Electric Cars for Sale

<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <p>Electric Cars for Sale.<br /> Title: who killed the electric car, how about actual situation?<br /> <br /> Author: Paulaner77<br /> <br /> Article:<br /> Might the most fuel-efficient vehicles in mass<br /> production--powerful hybrids, such as Toyota's Prius, that can<br /> run on either gasoline or electricity--already be destined for<br /> the science museum? <br /> <br /> That's the argument that French carmaker Renault is making at<br /> the Mondial de l'Automobile, the giant auto show running.Renault<br /> says that it is engineering a pair of battery-powered electric<br /> vehicles (EVs), to be produced starting in 2011, that it claims<br /> will be cheaper to build, cost markedly less to power, and<br /> produce far less carbon dioxide. Renault's vision for electric<br /> cars is small vehicles principally designed for commuting. At<br /> the Paris show, Renault unveiled a concept car showing the<br /> design of a compact EV commuter car: an EV version of its Kangoo<br /> utility van, with startling acid-green windows to minimize air<br /> conditioning and a lithium-ion battery that carries the van 160<br /> to 200 kilometers on an average charge. That range "really<br /> covers the usage by our customers, who are using their cars only<br /> for commuting and maybe short trips during the weekend," says<br /> Renault EV project director Serge Yoccoz. As a result, he<br /> predicts that such EVs could capture from 10 to 15 percent of<br /> the European car market as early as 2015. (Hybrids currently<br /> command just 2 percent of auto sales worldwide.) Renault won't<br /> be the first to test the commuter market with battery EVs.<br /> Mitsubishi Motors announced in Paris last week that it will<br /> begin testing its i-MiEV minicar in Europe next month with a<br /> view to commercial sales by 2010. <br /> <br /> Daimler, meanwhile, said that a battery version of its popular<br /> Smart Fortwo, in testing in London since last year, will be sold<br /> starting at the end of 2009.Renault says that EVs are a<br /> necessity because hybrids cannot deliver the level of gasoline<br /> use and emissions reductions that governments and customers are<br /> demanding of automakers. The EV is the breakthrough required<br /> because, according to Renault, driving the EV Kangoo displayed<br /> in Paris generates zero carbon dioxide when charged with<br /> renewable energy, and no more than 60 grams per kilometer when<br /> charged on today's coal-heavy power grids; when charging in<br /> France, carbon-dioxide emissions would be somewhere in between<br /> because nuclear power provides 80 percent of France's<br /> electricity. <br /> <br /> On this spot there's a new scenario about electric transaxles<br /> for electric vehicles, with the new website<br /> www.ac-transaxles.com. Any of those scenarios compares well with<br /> the more than 130 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer coming<br /> out the tailpipe of Renault's diesel-fueled Kangoos, which are<br /> relatively efficient vehicles for their class.Lithium batteries<br /> for Renault's first round of products, at least, will come from<br /> a joint venture of Japan's Nissan, with which Renault is<br /> partnering on EV technology development, and NEC. <br /> <br /> Newer lithium technologies have eclipsed the performance of the<br /> joint venture's manganese-based lithium-ion chemistry, but<br /> Yoccoz says that the Nissan-NEC process is one of the cheapest.<br /> With the new transaxles the vehicles efficiency will grow, and<br /> will permit longer drive with a load of battery. <br /> <br /> For more info please visit www.ac-transaxles.com, where you can<br /> find information about high ratios transaxles for electric<br /> vehicles.<br /> <br /> Since 90 years our company was looking for a new compact<br /> solution for move battery operated vehicles. The main problem,<br /> was not to manufactures the mechanical transmissions, but was to<br /> create something new that can increase the capacity of existent<br /> battery operated vehicles, in speed, performance and autonomy.<br /> <br /> As each man knows, one of the biggest problem of battery<br /> operated vehicles, was the battery capacities. In fact to obtain<br /> really good performance, a vehicle need to assembly really big<br /> (and weight) battery packs, and this cannot be accepted in 2007<br /> year!<br /> <br /> This is a problem for the vehciles, in fact this is a problem of<br /> costs, weight, manutention, chassis construction and so on.<br /> <br /> So, Benevell Srl company will project in 90 years a new<br /> transaxle that had finally solved all these problems. In fact<br /> with the series named TX1 (http://www.benevelli.biz), Benevelli<br /> Srl company gives to the electric vehicles constructors the<br /> possibilities to have normal battery pack and really good<br /> performances, in speed and autonomy.<br /> <br /> The high grade of tecnology of these series (TX1, more info here<br /> http://www.benevelli.biz/AreaProdotti/tabid/56/Default.aspx) had<br /> give to all constructor of electric vehicles the possibilities<br /> to grow his business, and maybe give the possiblities to this<br /> world to cut a little bit of pollution, because electric<br /> vehciles are the future, and we believe in that.<br /> <br /> Wewant a world full of car and vehicles that run, but run with<br /> electrical powered transaxles, and doesn't create any pollution,<br /> to give to our sons a really better world.</p> </body>