China: world’s largest electric car manufacturers soon?

China: world’s largest electric car manufacturers soon?

According to a recent study by management consultancy Bain & Co., China could rise up to the year 2019 the world’s largest manufacturers of electric cars. The reason is the substantial support from the Chinese government and therefore could only be strengthened developments in the Asian country. In March, China had presented a plan under which the country is to become a leading manufacturer of vehicles with alternative engines. Already in two years, the goal to strive for when you leave half a million vehicles a year and have the works on alternative drives.

Much of the Chinese people and that over 60 percent purchase low-cost cars. U.S. citizens, Japanese, Europeans and South Koreans decide only for an electric car if the price is right. The price is at 55 percent of customers a criterion of great weight. The Chinese overwhelmingly consider the right price, on the available charging stations and battery power.

The brand and the design have largely unimportant. According to the study results should demand per year, based on electric vehicles at 1.5 million units are located. The offer and the technological development would have a decisive influence on the demand.

Tesla Motors seeks to Germany

The U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors wants to open the year in Germany, two showrooms and interested parties will have the opportunity to test the Tesla Roadster to home. This was announced by CEO Elon Musk the online edition of the car magazine “Auto, Motor und Sport”. In the British capital London is already the end of June, the first European showroom will be opened. The cities of Munich and Monaco would then follow next. The electric sports car Tesla Roadster has been sold 500 times on a single charge and has a range of 150 to 200 kilometers.

The energy of the powerful electric motor draws from a 7000 high cell lithium-ion battery. The top speed is 200 km / h and the sports car can accelerate from 0 to 100m km / h in less than four seconds. The Tesla Roadster will arrive in an improved version with better performance on the European car market and cost around 100,000 €. The vehicle will be presented to potential buyers by teams on site. Already this year sales of 240 vehicles is planned in Europe. The Stuttgart automaker Daimler AG has joined a few weeks ago with a stake of 10 percent for Tesla Motors. In the past week had to accept the electric car manufacturer with a damper, as had 350 Tesla Roadsters are being recalled because of problems at the rear axle.

Mitsubishi shows the first electric car production model

The Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi in the Austrian city of Flachgau iMiev with the presented last Thursday, the first electric car of its planned high-volume production. Next year it will come on the market in Austria and then to a price equivalent to around 20,000 to EUR 25,000 have to be. The range of the electric vehicle is in relation with the hard-to-remember model name on a battery charge at 140 kilometers. The electric motor output amounts to 64 HP and the vehicle can be accelerated to a top speed of 130 mph.

Charging an empty battery takes from the normal household outlet for consolidated information about 7 hours. If however the battery in a power outlet as they are in business, the refueled battery charging time is only 30 minutes. iMiev come when and at what price the Mitsubishi on the German car market is not yet known. The electric car of the Japanese automaker is hard to distinguish between a normal small car and will therefore surely be able to sell well.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review, @laptopsbattery.us blog

Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review, @laptopsbattery.us blog

ThinkPad T61 14.1″ widescreen notebook

Important to note is that this review covers the 14.1″ widescreen version of the T61 series. As with any laptop model series, there are going to be widely varying configurations you can choose that will greatly affect system performance.

Specs:

• Processor: Intel T7300 Core 2 Duo (2.0GHz, 800MHz FSB, 4MB Cache)


• Graphics: Intel GMA X3100


• Operating System: Windows Vista Business


• Display: WXGA+ 1440 x 900 (LG screen)


• Hard Drive: 100GB 7200RPM (Seagate Momentus 7200.1)


• Memory: 2GB (1GB x 1GB), up to 4GB max


• Ports: 3 USB 2.0, 1 FireWire, Monitor out, modem, Ethernet, headphone out, microphone in


• Slots: 1 PC Card Slot, 1 ExpressCard slot (optional media card reader and Smart Card reader)


• Optical Drive: Ultra-slim Super-Multi Drive


• Dimensions: 13.2″ x 9.3″ x 1.09 - 1.26″ (335mm x 237mm x 27.6 - 31.9mm)


• Weight: 5.1lbs

The good: Internal roll cage protects LCD; 802.11n Wi-Fi for faster wireless throughput; very small A/C adaptor adds little to overall travel weight; Intel's Active Management Technology provides remote support.

