Energy efficiency has become the decisive factor in electric motor choice
New research by ABB, in collaboration with Sapio Research, has surveyed nearly 2,400 global businesses to gain insight into the state of the market around energy efficiency, sustainability, digitalization, and the key...
Washington State Ferries selects ABB as propulsion single source vendor for five new hybrid...
ABB has secured a propulsion single source vendor contract with Washington State Ferries (WSF), the United States’ largest ferry system, for five new hybrid electric vessels
ABB has been...
Great results for the UniBoAT project of the University of Bologna
Futura, the sustainable propulsion boat, also composed of solar panels and an electric motor, built by the University of Bologna's UniBoAT project, won second place in the prestigious Prince Albert Award, third...
DHL sets up the first Electric Vehicle (EV) Center of Excellence
DHL announces the establishment at Pozzuolo Martesana, in the outskirts of Milan, of the first Electric Vehicle Center of Excellence for the electric mobility in Continental Europe. In collaboration with EV Teams...
Funding of 80 million USD for the Start-up Turntide
What do Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, the actor Robert Downey Jr., Hollywood star in the armour of Iron Man and Tony Fadell, father of the iPhone, have in common?
The trust with extreme conviction...
Fast photovoltaic recharge for electric vehicles
SMA, one of the top players in the field of system technologies for photovoltaic, has developed and made available the EV Charger platform, a solution to recharge electric vehicles by exploiting the photovoltaic current...
Electric boats: a “Tesla” in the waves
Among the companies that are trying to bring the electric motor in the world of boats, there is the Seattle start-up Zin Boats, which aims at producing electric boats and at ranking on the...
Life Cycle Assessment, electric car wins
For the same models with different power supplies, the carbon footprint of electric versions is already better than the one of the corresponding variants with internal-combustion engine. Moreover, electric vehicles provide a higher potential...
High-efficiency motors and sustainability
According to some studies, electric motors are responsible for about 45% of the total consumption of electric energy . If we focus the analysis on one the most energy-eating ambits, the industrial one, the...