Altairnano and Aerovironment demonstrate Electric Fiat Doblo
Battery developer Altairnano has teamed up with Aerovironment, Micro-Vett SPA and Go Green Holding AS to demonstrate an electrified Fiat Doblo in Oslo, Norway. The Fiat is powered by of Altairnano's 18 kWh lithium titanate battery packs and is currently undergoing a sixty-day test. During a single day it ran 186 miles and underwent three 10-minute recharges with one of Aerovironment's 480V charging systems. The Fiat Doblo is a five passenger station wagon that was converted to electric drive by Micro-Vett. The plan is to run the Doblo about 4,660 miles during the two month test. Go Green will soon be distributing Micro-Vett converted vehicles, with twenty planned for the rest of this year. If everything works out, they hope to ship another 250 vehicles in 2008.
[Source: AltairNano]
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george 6:21PM (2/08/2009)
please build one in right hand drive & all wheel drive for us poor australians as we have such a very large country to get around plus we are sick of ancient petrol vechicles being re-sharped please continue the HUGE leap forward & good luck!!!!!!
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Pete 11:03AM (10/12/2007)
186 miles and three charges? So that's 60 miles a charge?
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Sam Abuelsamid 11:11AM (10/12/2007)
Given that Phoenix claims 130 miles from a 35kWh pack and this one uses an 18 kWh pack 60 miles is in the right ballpark.
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Domenick 11:34AM (10/12/2007)
You can see a video of the Go-Green guy charging them up here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcbx57Azisw
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Kardax 12:44PM (10/12/2007)
And the price is...?
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ug 7:28PM (10/12/2007)
More than joe-sixpack is willing to pay, that's for sure.
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Nicholas 6:51AM (10/14/2007)
No it´s 186 miles PER CHARGE. So it´s 3 X 186 miles, ok? lol some people never learn...
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MarkV 12:19PM (7/14/2008)
"No it´s 186 miles PER CHARGE. So it´s 3 X 186 miles, ok? lol some people never learn..."
Sorry, You are misreading it.
"During a single day it ran 186 miles and underwent three 10-minute recharges with one of Aerovironment's 480V charging systems. "
A) It was driven for one day.
B) That one day it went 186 miles
C) It was charged 3 times during that one day.
It is still very open for interpretation.
1) It was discharged completely and charged completely each time this ~60 miles per charge.
2) It was just driven around and charged randomly so its a minimum of 60 miles per charge.
microbatman 7:37PM (11/04/2007)
Where are these batteries being manfactured?
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