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World's Most Advanced Electric Sports Car
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40 months, 4 weeks, 12 hours agoRicardo Engineering, headquartered in the United Kingdom, but with offices globally, including a new battery research facility in Michigan, has been helping develop advanced automotive vehicles and systems for 100 years.
Working either independently or collaboratively under contract, the company has amassed a great deal of expertise and knowledge in vehicle dynamics, transmissions and power trains.
Paul Boskovitch, Ricardo's chief engineer for advanced hybrid systems, shares some of his firm's insights and perspective in this 22-minute presentation delivered at the 2008 ACG Advanced Automotive Battery Investment Summit in Chicago this past June. In this talk, he focuses on both current and future technology trends as they apply to hybrid vehicles, especially their all-important battery technology.
As part of its Centennial Celebration, which included the official unveiling of the Chevrolet Volt E-Flex extended-range electric car, General Motor's hosted an experts panel discussion on the future of transportation in the 21st Century.
Panel members include: Dr. Larry Burns, GM's VP, Research & Development; Dr. Mark Duval, EPRI; Dr. Don Hillenbrand, ANL; John Gasesa, Casesa Shapiro Group, LLC; Chris Paine, director 'Who Killed the Electric Car?; and Joel Makower, Executive Editor Greener World Media, Inc., acting as moderator.
The topics and questions spanned a wide range of issues from discussions of the technology in the Volt to the current economic turmoil on Wall Street and its potential impact on the industry and consumers.
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