Who says electric cars are not fast?

1st October 20154th August 2015 by Chris

An electric car, powered by four motors and a 6.62kWh battery, has become the world’s fastest accelerating vehicle – faster than a Formula One race car.

Developed by students at Germany’s University of Stuttgart, the GreenTeam E0711-5 electric car beat the previous record by 0.006 seconds. After several attempts, driver Priska Schmid, a student at the university, set the record time during tests at the Jade Weser Airport in north west Germany.

The vehicle, which weighed just 168kg, managed to hit 100km/h (62mph) within 30 metres. Their vehicle produces a power to weight ratio of 1.6kg/kW. By comparison Formula 1 racing cars produce 1kg/kW and the Bugatti Veyron produces 2.08kg/kW.

The car has been developed by 40 students to help them compete at the Formula Student Electric competition which challenges students to build a single seat race car to compete against teams from around the world.

The competition is due to be held in Hockenheim in Germany later this summer.

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Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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