A few weeks ago Motoring Weekly wrote an article about Lynk & Co and the Compact Modular Architecture that they were using in conjunction with their parent Volvo under the Geely group ownership. One of the components in that architecture has been provided by Maxwell Technologies: ultracapacitor modules. Maxwell have been supplying battery and electrical equipment for … [Read more...]
Delphi Fuel Efficiency Technology
The industry is in a state of flux at the moment - the media loves the idea of electric cars, although no one talks about where the electricity to recharge the vehicles is coming from. Honda and several other manufacturers are still developing fuel cells and Motoring Weekly recently wrote about the Nikola truck that uses this technology. There have also been articles about … [Read more...]
Waymo Buys More Vehicles
Motoring Weekly has written about robo-taxis before and this segment of the public transportation market is appears to be growing. Earlier this year, Waymo, a spin off from Google - but still owned by the parent company, Alphabet, committed to buying 62,000 Chrysler Pacifica mini-vans! However, all was not what it seemed. At the time it made headlines due to the size of the … [Read more...]
BP Buys Charging Unit Company
A few weeks ago, Motoring Weekly published an article about Royal Dutch Shell and Total, two of the biggest oil companies buying up other energy companies to diversify their portfolios. In Britain, BP has followed suit. Decades ago in a branding exercise, BP aka British Petroleum, had a go at renaming themselves “Beyond” Petroleum. It didn’t really work out, although now in … [Read more...]
Aquafuel Research Ltd
I read about this company and their technologies whilst following the ever-growing Formula E racing series for electric race cars. Aquafuel Research is a British company that specialises in renewable energy creation using existing technologies to keep costs down. The basis of their technology is two-fold: Extracting glycerine from renewable sources. Using a combined … [Read more...]
