Renault new cooperation in electric cars

Renault new cooperation in electric cars

The French automaker Renault and the leasing company ALD Automotive have signed a cooperation agreement under which works in the marketing of electric vehicles for fleet management. The Leasinfirma would inspire consumers with an attractive price for electric vehicles. The first electric cars are already in 2011 will be available on the market. In the development of electric vehicles, along with Nissan and Renault is working in two years will offer some electric car models for sale.

One of the vehicles of Kangoo ZE is a 60-hp electric motor and having the lithium-ion battery has a range of 100 kilometers. The battery performance is, however, over the next 1.5 years improved and the range can be increased to 160 kilometers. The rising fuel prices will rise because of falling oil reserves in the coming years. The electric cars have enjoyed already a slowly increasing demand. The prices today are still relatively high but are expected to fall with the technical development of electric vehicles and they are therefore more affordable.

Karmann is back - focusing on electric cars

The insolvent sports car manufacturer Karmann has received a development contract from the Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen AG as the "New Osnabruecker newspaper reported. The order volume amounts to the newspaper report referred to a two-digit million amount. The convertible specialist can use the money now to finance a transfer company. There are 1,600 people outsource and receive qualifications for the job market.

The company should be continued, with 1,500 employees, according to his insolvency administrator Ottmar Hermann. His focus would like the small car manufacturers in electric vehicles. For this, the mobile subsidiary E-Karmann GmbH was founded and can already point to new orders.

In 2011 the mass production start of a first electric cars and within seven years of which a minimum of 100,000 units sold. In the development of electric vehicles between Volkswagen and Karmann some time to work together. The second stimulus package the federal government has a positive effect for Karmann because of it he will probably by the year 2011, a grant of 20 million euros obtained. The focus on electric cars is a good decision as this will save not only jobs but also the future. The electric vehicles will soon be a normal street scene but before they have cheaper and the range can be increased.

Volkswagen - electric cars from 2013

The Wolfsburg-based automaker Volkswagen AG wants to start after a report in the Handelsblatt already in four years with the production of electric cars. According to the VW boss Martin Winterkorn, the "New Small Family" with the "Up" serve as the basis for electric cars. At present, there is the new series "Up" in the development, and it is a very small class of one level below the VW Polo. According Winterkorn is the people want an electric vehicle that the removal of Munich - Hamburg can drive.

The auto industry is still facing major hurdles as more batteries, the purchase prices for electric vehicles and a nationwide supply of power stations. In addition to presenting the plans to build electric cars of the CEO had referred to the latest sales figures. The number of vehicles sold worldwide was down 5.1 percent. The world market, however, had recorded an overall decline in sales of 18 percent. The scrapping and strong demand in the Chinese car market made for a smaller sales decline than the competition.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review, @laptopsbattery.us blog

Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review, @laptopsbattery.us blog

ThinkPad T61 14.1″ widescreen notebook

Important to note is that this review covers the 14.1″ widescreen version of the T61 series. As with any laptop model series, there are going to be widely varying configurations you can choose that will greatly affect system performance.

Specs:

• Processor: Intel T7300 Core 2 Duo (2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 4MB Cache)


• Graphics: Intel GMA X3100


• Operating System: Windows Vista Business


• Display: WXGA+ 1440 x 900 (LG screen)


• Hard Drive: 100GB 7200RPM (Seagate Momentus 7200.1)


• Memory: 2GB (1GB x 1GB), up to 4GB max


• Ports: 3 USB 2.0, 1 FireWire, Monitor out, modem, Ethernet, headphone out, microphone in


• Slots: 1 PC Card Slot, 1 ExpressCard slot (optional media card reader and Smart Card reader)


• Optical Drive: Ultra-slim Super-Multi Drive


• Dimensions: 13.2″ x 9.3″ x 1.09 - 1.26″ (335mm x 237mm x 27.6 - 31.9mm)


• Weight: 5.1lbs

The good: Internal roll cage protects LCD; 802.11n Wi-Fi for faster wireless throughput; very small A/C adaptor adds little to overall travel weight; Intel's Active Management Technology provides remote support.

The bad: New Centrino technology doesn't offer outsize performance gains.

The bottom line: Lenovo's 14-inch ThinkPad T61 shaves a few millimeters off the company's more mainstream R-series laptops, but still boasts the same, solid ThinkPad DNA along with IT-friendly features by way of Intel's new Centrino Pro platform.

Design and Build

The ThinkPad T61 is a premium product with a durable build, it is geared towards business users or simply those willing to pay a bit more to get something that won't fall apart after 1-year of use. For somebody that travels a lot or relies on their notebook to earn a livelihood, the build and reliability factor is probably more important than having the latest and greatest components inside.

The keyboard remains the same between the T61 and T60 — meaning it's once again excellent. The only difference is that now there's more room on the keyboard side areas since the notebook body is wider, the speakers have been relocated to this extra real estate. The keyboard is spill proof and has two drain holes to make sure if you do happen to spill your morning Starbucks coffee, the liquid is carried away from sensitive components and out through the bottom of the notebook.

The hard drive is protected within the magnesium roll cage and shock mounted. Even if your T61 is dropped the included Active Protection System (APS) software will work with the on board accelerometer to detect a fall situation and end hard drive activity to prevent data loss.

Screen

The new widescreen format screen for the 14.1″ T-series is either good, bad or somewhere in between depending on your personal preference. Lenovo will try and convince you widescreen offers more screen real estate and so it's better, the reality is the guys making the LCD screens are forcing it down the throats of the PC manufacturers because it's cheaper to make widescreen LCDs.

