In addition to crystal white bodypanels the electric drive design package comprises white alloy rims, a green tridion cell, green mirror caps and numerous green accents in the interior which form an attractive contrast to the black seats.
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AeroVironment (AV), the official home charging-dock provider for the Nissan LEAF and co-developer of the first modern-day electric vehicle, the GM Impact, will partner with Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to design and build public and semi-private charging stations at convenient locations for electric vehicle owners, including high-rise buildings, resorts and rental car facilities.
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He described the restructuring as "like finding a broken Stradivarius cello and building a new semi-electric instrument without spoiling the design".
Other projects being funded this year include an effort to develop a smaller, less costly and more durable fuel cell power system that will enable commercialization of U.S. fuel cell buses, and an effort to develop and demonstrate a lightweight highly efficient bus that incorporates an improved hybrid-electric drive and enhanced bus design.
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Tesla announced that it will release a new, cheaper electric car in 2016 or 2017, and Renault teamed up with British designer Ross Lovegrove to design the flashy Twin'Z Electric concept car.
Do they believe they can simply mothball the A123 plant while someone else figures out how to design and build an electric car that customers actually want?
When I look back at high school, or even junior high, we had all the things that kids don't have now: woodshop, ceramics, metal class, electric class, graphic arts, graphic design.
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Boeing's design is considered "more-electric, " controlling parts of the aircraft such as the starting of the engines to the anti-ice system.
Massachusetts-based A123 is or was part of President Obama's grand design to build a U.S. electric-car industry more or less from scratch.
English Electric Ltd. is putting into production a computor based on a design of the National Physical Laboratory.
If it proves to be as promising as some people suspect, the new battery design developed by MIT researchers may create compelling synergies between electric vehicles and the electric power grid.
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No surprise, he has already started making a mark at Audi, suspending plans to produce the all-electric R8 supercar (too expensive and impractical) and initiating the design of multiple new models (Audi declined to give further specifics).
Fisker, an electric-car maker, is currently not making any cars due to various design and production problems.
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TEDx, a nonprofit devoted to sparking ideas and the sponsor of this event, shares this mindset and, like chefs who perch elegant electric mixers upon stainless countertops, they believe that folding Technology into Entertainment and Design leads to batter ripe for innovation.
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Another example: A123 Systems, a Massachusetts company that produces lithium-ion batteries, has created a large design and manufacturing center in Michigan to be near their automotive customers for electric and hybrid vehicles.
Markets do not design new systems new patterns of transport and housing, new technologies for electric power, for vehicles, for heating and cooling.
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Given a free hand in the design, his team developed a continuously variable transmission system that allows the petrol engine and electric motor to work separately or in tandem.
Unlike most of the daily driver-aimed electric vehicles we're familiar with that are very locked down, founder Chris Anthony claims its design allows owners to tweak and tune many features.
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