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Yet Another Flow Battery, Flo

June 7, 2011

An easy flow battery for the energy dense Yes the game of thrones in the battery kingdom continues with a new beast, this time a kind of flow battery that has a much greater energy density. With all the new batteries looming on the never-ending horizon, will this be yet another glimpse of high-energy hope [...]

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Sydney 2009 AEVA Field Day

November 2, 2009

Like last year, a good turn up and assortment of EV eye-candy was to be had for one and all and the Thunderskys are holding out well as expected with few reports of any issues with them in performance, range or charging. Some guys from my R&D group turned up, some friends from the ham [...]

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Zilla Back in Production?

June 5, 2009

News in from Otmar – the high-powered motor-controller maker has found new manufacturing feet for his famed Zilla controller. Double the top current-handling of my Curtis, the Zilla fills a much-needed hole in the EV market in the high-performance end. With water cooling built into some models, these things when fitted into a sports EV [...]

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A Charge is in the Air

June 2, 2009

Reports have been coming in of a new type of air-charged battery which could provide up to ten times the energy storage of a conventional lithium cobalt battery. Called the STAIR (‘St Andrews Air,’ where it was developed at Scotland’s University of St Andrews), it provides improved capacity via a porous carbon exchange cell lattice [...]

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Nissan Gearing up for Competition

May 22, 2009

The Nissan Nuvu (aka ‘new view’) announced some time ago may finally be arriving in Australia next year to compete against the Mitsubishi MiEV (and possibly Toyota iQ if they sort their red tape with the government) in what is gearing up to be a new spark of electric auto competition. An alternative to the [...]

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Electric Car-rent Trickling Towards Us

March 26, 2009

Now that heading is such a bad joke! I’ll just have to elaborate, sorry, but Better Place have had a few more musings lately, one being that the idea of fast charging stations will be to cater for cars that are leased only (a ‘Who Killed…‘ deja vu again?). The idea is to lease the [...]

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