ISRAEL21c.org sees the future of transportation in Israel, and it’s all green. Through Shai Agassi’s innovative “Project Better Place,” Israel will become the first country to mass produce electric cars.
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electric cars sucks
bless israel! well, that’s their way to fight islamofascists by not providing them anymore with money – one oil-customer less, one independent country more!
Its nice its good but compressed air cars take 3 min to fill off of a large tank.
Compressed air cars can run on steam and liquid nitrogen @ $2 per gallon.
They are cheaper to build too and there are no old batteries to dispose of.
And no there is no spontaneous combustion of the battery packs.
Fueling up costs more than owning the car!
We can utilize the energy of electricity to what is needed in normal daily driving. That is because we do not need 15,000 ft lbs of torque.
How come Israel is so full of Inventions and Hi Tech, produces so much Technology and drive these electric top-notch vehicles while their neighbour Countries produce martyrs, hate and still ride a donkey to work ?
The speaker at 1:15 looks like Mr. Bean
The solar panels don’t go on the car, they go on your house.
The car is recharged in the garage, fed by the panels on the roof of the house. I know people who are doing this right now.
The USA has never put any kind of embargo on Israel.
Where did you get that idea?
Israel is one of our best friends.
There are actually a lot of used EVs out there, I bought one a couple of years ago. If you start looking for them, you can find one. Also, it is not really that expensive to convert a regular manual transmission car to electric, it’s much cheaper than buying a readymade EV from a major automaker when/if they become available. Of course the style/performance may not be as impressive, but it’s better than wasting your life waiting for them to keep promises…
Planes don’t run on gasoline.
And, if there are fewer cars & trucks using petroleum based fuels, there will be more oil available to be made into jet fuel, and the price of flying will decrease. There may not be many other options for planes, but there are other options for cars & trucks.
promises promises
Israel is a very hi-tech country; maybe if there are enough of these cars on the road, it will provide the impetus for a more practical and longer-ranger battery.
And after this , some peace in the middle-East.
always can be the second car in the family: the one you drive to do shopping etc.
@Puppyjump Seems like the launch is really getting started there.
@nephil1977 well technically, installing a battery exchange infrastructure in rural and suburban areas should be just as easy as petrol stations.
This can definitely work for small countries. It could work here in the U.S. in cities as well, but without battery exchange infrastructure, it will be difficult to make this work in rural and suburban commuting scenarios. Love to see it come to fruition, though.
none, but by 2011 they will be on the road all over israel and by 2012 they will be all over the world!
it said 2011 on the news
you mean 2011
Commercial sales of electric cars are set for 2012. Better Place plans to start building charging stations this year.
So this video is a little over 2 years old. How many of these cars are on the road today?
My goodnes, I hope that free energy thing was a joke and was meant ironically. Maybe my ironic sensors are broken. In case not: THERE IS NO FUCKING(!!!) FREE ENERGY, get that in your mind. You can just transform a form of energy into another. There is no energy loss and especially no energy out of nothing. Even if you put a solar panel on your cars roof the energy is not comming from nowhere but from a big hot fireball shining on it thus getting the energy to drive your car or something else.
We are not focused on manufacturing cars… There are plenty of companies that will be manufacturing electric cars. Our focus is on the mass manufacturing of our capacitance primary side charge system for large scale installations (such as US Interstate Highway System) and our secondary side retrofit kit for any and all manufacturers of electric cars.
Im interested in buying one, so email me on here and tell me more.
why in wheel???? it require at least 2 motors to run the car i believe it make the car expensive…..
to save car space??? the motors can be built inside tire should be small enough to place inside the car…..
if a small error in one of the motors will make the motors run in different speed and not safe to run on road…. it doest make sense to make the car too complicated
to recharge the battery during deceleration for braking??? the traditional construction already have this fuction…
how does the motors hold up in weather? i didnt look like a very sealed system. are the only motors in the wheels? doesnt seem like it would have much power unless used in conjunction with another motor in driveline or hybrid with gasoline engine.
Rake and trail for front wheel use is missing. There would be no self centring if you let go of the wheel, the car would carry on in the turn.
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I guess a backup with friction brakes would not be required with four wheel drive. Redundancy is the ultimate safety factor.
I like the concept, my one concern is the effect of the unsprung mass on the performance of the vehicle.
this is really cool
yeh
dude i wanna see this on a car
If the electrical connection from the regenerative brakes is broken there would be no braking W?O a mechanical system as well, Same thing when the batteries are full W/O a dump system.
I think it is possible to generate much electricity inside the wheels.
I think it is possible to generate much electricity from inside the wheels.
Main question, whats the HP/KW and Torque?
@apedomann21 Batteries are still too expensive…
tsport100 knows his stuff! The redundancy offered by carefully designed electrical (braking) systems is actually superior to hydraulic braking systems which can suffer from leaks, wear, air in the lines, dampness in the friction assemblies, etc; many things that an electrical system is immune to…
This is the same drive than my electric bicycle, I am very interested in it for my nexw car (I wish it will be an electric car).
In France they are schepticals about the In-Wheel they say this” a washing machine’s motor in a wheel, is it serious”?
I imagine an Audi Qauttro with four wheels like these ones.
Hey I hear the Terminator melody in the music.
this is from 2007! Why havent they starting to make it yet??!
I want that on my car :3!
petrol <3
@tsport100 y piensa en el peso perdido por usar materiales de carroceria de las generacines pasadas
@meanman1992 te has puesto a pensar por que los carros no son más livianos, o mas eficientes, y sabemos que se puede? piensalo, no eres el dueño del negocio pero piensa por un momento como si lo fueras
@stealthcentral brushless motors can have their respective parts encased in plastic. there are no contacting parts, which is just one of many reasons that makes these motors far superior to internal combustion motors. there are also designs that incorporate batteries into the hub, for a complete system. now imagine purchasing 2 hub motor wheels and upgrading your geo metro with burnt out combustion motor… or dare i say it… boat car?
who here laghed at the name?
@AlaricAchos You can’t have ‘power loss’ if the motors generate power during braking!
As there are 4 separate motors each with their own inverter the system already has quadrupole redundancy, that’s more than any aircraft, the space shuttle or any hydraulic car braking system.
The only ‘back-up’ required is a bank of resisters to burn off braking energy when the battery is full or gets disconnected. A ‘rheostat’ braking system is used on 400T mine trucks and 20,000T freight trains.
@tsport100 no you still need the saftey back up of friction braks or a fail safe if case of power loss
With these way of directly having the power on wheels. A lot of saving on weight can be made. Transmission, propeller shaft, drive shaft, axles, differentials/housings are gone. 4wheels, 6wheels, or 8wheels, can really be made ‘All Wheel Drive”. With todays techno on automotive this is really good. But when can this be mass produce on every car makers in America? For sure outside America they’re doing this.
How is it in cold and snow? I am from Iceland, and when it is -10 ot – 25 °c battery in car go bad faster if you don’t use the car some days ” when car is moving then it is charge battery” ?