Milano Design Week: electric is highly fashionable
In these days, international spotlights are cast on Milan and on its Design Week, the international event in the Lombard capital city attended by visitors interested in design from all over the world, both...
At the customs more and more severe controls for electric motors
This topical news underlines how much the higher popularity of the market of electric motors is going hand in hand with a rise of controls and a growing severity in conformity with bureaucracy.
Recently, almost...
High-performance lithium-ion batteries
The company Cellforce Group, joint venture between Porsche and Customcells, has chosen BASF to collaborate exclusively in the development of cells for state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries. The agreement establishes that BASF supplies the active materials...
The great advance of Rimac manufacturer
The Croatian manufacturer of electric supercars and hi-tech solutions for e-cars, Rimac Automobili, has taken over Bugatti, the iconic French brand that since 1998 had been part of Volkswagen Group and that since the...
How converting a mini-digger into electric
The two protagonist companies are Honda, with its extractable batteries for bikes, and Komatsu, producer of heavy construction vehicles, that are collaborating for the joint development of electrified micro excavators powered by swappable Mobile...
Ready kits for electric aircrafts
The American MagniX, specialized in zero-emission solutions, has implemented two products for aviation, two ready-to-use electric motors for propellers.
The first is the electric propulsion unit Magni350-EPU, with 350 kW of maximum power, torque that...
Honda: 100% electric production by 2040
The goal that the new managing director, Toshihiro Mibe, has recently communicated and personally defined as "challenging but in line with the brand’s ambitious targets" is reaching a production of fully electric vehicles and...
Will the electric car to be assembled “do-it-yourself”, become reality?
The two Ikea and Renault brands were involved in the degree thesis of the young designer Ryan Schlotthauser, who has matched the highlights of the two brands to implement the design of a cheap...
Both motor and jet in the same device
Developed by Sealence spa, DeepSpeed in an innovative electric thruster where jet and electric motor are integrated in the same device, permitting the installation of the whole propulsion out of the hull, directly exposed...
Overcoming the traffic with the electric flying bus
Those who live in cities with much traffic have often imagined a flying bust that could transport quickly. A chimera? It seems that this can instead become reality: the United States startup Kelekona has...