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ELECTRIC VEHICLES * WORLDWIDE
* China - New energy vehicles questioned after deadly accident
Shenzhen,Guangdong,China -Morning Whistle, by Zhang Yan -May 28 2012: -- Questions have been raised about made-in-China new energy vehicles following a fatal car collision over the weekend in China’s southern city of Shenzhen killed three in an electric taxi due to an explosion... Clean energy auto is a key industry for China’s economic upgrading... The central government promised in a 2009 blueprint to make China a global power in electric car manufacturing by investing billions of dollars in research and calling for annual sales of 500,000 cars by 2015... But the goal still seems too ambitious to achieve, chastened by lack of buyer interest due to an underdeveloped charging network and insufficient battery endurance... Lo Kok-keung, an engineer with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said that a fully charged lithium battery could explode in a serious crash...
* USA - Electric motors drive future urban vehicles
(Photo: Peugeot VeLV Concept Electric Urban Car)
Mountain View,CAL,USA -Frost and Sullivan/AutomotiveWorld, by Anjan Hemanth Kumar -June 7, 2012: -- The emphasis on reducing tailpipe emissions and uncertainty in oil supply have forced vehicle manufacturers to look into vehicle electrification technologies such as hybrid and electric vehicles, which reduce or eliminate the use of internal combustion engines in cars. This development helps to increase electric components in the vehicle and is expected to boost the market for traction motors... According to recent Frost and Sullivan research on traction electric motors for hybrid and electric vehicles, the markets for motors in Europe and North America together are expected to scale up to 4.8 million units by 2017. This opens a door for opportunities in the form of design, development and supply of such motors for EV powertrain suppliers... OEMs looking to develop electric motors in-house are likely to hold the design and intelligence to themselves, but outsource modules and components. In many cases, vehicle manufacturers are looking for multiple suppliers for various research and commercial projects, but are likely to choose a single supplier in the long term... As OEMs look at more than one electric motor technology, suppliers are expected to have a wide product portfolio for a successful acquisition of contracts...
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