Magna has created a complete electric powertrain with three motors and installed it in a Tesla Model S to showcase its system for interested car makers. It’s available now. All the manufacturer has to do is write a check.
The heads of major parts suppliers to the auto industry remain skeptical about electric cars. They think conventional cars will be with us for a long time yet.
While the outward consensus of the auto industry now seems to be that a wide rollout of self-driving vehicles and electric cars is inevitable, even if projected timelines vary somewhat, there are still some people out there who remain skeptical.
Croatian electric supercar manufacturer Rimac has built a name for itself as a designer and builder of insane 1000+ horsepower electric hypercars, but it has been hard at work behind the scenes on a different strategy altogether — to become the world’s leading OEM supplier for all things electric.
An important new industry guideline for wireless power transfer technology and infrastructure — “SAE TIR J2954 Wireless Power Transfer for Light-Duty Plug-In/ Electric Vehicles and Alignment Methodology” — was recently approved for publication by SAE International, according to reports. The new guideline will reportedly be available on the SAE website … [continued]
(Note that we’ve had a reader telling us more or less the same for the past several months.) Originally published on EV Obsession. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently published a new article stating that the Apple Car (iCar?) will be built in Austria by the firm Magna. The … [continued]
On numerous occasions, I have wanted to know and share some specs or other info regarding production electric cars and EV batteries but had a hard time finding what I was looking for — either because it was buried on the manufacturer’s site, not on there at all and hard to find in … [continued]
