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The Morning Briefing: Electric vehicles, batteries

By | January 25, 2013, 12:16 AM PST

“The Morning Briefing” is SmartPlanet’s daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we’re reading about electric vehicles and battery development.

1.) E.U. law to create market for electric cars. Cars using alternative sources of clean energy are not finding a market due to a lack of fuelling stations and high price tags. E.U. transport commissioner Siim Kallas told reporters in Brussels that member states must take the initiative to build the stations to help open the market, cut CO2 emissions and reduce dependency on oil.

2.) Electric vehicle battery market to reach $22bn by 2020. The market for lithium ion batteries used in electric cars is set to expand to almost $22bn by the end of the decade, according to new analysis by Pike Research.

3.) Electric vehicles may be the green car of the future, but hybrids are the green car of the present. Professor Jeremy Michalek talks carbon pricing, batteries, and why we shouldn’t be subsidizing your Tesla Roadster.

4.) Toyota, BMW to research lithium-air car battery. Toyota Motor Corp and BMW AG will jointly research a lithium-air battery expected to be more powerful than the lithium-ion batteries used in many hybrid and electric vehicles, the two firms said.

5.) Peugeot, Volkswagen unveil battery-free hybrid vehicles. Peugeot Citroen said it has unveiled a pioneering hybrid vehicle concept combining a conventional engine with compressed nitrogen propulsion, which it said, would halve the cost of reducing emissions compared with current gasoline-electric hybrids.

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He is looking at the problem wrong. The trade deficit is a major problem to our economy. Anything we do to save gas ( crud oil ) will improve our economy. Need a car for a trip, rent one. Need a truck occasionally, rent one. Maybe the car dealerships could also rent cars.
Posted by Thomas Patterson
25th Jan
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I am from the UK. Charging points here are like ' hunt the easter bunny ! '. Only short trips are possible. There is a lot needs to be done if the EV is to become popular. I read yesterday that Continental AG have now bought 40% of SK Innovation to become SK Continental E-motion and they are looking to produce and distribute lithium-ion battery systems. We need to see a battery which will travel considerably further when fully charged than at present and charging points at every garage. However one bit of interesting innovation is the Schaeffler Hybrid, based on an Opel Corsa, which is part of a project that allows a comparison between the multiple new energy mobility options and demonstrates various vehicle configurations and driving conditions. In addition to the Corsa's internal combustion engine it uses a central electric motor and two wheel hub motors. But most interesting, it features a 16 kWh lithium-ion battery (400V, 400 A), which can be charged using the vehicle's own kinetic energy recovery system, Sadly people will not start renting instead of owning unless they only use a vehicle once in a blue moon, so either EV's or hybrids have to be the way to go.
Posted by BigAlCl
26th Jan
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THE WORLD GOING TO SOLAR ENERGY
The Solar Industry to Skyrocket with the help of Solar Shingles.

SOLAR ENERGY SOON WILL POWER ALL OF THE EARTH

ELECTRIC HYBRID VEHICLES & ELECTRIC VEHICLES SOON TO OUT SELL ALL OTHERS



Energy has driven the world for over a thousand years Wind, Hydro and Solar are the oldest forms of energy giving power to all smart enough to use it.

In the last 200 years Coal, Oil and Nuclear has given energy to many worldwide and great power and wealth to only a few. At the cost of many lives in coal Mines, Oil Spills, Radiation, Cancer and Polluting the Air and Water on all of the Earth.

Unfortunately for the wicked there is not an unlimited amount of oil on earth. Just the same as the Forest Trees that clean the air and make Oxygen we breath and all living on earth need to Live. As some in denial are not able to recognize or ever see or live with blinders on.

Doctors and Drug ceo's have been making millions prescribing drugs to many that live near or by High polluted areas. From dirty energy that hurt breathing our lungs, water we drink and harm our children and all. That we all pay for. When all on earth need is Clean Air and Water, and Clean Cities.

