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Game changer? JFE Engineering develops 5 minute EV charger

JFE Engineering charger

The biggest challenge auto manufacturers are facing today with electric vehicles is it takes far too long to replenish the batteries giving EVs an unattractive image.

What JFE Engineering has innovated can potentially eliminate that problem completely. The Japanese engineering firm has developed an electric charger that plugs into your EV and provides up to 70% charge in a matter of 5 minutes!

If you’re in a rush to the local supermarket, you can get 50% charge in just 3 minutes. That’s less than what it takes to perform a “splash and dash” fuel stop at the local petrol station.

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We have shortened the charging time to three minutes, the same amount of time for refueling petrol or making a simple purchase.

EV charging infrastructure available today in modern cities take almost overnight to provide full juice to batteries. This is a common reason why people prefer combustion models. But with such drastic improvements made in the electrical industry field, EVs might take over our world very soon!

By the end of March 2011, this JFE hopes to install the charger in petrol stations across Japan for the public to use. There is no word on the cost yet.

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Entry posted on July 7th, 2010 and filed under Electric Vehicles, Technology

Flavio Adriani’s Lamborghini Concept EV

Flavio Adriani Lamborghini Concept EV

Designer Flavio Adriani has created this concept Lamborghini supercar, which has been dubbed the Lamborghini Concept EV. As the name suggests this is an all-electric Lambo. The designer has created this concept as a tribute to Lamborghini’s founder, Ferrucio Lamborghini.

The concept looks to have borrowed a lot of styling lines from Lamborghini’s Gallardo and Diablo supercars and the car looks like an amalgamation of both the cars put together. The car is equipped with four electric motors, one in each wheel and the electric motors are powered by the V-shaped solar panels placed over the engine as an engine cover. The concept has also been equipped with a low frequency radiation protection panel to protect its occupants from the radiations emitted by mobile phones and other wireless devices.

The throwing out of the Internal combustion engine from the car resulted in the greatest challenge for the designer of the car. He had to find a way to bring back the glorious sound a Lamborghini emanates from its rear end. The solution the designer found was to use wind turbines to re-create the glorious Lamborghini exhaust note. Air enters the inlet tubes for the turbines through the front end of the car and passes onto the central turbine, thereby creating the sound of a jet engine.

Though the wind turbines endow the car with the Lamborghini exhaust note, they also create the problem of people looking into the sky to see if its an airplane passing over, when its actually the car that’s emanating the sound. The feeling one would get being within a car with so much of history and passion associated with it and one that also sounds like an airplane would be unparalleled.

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Entry posted on June 30th, 2010 and filed under Design Study, Lamborghini

Squalus – EV powered by renewable energy sources

Squalus Hybrid EV

Mexican designer Arturo Arino has come up with this concept which has been named as the Squalus. The Squalus is an all-electric luxury concept vehicle, designed to provide the maximum possible comfort and smoothness for its passengers, but without any sort of noise or emissions.

The Squalus has four individual electric motors, which reside within the innards of each wheel and provide the necessary power required for motion of the vehicle.

The spinning motion of the vehicle’s wheels is what generates the electic energy required by the electric motors and in case the elctric motors are out of juice, there is a hydrogen engine also present to kick-in and propel the vehicle when the electric motors are down. The Squalus also has a variable darkness windshield, which varies its intensity depending on the sun’s intensity.

The windshield is also equipped with solar cells, to trap the sun’s energy and use it to feed the vehicle’s electrical system.

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Entry posted on June 12th, 2010 and filed under Interesting

Scarab – All-Electric fully automated Police assistant

scarab police vehicle assistant

The Scarab concept designed by Carl Archambeault, is an all-electric, self-driven, robotic chase assistant, which assists the police in high speed pursuits. It is a lightweight, compact and emission free vehicle, and apart from high speed chases, it performs duties such as routine traffic checks to keep police officers and innocent civilians safe.

How does the Scarab work?

A Scarab is always stationed besides a police officer’s patrol car, ready for it to be deployed when a speeding vehicle is detected. When the police officer detects a speeding vehicle, he tags the speeding vehicle with the aid of a radar gun. Once the speeding vehicle has been tagged, the signal is relayed to Scarab, which then initiates pursuit of the speeding offender.

The Scarab pursues the speeding vehicle till the driver decides to stop. The policemen can then arrive at the spot avoiding further road accidents.

The Scarab better have high performance batteries and powerful motors. Chasing speeding supercars can prove cumbersome otherwise.

As of now, the Scarab is not yet outfitted with a weapon of any sort, but down the line, in a few years time, it may be equipped with an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) or a Signal Jammer, which will enable it to bring down speeding vehicles to a complete halt, all on its own.

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Entry posted on June 8th, 2010 and filed under Design Study, Interesting
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