U-C Davis study, are those who drive electric vehicles and have immersed themselves in the technology and overall market.

Engine - driven fans can become unreliable at constant high engine speeds, so they can be removed and a good quality electric fan used instead.

Mercedes - Benz has announced that it's planning to launch the SLS AMG Electric Drive next year, after the car's show debut at the Paris motor show.

The gas engine drives the front wheels through an eight - speed automatic transmission, and all - electric range tops out at 25 miles.

This is supplemented by an electric motor that drives directly through the differential (not the gearbox, as in the P1), spins at 16,500 rpm and contributes a further 161bhp and 199 lb ft. Together with the batteries, the combined weight of the hybrid system is 146 kg - roughly half that of the admittedly beefier 918 Spyder's hybrid system.