About Alysha Webb

Excellent web, have feeling something bubbling in China on Ev front for export.

Greetings Alyisha from downunder, Your articles on EV’s and China are amazing and too much to read all! However the latest one involves a subject in which I am intensely involved.When you have read the following, you will see why an affordable PHEV will not create emissions at the fossil-fuelled power stations. The three links to websites will be worth your reading. The Protean one is being developed in China, and 2/3 investment is from there, 1/3 from US.
One of the great challenges facing all nations this century is reducing the air-pollution emitted by all vehicles. Seventy million new cars are produced annually, adding to city smog and health issues. Electric vehicles reduce emissions significantly, but their cost is many times that of their petrol equivalents. Until this is overcome, only a niche market can afford them, making them a nice conversation piece, but irrelevant as a global green solution.
• Electric cars (EV’s) like the Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi IE, cost three times as much as a petrol equivalent.
• EV’s give limited ranges of about 150km, causing range-anxiety, and flat batteries could cause traffic chaos.
• EV’s 150km range batteries need longer charging times – adding emissions at fossil-fuelled power stations
• Plug-in hybrid cars (PHEV’S) like the Chevy Volt, solve the range-anxiety by having a back-up petrol engine.
• PHEV’s solve the power-station emissions by having a smaller 70km range battery, enough for average daily commuting, & needing only overnight charging at home, when power stations cannot and do not switch off.
• BUT, the PHEV also costs about three times that of an equivalent petrol car.
Can this massive price-chasm to an affordable PHEV be bridged in the near future?

Three new technologies have emerged, which could make emission-free average daily commuting affordable:

• A new battery has been announced, with triple density, and about half the cost, and scheduled for mass production in two to three years – see http://www.enviasytems.com. Other battery competitor developments are also in the pipe-line.
• An electric “In Wheel” motor, eliminates a car’s entire transmission – gearbox, clutch, drive-shafts, and C/V joints, representing a massive saving in cost, weight, friction and bulk. One such development, already in an advanced prototype stage, is the Protean in-wheel engine. See http://www.proteanelectric.com .
• The back-up petrol engine in the PHEV Chevy Volt, is a 4-cylinder 4-stroke engine producing about 100 kW. A new patented technology CITS two-stroke engine,, which eliminates burning all its lubricant as two-strokes usually do, can produce this same output, from just two cylinders. CITS makes possible a V-twin so well-balanced that it can run about 60% more smoothly than before. So now the renowned low-cost of a two-stroke engine can be taken further with the cost-saving of two cylinders. In a simple PHEV, where the engine charges the batteries on-the-run when needed for longer trips, it can run at constant rpm, where it can be super-tuned for power, emissions and economy. See http://www.citsengine.com.
Smart Investors enabled the former two inventions to become commercial realities for industry. The CITS engine has passed early prototype stage, and now seeks funding via a share-offer in CITS PL for the final stage, direct fuel-injection and scientific data publication by world leaders in this highly specialised field – the key to gaining the attention of the motor industry. That is the strategy in place for the CITS technology, whose inventor was awarded a nomination by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE-A) for “Excellence in Automotive Engineering” and has an independent appraisal by an internationally respected expert. CITS PL owns the IP and patents in over 20 countries, in which up to 60% shareholding is offered in a formal Information Memorandum.