Drive Tones!! :-)

Today I’m going to talk about a problem in electrical vehicles : the sound. This post is a response to an interesting comment of my reader 🙂  In fact these car are completely silent. It is a problem for pedestrians and for blind people. For example the day of the launch of Autolib a woman was injured at the hip after being hit by a Blue car when she was crossing the road. She says that she didn’t hear the car coming.

To avoid these kind of accident most of cars manufacturer are thinking about adding an artificial sound in electric cars. They are working on adding a sound like a thermic motor when the car arrives in an area where there are a lot of pedestrians. They are also working on a new sound more ecologic to be consistent with the ecologic drive.

Funnier some manufacturer are speaking about downloading our personnal car sound like a ring tone in your moblie phone! Maybe in future days we will see cars with the sound of a spaceship or sound of an animal or a little car with the sound of a big motor! I think it will be funny but I don’t know if it is really safe. What do you think about that?

Companies!!

Today I’m going to compare two companies which are linked to electrical vehicles. The first company I chose is of course Renault because I’m working for Renault.  This company is very engaged in the electric vehicle and offers a wide range of vehicles:  the Twizy, Zoé, the Fluence or the Kangoo all these vehicles are going to be commercialized between the end of 2011 and the end of 2012. Twizy will be also used in Autolib system.

The second company I chose is PSA. This company is also engaged in sustainable development and the invest 3.5 billion euros in research and development.   PSA are more focused on hybrid technology with a new architecture called HYbrid4 used in the Peugeot Prologue and the Citroën Hypnos, they also lunch one electrical vehicle the VélV during 2011.

 

If you want more information about this two company you can go on this website for Renault : http://www.renault-ze.com/fr-fr/gamme-z.e.-6.html

and on this website for PSA : http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/fr/hp1.php

Interesting Website!

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evnews.shtml

I think that the better way to understand a topic is to see a real example, a way to illustrate what we are saying or why it is a good idea. This is why I found this website really interesting. In this website we can read the advantages of the Electrical vehicles thanks to key figures! I found it concise clear and well explained. In fact the different categories ; “energy efficient, environmentally friendly, performance benefits, reduce energy dependence, driving range, recharge time, battery cost and bulk & weight” ; are the most important information in electric cars we need to know! 

There are also some videos of  electric vehicles from different automobile designer. In my opinion this is a good idea because we can saw and compare different technologies and different performances.

In the others menues we can find a table where there are the specifications of cars and how much money we can save if we use electrical cars or trucks.

To conclude this website can list and illustrate the main information about electrical vehicles. I think it is a good introduction to this subject before searching more technical details

Welcome to my blog !

In this blog you are going to find information about electrical vehicles. I will talk about the differences between hybrid motors and electrical motors, environmental goals,  the new system called “autolib”, innovations…

 I chose to talk about electrical vehicles because I’m working in Renault and the electrical vehicle is a really important subject in this company. Moreover I think electrical vehicles will have a big impact in our life in few years.

This is a video about Renault Electrical Concept car