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TECHNO-NEWS * UK - Mechanical bolt-on KERS hybrid for buses offers 30% fuel saving
Lancashire,UK -Torotrak -October 3, 2009: -- There is a surprisingly close match between the energy storage requirements of an urban bus and the current F1 regulations... It seems that the lessons learned in developing a mechanical KERS system for F1 may yet hold the key to a low-cost, high-efficiency hybrid system particularly suited for the stop-start patterns of buses, which are quite similar to the distances between capturing and delivering energy of those of a race car. Torotrak will deliver a paper at the SAE Commercial Vehicle Congress in Illinois next week showing how flywheel KERS for buses can offer more than 30 percent fuel saving over the London bus test cycle, yet package around an existing transmission...* USA - Google investigating smart charging solution for electric vehicles
Mountain View ,CAL,USA -Google's RechargeIT.org -October 5, 2009: -- Google's small fleet of plug-in hybrid cars is now testing software which allows the cars to interface with the power grid... Google engineers have put the cars through numerous tests to both prove and improve electric vehicle technology whilst publishing the results on the Internet. More recently, Google has confirmed that the fleet is currently running smart software to enable communication between the grid and the vehicles... The software is still in its early stages of development, but in the meantime, US drivers can compare the performance of their cars with the Google hybrid fleet by heading to the RechargeIT vehicle calculator... Google has also released a broad-based plan on reducing fossil fuel dependence entitled Clean Energy 2030...* Japan - New high energy, high reliability lithium-ion battery module from Panasonic
Tolyo,Japan -Gizmag, by Darren Quick -October 4, 2009: -- Panasonic says its new lithium-ion battery module offers higher capacity, output, reliability, safety and improved cost performance... The new module has a volume of approximately seven liters, weighs eight kg (8.6 lbs), has a voltage of 25.2 and a capacity of 58 Ah. Multiple units of the module can be connected in series and/or parallel to construct battery packs for a range of applications. The high-energy module is constructed from 140 pieces of 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells - seven serially-connected rows each made of 20 parallel... Panasonic will have a prototype of the new battery module on show at CEATEC JAPAN 2009, which runs October 6-10, and at the New Energy Industry Fair Osaka, which runs from October 7-9...Labels: technonews
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