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Lithium-ion battery – in the new E-Vito
A closer look at the energy storage of the future shown in an S 400 Hybrid
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Technology / Going green
Supercharging: changing the rules
There was a time when everything was easier. Big engines were
powerful and small engines were less powerful. Displacement
was the key, as petrol-engined cars usually needed big
normally aspirated engines for effortless performance with
high torque and brisk acceleration through the gears.
“Nothing beats cubic capacity – except more cubic capacity”
was an unwritten law of technology for many years, at least
where production models were concerned. If you wanted
more performance, you had to buy a model with more power
or better still a bigger car. But greater size and performance
almost invariably meant higher fuel consumption.
Until a few years ago, car-buyers faced a fundamental choice:
they were forced to opt for good performance or reasonable
fuel economy. Today, you can have both. All it takes is the
right technology under the bonnet. Then you get higher performance
and lower consumption.
People still like to talk about engine displacement, although
as a metric it is really a thing of the past. What counts today
is pressure – boost pressure to be more precise. Boost pressure
is the factor that extracts high power and high torque
from small engines, while at the same time making for low
fuel consumption.
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We need to change from petrol to electric vehicles
A video promoting the many benefits of Plugin Hybrids Electric Vehicles. About the total cost of ownership and how we can drop emissions by more than half. Listen and learn more about this, because it is time for change now!
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Battery-electric drive Vito in Lapland
Brrr, it’s chilly out there! With temperatures of up to minus 30 degrees, handling tests on sheet ice, compacted snow and public roads: these were the conditions faced recently by the prototype of the Mercedes-Benz Vito with battery-electric drive.
The Vito with electric drive has to also pass all the same tests as combustion-engine Vito.
Van developers traditionally test new vehicles and components each winter in the far north, in Arjeplog/Sweden, just an hour’s drive from the Artic circle.
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Less Co2
Fuso Canter Eco Hybrid: fleet trial in London reaches half-way stage.
18 months into the three-year fleet trial, the hybrid technology has so far proved to be reliable.
Depending on the application, the Canter Eco Hybrid uses around 10 to 15 percent less fuel than a conventional light-duty truck, with correspondingly lower CO2 emissions. The ten light-duty trucks have so far saved around 5000 litres of fuel.
Great, we’ll keep you posted how the next 18 months go.
If you see a Fuso round town, we’ll then let us know!
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How the fuel cell works
We here at myvan are a forward looking bunch, this is why we send a lot of time thinking about the vehicles of today mixed with the drive technology of the future.
But how does it all work and more importantly how can a layperson understand all that techno jargon?
Well, take a look at this fuel cell program
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GM To Begin Testing Electric Car
Hi folks, did you know that the Volt can run up to 40 miles? The vehicle, initially introduced at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show, uses GM’s “E-Flex” architecture..
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Electric Car in-wheel motor?
Hey, take a look at this delevopment from Ferdinand Porsche. He put wheel motors on a battery electric car in 1897. They built about 300 of them. Not bad, heh?
For more information: http://electric-vehicles-cars-bikes.blogspot.com/
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Electric Car UK Charging Points
Hi you guys,here you’ll find a list of all the electric car battery charging points across the UK. Is that interesting?
For more information: http://www.electriccarsite.co.uk/electric-car-charging-points
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On the road to success with electric mobility!
Hi folks, today a found a very interesting link for a upcoming trade fair for electric mobility, eCarTec, which is to be held in Munich from October 19 to 21 as well as Paris. This fairs brings together all current developments and technologies in the sectors, including: electric vehicles, energy market, storage technology, drive trains, vehicle construction and a lot more. More about the fairs: http://www.ecartec.eu.
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How are Lithium Ion batteries made?
The future of electric mobility is in their hands but what are they and how are they made these lithium ion batteries?
We’ve done some research….
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Adaptive ESP, in the Sprinter
So what is adaptive ESP exactly?
Find out now…
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A day in the life
So they have yet to make a van version but here’s an interesting video a one possible future.
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Atomic Bus – the future drive system
As many here seem to be interested in the drive system of the future, I just remembered this one: the atomic bus – taken from the paramount movie in 1976 “The big bus” (a spoof of most disaster movies). It is a nuclear powered, double-decker, articulated bus with 32 wheels.
By the way, the socalled “Cyclops” was not really run on nuclear power 
, but by a huge Ford diesel. Well, at least that was the future they promised us 
Anybody interested in details? Here is an article about building the big bus.
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Paving the way for the drive system of the future
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter: emission-free and almost silent in urban use – a major step towards the drive system of the future.
Emission free Sprinter
There are a number of different paths which lead to emission-free and almost silent drive systems, but their common goal is clearly defined: tomorrow’s short-haul road vehicles will be electrically powered.
This is of particular relevance to vans, as many are used on a daily basis by courier and delivery services as well as tradespeople in environmentally sensitive areas.
The bridging technology to the all-electric vehicle is the hybrid drive: vans with a hybrid drive use a combustion engine in combination with an electric motor.
Sprinter clean drive
They are paving the way for the drive system of the future.
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