Energy Independent Electric Vehicles: Amazing New Developments

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Professor Elias Siores of the University of Bolton in the UK, developing multi-mode harvesting fabric for sails and airships and other enablers declares, "Energy independent vehicles are the way to the future. Moving away from traditional power sources and into renewable energy through harvesting and conversion of energy is likely to happen soon. This necessitates the development and use of smart materials in systems capable of harvesting, converting, on-line use and storage. Current research is moving fast forward in this direction and academia and industry close collaboration is improving the state of the art continuously."

Also included in the event line-up is Hanergy of China which startled the industry with gallium arsenide bodywork on its prototype cars shown recently and due for launch 2020. They generate around one kilowatt but the challenge is to reduce the cost to manageable levels, something they promise to do while further increasing efficiency to 40%.

Martijn Lammers of Lightyear in the Netherlands, who is preparing a solar car for general sale in 2019 notes, "Energy independent vehicles might speed up the adoption of EVs. It makes them more scalable because they are less dependent on electric infrastructure."

Sono Motors recently presented the Sion at the Munich Technology Center. The innovative electric car has integrated solar cell as bodywork, not just a roof, a range of 250 km and it will cost only 16,000€ (excluding the battery).  

Toyota of Japan has recently patented an efficient wind turbine to charge cars when they are stationary. Speaker Professor Pietro Perlo of IFEVS Italy has another version. Indeed, speaker Joep Breuer reminds us, "Wind has the potential to power the world 20-100 times. Harnessing high altitude wind is essential to capture this potential and make the transition to a fossil fuel free transportation system possible. Kitepower is proud to be one of the leading companies in airborne wind energy". He refers to Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) first being commercialised in 2018 and suitable for roadside charging and powering energy independent ships.

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