Power around the corner

Yes, we wish for more electric power than we have installed at the moment. After a large round of making contact to a manyfold of electric drive train producers and developers we are enjoying to get the offers now and to meet the people in person. At the moment we have halve a dozen on the shortlist. We are selecting these days who will be able to test their sample in the car. I am very anxious to come back to the blog with the new driving experiences soon.

keep rolling, Martin

Driving again the plug-in hybrid fiat 500 swisscleandrive.

The After several weeks of not too much visible activities, I had the chance to testdrive the prototype today again. With the repaired driving shaft, yet with the same suspension as before, and with a slightly changed rear axle geometry. These changes were merely feelable.
The thing that was all new today was the tuned up inverter that makes the electric motor put out up to 50% more power. This still is not as much as we want to have in the preseries, but it is already a lot more than we used to have. In fact, it makes the car accelerate on pure electricity in a way that almost feels good. At 60 km/h the gasoline engine starts up and helps with the acceleration.
I drove a lot in 4x4 mode as this is the most sustainable way to go in the present stage of development. The dynamic of the whole car feels really good. It picks up speed more quickly than with the original 1.2 Litre gas engine and it climbs hills not only more lightly but also in greater gears, as they don't appear to be as steep when the electric engine helps pushing the car. 

What we have right now is only a development stage, as the small sem motor can't hold the output for very long before it offs for temperature reasons. Yet it gives me the impression, how much fun it will be to
a: drive the Fiat 500 electric
b: have the two different motors cooperate when ever one needs the other
c: see (and hear) the relais switches work and function between the driver and its machines. 

This is just another step on the way. But it is clearly going the right direction.
Martin

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expand to the essential

• zero emission on you everyday drives
• fill up at the plug or the fuel station
• climatically sound, cost effective, silent
• maximum range
• four wheel drive

The grand new feeling

You will feel like always, just better. More torque, more horsepowers through the combination of the two parallel engines. Zero emission and 100% electric on your everyday drives to work, school, shops, sports, theatre. 4x4 in the mountains. 
On the highway and for longer distances you will make use of the freedoms of the combustion engine in the same car, that starts up and synchronizes automatically whenn needed and shuts off silently when uncalled-for.

Schwarzenegger in bmw. Looking perfect

Hybrid Leadership: Why not from BMW?

BMW's Efficient Dynamics Vision plug-in hybrid

On the eve of press days for the LA Auto Show, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used a press conference to push his - and California's - vision of a new, cleaner and greener future.

And what better vision forward than the BMW Vision plug-in hybrid? 31 miles of EV range coupled with a total range of 431 miles sounds like a smart vision forward for BMW.

content from http://www.hybridcarblog.com/2009/12/hybrid-leadership-why-not-from-bmw.html

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