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Wrightspeed X1
The Wrightspeed X1 is a one-off Ariel Atom heavily modified to use an all-electric powertrain. The Atom was chosen for its light weight and efficient design. The electric motor and inverter are sourced from AC Propulsion, makers of the AC Propulsion TZero, TZero concept car, while the batteries are low weight, high energy density lithium ion battery, lithium ion provided from A123 Systems. As with the ''Atom'' the transmission is a Honda unit, but stripped of its shifting mechanism and other parts to provide only the second gear speed, allowed by the wide speed and torque range available from the electric motor. Built by San Francisco, California, San Francisco-based New Zealand engineer Tesla, Inc., Ian Wright, the X1 created a stir when it bested several sports cars in a Drag racing, drag race, including a Porsche Carrera GT, Carrera GT (even with a rolling start, an advantage for the gas burning vehicles), all while being filmed by local news station KRON-TV, KRON 4. Despite t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrightspeed
Revo Powertrains is an electric vehicle powertrain company based in Alameda, California founded by Tesla co-founder Ian Wright. The name Revo Powertrains is a Fictitious Business Name filed with Alameda County, California by Wrightspeed, Inc. (a Delaware corporation). Products The Wrightspeed Route is a plug and play repower kit for commercial trucks. It is a high-power medium-duty vehicle powertrain that uses electric drive with an onboard power station for efficiency and range and is a series hybrid retrofit kit for trucks. The kit includes controls, 200 kW inverter, electric motors, gear box with clutch-less shifting, battery pack, battery management system, and LCD user interface. Medium-duty trucks in the US are defined as vehicles with gross vehicle weights of . Founder Ian Wright discusses motivations for building truck powertrains in aTedX TalkanUnfiltered interview Clients * FedEx * NZ Bus [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tesla Motors
Tesla, Inc. ( or ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles (electric cars and electric truck, trucks), battery energy storage from home to Grid-scale storage, grid-scale, solar panels and Solar roof shingles, solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla is one of the list of public corporations by market capitalization, world's most valuable companies and remains the world's most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of more than US$550 billion. In 2021, the company had the most worldwide sales of battery electric vehicles and plug-in electric vehicles, capturing 21% of the battery-electric (purely electric) market and 14% of the plug-in market (which includes plug-in hybrids). Through its subsidiary Tesla Energy, the company develops and is a major installer of photovoltaic systems in the United States. Tesla Energy is also one of the lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concept Cars
A concept car (also known as a concept vehicle, show vehicle or prototype) is a car made to showcase new styling and/or new technology. They are often exhibited at motor shows to gauge customer reaction to new and radical designs which may or may not be mass-produced. General Motors designer Harley Earl is generally credited with inventing the concept car, and did much to popularize it through its traveling Motorama shows of the 1950s. Concept cars never go into production directly. In modern times all would have to undergo many changes before the design is finalized for the sake of practicality, safety, regulatory compliance, and cost. A " production-intent" prototype, as opposed to a concept vehicle, serves this purpose. Design Concept cars are often radical in engine or design. Some use non-traditional, exotic, or expensive materials, ranging from paper to carbon fiber to refined alloys. Others have unique layouts, such as gullwing doors, 3 or 5 (or more) wheels, or speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roadsters
__NOTOC__ Roadster may refer to: Transportation * Roadster (automobile), an open, two-seat, often sporty car ** Roadster utility, an automobile with an open-topped roadster body and a rear cargo bed * Roadster (bicycle), a utilitarian bicycle, typically traditional in design * Roadster (horse), a type of driving competition for horses * A roadster motorcycle, another name for a standard Vehicle models Cars * Haynes ''Roadster'', a roadster sports car * Mazda MX-5, a sports car known as the Mazda Roadster in Japan * Morgan ''Roadster'', a roadster sports car * Panoz ''Roadster'', a sports car * Smart ''Roadster'', a sports car * Singer ''Roadster'', a roadster touring car * Tesla ''Roadster'' (first generation), an all-electric sports car **Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a Space sui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venturi Fétish
The Venturi Fétish was an early-2000s two-seat limited-production electric sports car. It was built by Venturi in Monaco, and the design of the car was done by the Parisian designers Sacha Lakic. It holds the title of being the first electric sports car in history. It was first unveiled in 2002 and was sold for the first time in November 2004 in the Japanese market. Only 25 units have been produced. Production of the car was stopped in 2007, with a new version being launched in 2010. Overview Before its electric version, a petrol version of the same vehicle (fitted with a Renault petrol engine) was introduced in concept form at the 2002 Geneva Motor Show, and was also shown at the 2002 Paris Motor Show and the 2003 North American International Auto Show. First sold in the year 2004, a new version of the car was launched in 2010. It is not a mass-produced vehicle. Only 25 units have been produced. The production of this electric sports car was stopped in the year 2007. Tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Think Global AS
Think Global was an electric car company located in Bærum, Norway, which manufactured cars under the ''TH!NK'' brand. Production of the Think City was stopped in March 2011 and the company filed for bankruptcy on June 22, 2011, for the fourth time in 20 years. The company was bought soon after by Electric Mobility Solutions AS and production ceased in August 2012 with no more announcements regarding future production. , a total of 2,500 units had been manufactured at Oslo-based TH!NK’s production facility. History The company was founded in January 1991 in Bærum, as "Pivco" (for Personal Independent Vehicle Company). The first practical prototype, the ''PIV2'', like the vehicles that followed, were built around a chassis made of aluminum and carrying a body made of polyethylene thermoplastic rotomolded in one piece. The chassis were developed by Hydro Aluminium Tonder in Tønder in Denmark and were one of the main reasons that Ford later acquired 51% of the stock. 10 of 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tesla Roadster (2008)
