Electric Cars for Everyone

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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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Better Place, Electric Car, ev, Li-Po, Logisystems, MiEV, STAIR, STAIR Air Battery, St Andrews Air, Synkro, Thundersky, University of St Andrews, Zilla

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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written by Carmel Duryea Morris \\ tags: Batteries, Better Place, Carmel Duryea Morris, electric vehicle, ev, STAIR, STAIR Air Battery, St Andrews Air, Thundersky, University of St Andrews