dinsdag 24 mei 2011

Electric Vehicle - Purpose design vs. Conversion design

Sometimes you change a plan, other times you start off with a clean slate. In electric vehicle design these two approaches are used as well, you have most of the traditional car makers changing a current model, others are developping a totally new car.


An interesting article from my friends at Green & Energy on the topic is linked below, it is well worth a read on this design issue.


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Purpose design vs. Conversion design
http://www.green-and-energy.com/blog/purpose-design-vs-conversion-design/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GandE+%28The+Green+%26+Energy+Consulting+Group%29

If you regard the Mini E in contrast to the SIM-LEI in terms of energy consumption you have about 18 kWh/100km for the Mini E and ca. 7,4 kWh/100km for the SIM LEI (both figures are rather optimistic). But this already shows what happend in a quite short time and I´m sure that there are still further potentials for reducing energy consumption of EV, which would also improve the economy of such cars.

(via Instapaper)

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