The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric vehicle (BEV) sports car, based on the Lotus Elise chassis, that was produced by the electric car firm Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) in California from 2008 to 2012. The Roadster was the first highway legal serial production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production all-electric car to travel more than per charge. It is also the first production car to be launched into deep space, carried by a Falcon Heavy rocket in a test flight on February 6, 2018. Tesla sold about 2,450 Roadsters in over 30 countries, ''More than 2,350 units sold through June 2012''. ''Sales during the 3Q 2012: 68 Roadsters and 253 Model S.'' and most of the last Roadsters were sold in Europe and Asia during the fourth quarter of 2012. Tesla produced right-hand-drive Roadsters from early 2010. The Roadster qualified for government incentives in several nations. According to the U.S. EPA, the Roadster can travel on a single charg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightning GT
The Lightning GT is a battery-electric sports car under development by the Lightning Car Company, a London-based privately owned and funded business. The project was initially unveiled to the public in July 2008 at the British International Motor Show, with deliveries originally expected in 2009, but without funding the project has effectively been on hold in recent times. The GT was displayed at the 2014 Low Carbon Vehicle Event with Magtec. The GT was displayed at the London Motor Show in May 2016 as one of the main features and placed in front of the show entrance where anecdotally it received great critical acclaim for its enduring styling. Most recently the Lightning was in Paris where it was shown by a French manufacturer to their Asian partner with a view to a long term EU and Asia association. The silver Lightning GT show car has now been accepted for a placement at the British Motor Museum where it will go on display from April onwards. It has been accepted there a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keio University Eliica
The Eliica (or the Electric Lithium-Ion Car) is a battery electric vehicle prototype or concept car first shown in 2004 and designed by a team at Keio University in Tokyo, led by Professor Hiroshi Shimizu. The car runs on a lithium-ion battery and can accelerate from 0– in four seconds (faster than the Porsche 911 Turbo at the time). In 2004, the Eliica reached a speed of on Italy's Nardò High Speed Track. The team's goal is to exceed , breaking the record set by today's street-legal gasoline-powered vehicles. Shimizu's new project is called "SIM-Drive" (シムドライブ), with wheel hub motors. KAZ The Eliica is a refinement of the earlier KAZ (Keio Advanced Zero-emission vehicle), a limousine-sized 8-wheel 8-person electric vehicle prototype of 2003 that also set speed records. Design details The Eliica weighs and seats the driver and three passengers. The body was tested in a wind tunnel. The front doors open forward and the rear doors open upward like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AC Propulsion Tzero
The tzero is a handmade battery electric vehicle, electric sports car designed and built in very limited numbers by the U.S. company AC Propulsion in the early 2000s. It was the direct predecessor of the Tesla, Inc., Tesla line of electric cars. The tzero was based on the Piontek Sportech kit car, which consists of a fiberglass body built over a reinforced steel space frame with Double wishbone suspension, double wishbone independent suspension and rack and pinion steering. AC Propulsion added the AC Propulsion#Vehicles using an AC Propulsion electric drivetrain, AC-150 drivetrain, a single-speed electric system with an overall gear ratio of 9:1. Launched in January 1997, only three prototypes were built and plans for commercial production were dropped in mid-2003. The name comes from Tzero, ''t''0, the mathematical symbol for a starting point in time. Due to high production costs, AC Propulsion ceased to produce the tzero. Only three were built, and as of 2017 only 1 survived. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Jamais Contente
''La Jamais Contente'' ( en, The Never Contented) was the first road vehicle to go over . It was a Belgian electric car, electric vehicle with a Aluminium alloy, light-alloy torpedo-shaped bodywork and Battery (electricity), batteries. The high position of the driver and the exposed chassis underneath spoiled much of the aerodynamics. The light alloy, called partinium, is a mixture of aluminium, tungsten and magnesium. The land speed record was established on 29 April or 1 May 1899 at Achères, Yvelines near Paris, France. The vehicle had two Postel-Vinay 25 kilowatt, kW motors, each driving the rear axle via a chain, running at 200 volt, V and drawing 124 ampere, A each, for about 68 horsepower, hp total, and was equipped with Michelin tires. The chassis was number 25. Driver The vehicle was driven by the Belgians, Belgian driver Camille Jenatzy. Camille was the son of Constant Jenatzy, a manufacturer of rubber products (rubber was still a novelty at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steering
Steering is a system of components, linkages, and other parts that allows a driver to control the direction of the vehicle. Introduction The most conventional steering arrangement allows a driver to turn the front wheels of a vehicle using a hand–operated steering wheel positioned in front of the driver. The steering wheel is attached to a steering column A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. ..., which is linked to rods, pivots and gears that allow the driver to change the direction of the front wheels. Other arrangements are sometimes found on different types of vehicles; for example, a tiller or rear-wheel steering. Tracked vehicles such as bulldozers and tanks usually employ differential steering, where the tracks are made to move at different speeds or even in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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