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Honda Jazz Hybrid
The Honda Jazz also called Fit is Honda new Hybrid model.
The Jazz has the same drivetrain as the Insight. When you do normal accelerations in the city you can really feel the electric motor helping. The petrol motor does not run very fast, it feels like someone is pushing the car. It takes a while to [...]
Honda FCX Clarity test
I have driven the Honda FCX Hydrogen car in Germany for the whole day.
It is an electric vehicle with a 100 Kw motor and has a small Lithium ion battery to give an extra help at fast acceleration and store power from the regenerative braking.
The power comes from a large fuel cell placed in the [...]
Nissan Leaf test drive
”The Stig” drives the Nissan Leaf.
He gives a nice presentation of the car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=da&v=0_4fvEwXros
You can read my test of the car:
http://www.easyecar.com/electric-vehicle-test/nissan-leaf-first-drive/
First impressions of the Honda CR-Z
I have only had the car for one day, but it has already lived up to the expectation of being able to handle two disciplines very well:
Eco mode: If you carefully the car can do more than 20 km/l
Sports mode: The car is very fast responding and handles life a real sports car.
I managed to [...]
Volvo Hybrid Bus 7700
The bus is on trail in Denmark for two weeks:
The diesel motor stops when the bus stops. Then the bus is silence. When accelerating it uses the electric motor up to about 20 km/h and then the diesel motor starts and they run parallel.
The electric motor is quite noisy so you only get lower noise [...]
Better Place battery switch in Tokyo
Sitting in the back seat of a Better Place Taxi in Tokyo when it does a battery switch:
The car drives inside the switch station and gets cleaned underneath with air when it drives in. then it stops and after waiting a while the depleted battery is taken out underneath and then the fully charged battery [...]
What to look forward to test in 2011
This a nice list of cars we can expect to see in 2011:
http://earth2tech.com/2010/04/27/12-plug-in-cars-you-can-drive-by-2011/
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V2G: What is Standing in the Way of the New Networked Car
I recently interviewed Sales Director for Better place in Denmark Torben Andersen. He told me that Better Place will not be ready with the possibility for sending back power from their Vehicles to the Grid (V2G) when they start operating next year.
I was surprised to hear this because I thought that this is an important [...]
Overdrawing batteries without damanging them
Range anxiety is the biggest drawback to electric cars. When the battery is dead, so are you, perhaps miles from the nearest charger.
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