Now common sense would be for all to look for a Clean Fuel Source like Wind, Hydro, Geothermal and Solar. Renewable Energy is eliminating the need for Dirty Energy Worldwide at a record pace. With SOLAR ENERGY Clearly the front runner.

To the fear of some of the richest people on Earth. They to surprisingly are doing
something extraordinary investing in Solar Energy. After years of many of them trying to under mine it.

Fuel that makes energy to ship goods, or make electric for homes and manufacturing. Can transform whole nations into prosperity and wealth or poverty and economic hardships for most all. Just as taxes on taxpayers has done. For over two thousand years. Making slaves of many to the wicked and unjust few. History Lesson Roman Empire, Persian Empire now OIL Empire oh sorry OPEC.

The Freedom to get your own Power from the Wind and Sun, Solar Energy has been there for years. Are Libraries and Schools should have been the first to have gone Solar and Renewable Energy. And why are they not? Churches are all over the Planet. They are going to Solar Energy.

Thank GOD for the Pioneers like John Schaeffer that Started Real Goods The first and Best catalog for Renewable Energy and Dr. Addison Bain one of NASA top Scientist and Scientist Bill Young at the FSEC Florida Solar Energy Center and Monica D. Key Lindbergh for many years wrote to legislators promoting Solar and Renewable Energy and many others.

These Pioneers helped put Wind, Solar And Renewable Energy in the Spotlight for all the World to see. One of The Greatest Scientists ever Albert Einstein Stared it with a Dream that the day would come that all the World would use Solar Energy. His many years of work with the law of the "Photoelectric Effect", and showing this to the World won him the Nobel Prize in Physics. For the "Photoelectric Effect"
Free Energy From the SUN in the heavens above.
We still do not teach this to our young.

Very soon Hybrid Vehicles and (EV's) Electric Vehicles will out number the ones that need oil and gas to go. With the ability to recharge them at home and work from the sun.

Tesla Motors with its new Model S electric sedan, will be one of many the World will see soon. Honda, Nissan, Audi,VW, BMW and Volvo are just some of the Car Companies putting into production Electric Vehicles a EV, and many more are and many are building Electric / Hybrid Vehicles. The DeLorean Motor Company will be putting into production by 2013 a DMC-EV Electric DeLorean, that will have a body and power plant that will last you a life time. Just think you can recharge them at home and work free from the sun Solar Energy.

The Lord's Little Helper
Paul Felix Schott

Now to own a car that will never rust way and runs on the power from the sun that's the one for me. Very soon most all on earth will be able to get energy by recharging from the sun and wind.

Cities that want to be Clean clean-cities.org many of them are putting in recharging stations in their heart of their downtown of their city all over the Planet Earth. Many Thanks mostly to Scientist Bill Young and his team at FSEC for their many years of work at this..

GOD Bless You Professor Takashi Ohira and your team for the good work they are doing. To promote Clean Cities with Clean Transportation that will let some drive all day without having to stop to recharge. As Neil Armstrong would say one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Just one step closer to the World being powered be the Sun Solar Energy.



Going Solar

Germany, Denmark, Australia, Sweden, Norway, India, Nepal, Ttbet and Israeli clearly a leader in Solar companies and Renewable Energy is helping many World Wide and a long list of Nations Going Solar even Iran with its Archimedes Tower. At its Shiraz Solar Power Plant Iran and all the Oil Nations on Earth know the World is going to SOLAR Energy.


Going Geothermal


Iceland, Philippines, Kenya.....and more then 50 other Countries.


Wind Energy in use


More then 75 Countries


Albert Einstein's Dream coming true

The Earth Powered By SOLAR ENERGY.


GOD Bless

all that Spot Light and use Solar Energy
Posted by Paul Felix Schott
26th Jan
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my solar contribution
Efficiency and solar energy can do more to releive us of our oil dependency than most see as being possible.
My contribution to the solution can be sen on our website www.orionsolartech.com
A PV thermal solar panel that provides a structural element and makes the roof all in one.
Cover the whole roof or a small part of it. Design a system for the desired outcome and needs in consideration with the local climate.
Posted by Gary McCallum
31st Jan
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