Incredibly, the Volar-e car displayed on the Applus Idiada stand will accelerate from 0-100km/h in under three seconds – not bad for an electric car. The Idiada engineering and technology division of the certification body Applus put all of the various technologies of this car together and fully tested it within nine months.
October 8, 2015
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Andrés Aparicio of Applus
Incredibly, the Volar-e car displayed on the 7863 Applus Idiada stand will accelerate from 0-100km/h in under three seconds – not bad for an electric car. The Idiada engineering and technology division of the certification body Applus put all of the various technologies of this car together and fully tested it within nine months. The organisation is here in Bordeaux promoting its proving ground for testing ITS communication systems.
Audi, Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, Toyota Motor Europe and other car manufacturers are currently carrying out technical field trials on testing LTE-Vehicular (LTE-V), which is seen as a potential enabler for road safety applications and traffic control services as well as emerging automated driving use.
The tests, which are being carried out on the A9 motorway in Germany, with the objective of assessing the performance of LTE-V for connected vehicle communications during its standardisation process.
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Buying an electric car may seem to be the green option when the energy label states Zero CO2 emissions. But that’s not the whole story when you factor in the electricity required to charge the batteries, and associated CO2 emissions created in electricity generation; the green benefits then become less clear. According to Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA), the latest Renault Clio 4, dCi 90 ECO, emits 83 grams of CO2 per kilometre travelled. In comparison the Electric Nissan Leaf, requires 173 Watts of elec
The latest roadside cabinet developed by Ritherdon is said by the company to be the world’s first passive roadside cabinet. To ensure that the product performed as specified in EN 12767, two full-scale crash-tests were carried out on the product.
The tests examine two parameters to define the safety level of the vehicle occupants at the time of impact: acceleration severity index (ASI) and theoretical head impact velocity (THIV). The car was crashed into the passively safe cabinet at 35km/h and 100 km
The market for hybrid and pure electric cars homologated as such is set to be US$188 billion in 2025 according to IDTechEx analysis.
However, according to Dr Peter Harrop, chairman of IDTechEx, the world has changed for cars overall and now big is not always beautiful for mainstream car manufacture. EVs will reflect this. Although Sergio Marchionne, boss of Fiat Chrysler, famously said six million units a year is needed for a car maker to be profitable, his head of research Pietro Perlo left to successf
