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Aircraft Maker Will Produce Electric Cars in 2006

Posted by michael on from the still-waiting-for-flying-electric-car dept.

clarkie.mg writes "French aircraft maker Dassault has announced that they will team up with Hydro-Quebec to produce an electric car, available as of 2006. Hydro-Quebec will provide the lithium-metal-polymer (LMP) battery and the wheel motor propulsion system. The car will be built in partnership with a car specialist and sold in association with a large automaker not yet found."

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  1. Re:ATTENTION ENVIRONMENTALISTS! by pefdus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Australia, in 2005 is the completion date of a solar power tower, they, sbp of Germany are building.

    In short, the sun heats the air at the 7km diameter base 'glasshouse'.
    This hotair rises, up the 1km tunnel, spinning turbines as it moves.

    it's cool. (and hot)

    Here another article I found.

    So with more advances like this, we will get in the right direction ! :-)

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  2. Re:high hopes for the hybrid Escape by stew-a-cide · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ford's hybrid strategy actually makes sense. Instead of putting expensive hybrid powertrains in cheap and already effecient small cars, they're focusing their efforts on SUVs and large cars. The Escape (SUV) will have a hybrid powertrain in the next year or so, and the upcomming Futura (and I'm assuming it's relatives like the Mazda6, upcomming crossovers, etc.) will have one as well.

    Also the reason the hybrid Escape was pushed back was because Ford decided to do te engineering by itself from scratch (originally it was more of a publicity stunt and they were going to source a Toyota or Honda powertrain).

    And I assure you Ford designed powertrains run with the best of them. There's no reason to think their hybrid system won't be equal to or superior to what's coming from Honda/Toyota, especially since they have more engineering resources at their disposal and are pairing it to a newer an better gasoline engine family.

    GM seems to be aiming even higher by commiting themselves to hybrid full size pickups and SUVs in the next few years. That would make for MAJOR fuel savings. Of course it would be nice of them to have a car hybrid strategy as well...

  3. Better, cheaper, available now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My wife showed me an article about a two-seater diesel powered Mercedes apparently now available in Europe and apparently coming to North America in a couple of years. If I did the arithmetic correctly, it gets about a hundred miles per gallon. If you run it on bio-diesel, the greenhouse gas problem goes away. It seems to cost about the same as a Toyota Echo.

    Why the heck would I bother with an electric (or air powered) car?

    Favorite quote; "There are liars, there are damn liars and then there are battery chemists".