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President Barack Obama behind the wheel of a new Chevrolet Volt during his tour of the General Motors Auto Plant in Hamtramck, Michigan in 2010. In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama set the goal for the U.S. to become the first country to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. [20]
The BYD K series bus (sometimes just referred to as the BYD ebus or BYD electric bus) are a line of battery electric buses manufactured by the Chinese automaker BYD, powered with its self-developed lithium iron phosphate battery, featuring a typical operating range of 250 kilometres (160 mi) per charge under urban road conditions.
Weight: 900 kg (1,980 lb) Battery capacity: 100 kWh; Rear wheel drive; Estimated driving time on a race track at a GT4 pace is about 25 minutes. [4] The car has rear-wheel drive using two electric motors placed inside a specially designed "e-axle", [5] and uses carbon brakes. The monocoque has room for a driver 150 to 200 cm (4.9 to 6.6 ft) tall.
The General Motors EV1 is a battery electric car produced by the American automaker General Motors from 1996 until its demise in 1999.. A subcompact car, the EV1 marked the introduction of mass produced and purpose-built battery electric vehicles.
Li Auto Inc. (Chinese: 理想汽车; pinyin: Lǐxiǎng Qìchē; lit. 'ideal car') is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Beijing, with manufacturing facilities in Changzhou. [1] Founded by Li Xiang in 2015, the company mainly builds electric vehicles that use range extender petrol engine for a power supply. [ 3 ]
Pope Francis has received the first-ever all-electric popemobile from automaker Mercedes-Benz. The open-top vehicle, which for the last 45 years has been manufactured by the German luxury ...
The first Smart electric drive vehicles, still using the first generation type 450 body style, were modified by Zytek Electric Vehicles. They were powered by a rear-mounted motor driving the rear wheels. It ran on 13.2 kilowatt hours of sodium-nickel chloride Zebra batteries. These type of molten salt battery operates at 245 °C (473 °F).
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