Frost & Sullivan: Electric Vehicles Fuelling Demand for Battery Technology and Supply
The batteries used to propel electric vehicles can be derived from one of several chemistries, including lead acid, nickel metal hydride and lithium-ion . Â The rapidly developing and evolving market for EVs is boosting demand for new battery technologies and greater supply.

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Electric vehicles (EVs) are those vehicles which are different from fossil fuel-powered vehicles as they can receive their power from a wide range of sources, including nuclear power, and renewable energies such as tidal power, solar power, and wind power. Battery electric vehicles, or BEVs, are a type of electric vehicles (EVs) that use the chemical energy amassed in rechargeable battery packs. Good batteries are those which can balance between work and power. Batteries with enough energy power vehicles to move for miles and miles. Energy means the amount of work that the battery can store. And power means how fast the battery can deliver the energy. Several manufacturers of Battery electric vehicles purchase batteries with enough energy to move a vehicle many miles; the energy is delivered so slowly that acceleration can be painful.

Like any other electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles use electric motors instead of internal combustion engines (ICEs) for driving force. Batteries are usually the most expensive component of Battery electric vehicles. The cost of battery manufacturing is huge. Since late 1990s, advances in battery technologies have been driven by demand for laptops and mobile phones, by demand for more features, brighter displays, and longer battery time during research and development in the field. The BEVs marketplace has harvested the benefits of these advances.

There are many advantages of using battery electric vehicles but the main advantages of these vehicles are, firstly they emit no pollutants which resulting in reducing urban pollution. And secondly the electrical energy stored within the battery can be generated by any source, including renewable, nuclear, natural gas, coal and petroleum. Battery Electric vehicles differ from starting, lighting, and ignition (SLI) batteries because they are designed to give power over wide periods of time. Among various Battery electric vehicles, electric vehicles truck is largely used.

Electric vehicles truck are usually created from those with manual transmissions, but once converted they almost feel like automatics. Electric vehicles truck runs on a manual transmission, but because the truck can reach a high speed in first gear, it runs similar to an automatic. Most people who drive an electric vehicle keep it in second gear most of the time. Delivery trucks require many batteries, to get sufficient range, because they do not deliver lightning fast starts. Since the truck only runs off batteries, it is fully electric, not requiring a bit of gasoline and quickly gliding down the streets.

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Recent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its attendant environmental costs and geopolitical implications. Few people realize that the electric car—neither a recent invention nor a historical curiosity—has a story as old as that of the gasoline-powered automobile, and that at one time many in the nascent automobile industry believed… More >>

The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age

The Future of Electric Vehicles: Technology, infrastructure developments and the future outlook

Interest in electric vehicles is on the rise. For a variety of reasons this interest is unlikely to dissipate in the foreseeable future. These reasons range from climate change and environmental pollution, to the gradual depletion of fossil fuels worldwide, and to the nationalistic desire to reduce dependence on imported oil. Each country faces its own unique set of challenges but environmental pressures and the looming background threat of global warming are common to all. In the US, it has been estimated by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that if 73% of the country’s cars and light vehicles turned electric, it could cut oil demand by an estimated 6.2 million barrels per day, approximately half of the country’s current imports. For this reason alone, interest in cleaner vehicles as alternatives to traditional gasoline powered cars will grow. Electric vehicles stand poised to fulfil a need at this important time, providing this cleaner mode of transport, to aid the effort to curb harmful emissions from liquid fuels. Technology, economic context, environmental issues are all aligning to create a more commercial backdrop for electric vehicles.

Key Chapters :

Executive summary 8
Brief history of electric vehicles and market drivers 8
Leading electric vehicle manufacturers & outlook 9
Infrastructure for electric vehicles 10
Smart grids & smart charging 10
Electric vehicles and distributed storage 11
Future outlook 12
Chapter 1 Brief history of electric vehicles
and market drivers 16
Summary 16
Brief history of electric vehicles 17
Brief history of electric vehicles 17
Drivers of renewed interest 19
Increased range of electric vehicles 22
Falling oil production/peak oil 24
Gasoline and fuel prices 27
Legislation 30
Reducing emissions 31
Size of the market 32
Chapter 2 Leading electric vehicles
manufacturers & outlook 36
Summary 36
Main vehicle technologies 37
Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) 39
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) 43
Battery-powered Electric Vehicles (BEV) 47
The first mass market BEVs 48
Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV) 52
The role of utilities in EV evolution 54
Chapter 3 Infrastructure for electric vehicles 58
Summary 58
Charging infrastructure 59
Charging stations 61
Charging times 67
Increased power generation requirements 70
Increasing role of utilities 74
Vehicle and battery leasing 76
Chapter 4 Smart grids & smart charging 80
Summary 80
Smart grids & smart charging 81
Smart charging 83
Car manufacturers taking the lead 85
Smart charging standards 86
Who controls charging? 86
The role of utilities 89
Infrastructure investment 92
Public investment in the smart grid 93
Bi-directional power flows 94
Chapter 5 Electric vehicles and distributed
storage 96
Summary 96
Electric vehicles and distributed storage 97
Battery capacity and storage opportunities 98
Vehicle-to-grid 100
Benefits of V2G 102
Integrating V2G into the grid 103
Electric vehicles and renewable generation 104
Energy harvesting 106
Chapter 6 Future outlook 110
Summary 110
Future outlook 111
Market outlook 112
United States 113
Europe 115
Japan 116
China 117
India 118
Infrastructure requirements in the next decade 119
Potential investment needed 120
Glossary 122
Index 125

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Electric Vehicle Technology Explained

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While the classic battery electric car continues to make only a small impact on the automobile market, other types of electric vehicle, especially hybrids, have made significant and promising improvements. Moreover, small battery electric vehicles such as bicycles and mobility aids are also developing well. Presenting more than 160 diagrams and pictures, this book explains the science and technology behind these important developments, and also introduces the issues… More >>

Electric Vehicle Technology Explained

Futuristic Electric Car

It’s the Aptera 2e – a futuristic-looking electric car set for a US launch later this year.

With fuel prices still high, the electric car is becoming a more attractive form of transportation. Electric cars were first introduced in the 1970s, but the technology has dramatically improved in the last ten years. By 2010 automakers like Mercedes and General Motors plan to bring their models to showrooms. Jeff Swicord introduces us to one man who uses electric cars built several years ago as his primary mode of transportation.

Tech ed teacher Ron Grosinger and a group of students at Memorial High School in West New York are almost finished with a project that cost about 000 and involved hundreds of hours of work: Converting a used car into an electric car. They plan to present the car Friday at the New Jersey Technology Education Association conference in Hasbrouck Heights. (Video by Jennifer Weiss/The Star-Ledger)

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