The particular screen I got is a WXGA+ resolution (1440 x 900). It provides easy viewing and you can fit a good amount on the screen, so no complaints on that front. The screen is crisp and there are no issues with graininess. The matte finish ensures there's little to no glare in office lighting situations.

Processor and Performance

The ThinkPad T61 now uses the Intel Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa) platform. You get a faster processor front side bus (800MHz), more processor cache (4MB) and an improved integrated graphics solution in the form of the Intel X3100. If all that talk is nonsense to you, then suffice it to say the T61 offers newer and better processing components than the T60. Will this performance be perceivable in helping to run MS Word faster? No of course not, but certain processor intensive tasks such as encoding video will be faster. And even if you won't be utilizing every ounce of processing power, just knowing the processor is faster and you're on top of the game is enough to make people like myself want to buy it.

Battery Life

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One thing that's always a concern with a new platform is battery life. Reading the first reviews that came out about the T61 sounded like gloom and doom with reports of 2 hour battery life. It seems most of the initial reviews were done using very power hungry dedicated graphics solutions and with a 4-cell battery.

I had the opportunity to test a larger 6-cell battery on an integrated graphics system, and got 3 hours and 41 minutes of battery life under what I would deem normal usage. I was using the T61 with screen brightness set to half or lower, Vista battery optimized setting, wireless off to get this number. In a torture test, I set the screen brightness to top level, put in a DVD (Stargate) and played it until the battery hit 5% and the PC went to sleep – which happened after exactly 2 hours 15 minutes. I wouldn't call that bad, it'll get you through most movies.

The downside of a 6-cell battery is that it sticks out of the back (see pics) and weighs more, but I'm always be willing to carry a bit more weight for an extra hour of battery life. A positive comment that should be made is the power adapter is nice and small, it's actually the same size as the X60 ultraportable series adapter.

Keyboard / Touchpad / Pointing Stick

The ThinkPad T-series hasn't changed too much over time, and that's a good thing, there's no use changing something that's just right. The ThinkPad keyboard is one of, if not the best, notebook keyboards out there. There's zero flex, every key feels individual, every key has great travel/feedback and the keyboard is full-size.

The T61 has a pointing stick, I love using this and find it much easier than the provided touchpad — it makes it so you can move the cursor around the screen without having to lift your hand from the keys, a much faster and easier to control style of input. But the great thing is that if the pointing stick isn't your cup of tea then you've got the touchpad as well.

Wireless

The ThinkPad T61 uses the Intel 4965 wireless chip that offers 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless reception. All of your bases are covered there, and the greater range 802.11n offers is on the table if you have an 802.11n router. The range of the ThinkPad is theoretically greater now that the lid material has changed to plastic too. The antenna is run up through the lid for better reception you see, and the new lid material allows radio waves to reach the antenna more easily. I was only able to test up to 100-feet away from my NetGear WGR614 802.11g wireless router, which I despise for its bad performance and tendency to drop connections, but the T61 worked just fine with it and I never suffered a connection drop and throughput was consistently good.

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TU Bergakademie Freiberg is working on new battery

TU Bergakademie Freiberg is working on new battery

The scientists of TU Bergakademie Freiberg work under the "Lithium-initiative Freiberg" in the development of powerful lithium-ion batteries. Will be developed with partners from industry and the question of how the lithium needs to be covered is also part of the project. "With the lithium-initiative created at the TU Bergakademie a scientific Lithium-Competence Centre that helps Saxons into a leading location of the lithium technology," said Prof. Voigt, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and initiator of the lithium-initiative.

The partners Geokompetenz the center Freiberg eV, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources Hannover (BGR) and the Autonomous University in Potosi (Bolivia). Participating companies include the K-UTEC Salt Technologies AG and ERCOSPLAN. In the Materials Research at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, the lithium-research has already been well established. After an assessment by Prof. Li Voigt will become a strategic energy resource. The raw material Lithium is available worldwide but only in low concentration and their collection is an enormous technical effort required. In the coming years there will be a rapid demand for the alloy. The demand is triggered by this particular electric vehicles and hybrid cars, where lithium-ion batteries are installed.

At present, lithium to 75 percent in the high mountains of South America won and dried out while the rest of solutions of salt lakes. The biggest supplier of Li-world countries are Argentina and Chile. In the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, however, the South African country the largest reserves are located but have not been drilled. Together with the Autonomous University of Potosi in a research project was started connected to the target as an effective method for the extraction of lithium salts to develop.

Single charging plug decided for electric cars

The auto companies and the electronics industry have agreed with charging for electric cars on a single standard. The standard connector to ensure that electric vehicles anywhere in Europe is not only fast but also reliable can be refueled at gas stations with new energy flow. According a report by the newspaper "Die Welt" could the companies agree on a Dreistufenl sung. It was agreed on 400 volts and up to 63 amps so that high load speed is reached. In houses, garages and service stations must be built according to this new lines. Compared to a normal domestic power line should not have the new plug to charge an empty battery in hours but minutes.

The company will present at the Hanover Fair the uniform charging and technical innovations to the visitors. Electric cars create hopefully with the adopted standard plug the breakthrough. However, before batteries need to be developed which allow a much greater range than the current models.

The prices for batteries and electric cars also have to fall more affordable. Who today would buy an electric vehicle like the Twike needs for investing at least 18,000 euros. The range of the Twike is a single charge at 200 km and allow for its efficient electric drive to lower energy consumption. Currently there are about 400 charging stations in Germany, and it will still take some years before there will be a nationwide gas stations network.

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