Ford will build a new facility in Dearborn, Michigan, adjacent to its existing vehicle factory to produce the long-awaited future electric version of the iconic pick-up there . How could it be otherwise, the oval firm has opted to build its new assembly lines in the city that houses its headquarters. The F-150 is an icon of the automotive industry…
The socialization of plug-in electric and hybrid cars is slowly catching on. Increasingly, zero-emission vehicles are spreading with greater acceptance among drivers, arouse more interest and have a greater infrastructure, although in this regard there is still a long way to go. If you are one of those drivers who are considering buying an electric car there will be an…
Generation 4 of the bestseller is now available from dealers: as a notchback sedan with a large flap and as a station wagon, optionally in both body versions as a plug-in hybrid. Now there are prices. Since its market launch in 1996, the Skoda Octavia has been selling almost by itself. The fourth generation is taking a big step both…
The boom in electric mobility is recent. Years have passed since the manufacturers showed us their first prototypes to finally commercialize the electric cars massively that lay the foundations of what the mobility of the future will be like, but all of them (or almost all) have flirted with alternative mobility during the last decades. The Mercedes-Benz 190 E Elektro…
EP Tender is a French start-up that was unveiled seven years ago with a curious invention: a two-wheeled trailer that hid a gasoline engine, with its corresponding tank, and an electric generator, to be used as a complement for electric cars and provide the vehicle with 500 km of autonomy with each load. In full swing of the electromobility and…
It seems clear that all manufacturers are already committed to an electrified future, in the sense of a battery- powered electric car. Some have started soon and others join the party somewhat later. At the same time, interest in hydrogen seems to have disappeared. Volkswagen, for example, which neglects hydrogen for fear of being the new Nokia. However, some manufacturers…
In the universe of alternative cars we find several options and one of them are the electric ones with extended autonomy , whose electric motor receives energy from both a battery and a combustion propeller that acts as a generator. This is the case of this Tesla Model 3 with last name HyperHybrid developed by the Austrian engineering company Obrist…
Using externally excited synchronous motors in electric cars, such as ZF had already presented in a prototype in 2012, could play a certain role in the future, especially by renouncing the controversial rare earths. In the case of permanent-excited electro-motors, this is achieved by means of strong magnets, for which the neodymium, which belongs to the rare earths, is required. Since…
History of the electric car The electric car is older than the internal combustion engine. Long before Carl Friedrich Benz sent his motor car number 1 to test drive, battery driven electric vehicles were already rolling across the streets of Europe and especially the USA. For many years, the technology of the two drive types developed peacefully next to each…
It is not easy to derive the actual consumption and range of electric cars from the technical data for the traction batteries and the drive alone. As a traction battery, the battery is designated for driving an electric or electric hybrid vehicle, since at the same time there is also a commercially available on-board power supply battery, which is known from…