The bad: New Centrino technology doesn't offer outsize performance gains.

The bottom line: Lenovo's 14-inch ThinkPad T61 shaves a few millimeters off the company's more mainstream R-series laptops, but still boasts the same, solid ThinkPad DNA along with IT-friendly features by way of Intel's new Centrino Pro platform.

Design and Build

The ThinkPad T61 is a premium product with a durable build, it is geared towards business users or simply those willing to pay a bit more to get something that won't fall apart after 1-year of use. For somebody that travels a lot or relies on their notebook to earn a livelihood, the build and reliability factor is probably more important than having the latest and greatest components inside.

The keyboard remains the same between the T61 and T60 — meaning it's once again excellent. The only difference is that now there's more room on the keyboard side areas since the notebook body is wider, the speakers have been relocated to this extra real estate. The keyboard is spill proof and has two drain holes to make sure if you do happen to spill your morning Starbucks coffee, the liquid is carried away from sensitive components and out through the bottom of the notebook.

The hard drive is protected within the magnesium roll cage and shock mounted. Even if your T61 is dropped the included Active Protection System (APS) software will work with the on board accelerometer to detect a fall situation and end hard drive activity to prevent data loss.

Screen

The new widescreen format screen for the 14.1″ T-series is either good, bad or somewhere in between depending on your personal preference. Lenovo will try and convince you widescreen offers more screen real estate and so it's better, the reality is the guys making the LCD screens are forcing it down the throats of the PC manufacturers because it's cheaper to make widescreen LCDs.

The particular screen I got is a WXGA+ resolution (1440 x 900). It provides easy viewing and you can fit a good amount on the screen, so no complaints on that front. The screen is crisp and there are no issues with graininess. The matte finish ensures there's little to no glare in office lighting situations.

Processor and Performance

The ThinkPad T61 now uses the Intel Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa) platform. You get a faster processor front side bus (800MHz), more processor cache (4MB) and an improved integrated graphics solution in the form of the Intel X3100. If all that talk is nonsense to you, then suffice it to say the T61 offers newer and better processing components than the T60. Will this performance be perceivable in helping to run MS Word faster? No of course not, but certain processor intensive tasks such as encoding video will be faster. And even if you won't be utilizing every ounce of processing power, just knowing the processor is faster and you're on top of the game is enough to make people like myself want to buy it.

Battery Life

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lenovo thinkpad t61 battery, 14.1″ standard screens and 15.4″ widescreen + 14-inch wide lenovo t61 battery

One thing that's always a concern with a new platform is battery life. Reading the first reviews that came out about the T61 sounded like gloom and doom with reports of 2 hour battery life. It seems most of the initial reviews were done using very power hungry dedicated graphics solutions and with a 4-cell battery.

I had the opportunity to test a larger 6-cell battery on an integrated graphics system, and got 3 hours and 41 minutes of battery life under what I would deem normal usage. I was using the T61 with screen brightness set to half or lower, Vista battery optimized setting, wireless off to get this number. In a torture test, I set the screen brightness to top level, put in a DVD (Stargate) and played it until the battery hit 5% and the PC went to sleep – which happened after exactly 2 hours 15 minutes. I wouldn't call that bad, it'll get you through most movies.

The downside of a 6-cell battery is that it sticks out of the back (see pics) and weighs more, but I'm always be willing to carry a bit more weight for an extra hour of battery life. A positive comment that should be made is the power adapter is nice and small, it's actually the same size as the X60 ultraportable series adapter.

Keyboard / Touchpad / Pointing Stick

The ThinkPad T-series hasn't changed too much over time, and that's a good thing, there's no use changing something that's just right. The ThinkPad keyboard is one of, if not the best, notebook keyboards out there. There's zero flex, every key feels individual, every key has great travel/feedback and the keyboard is full-size.

The T61 has a pointing stick, I love using this and find it much easier than the provided touchpad — it makes it so you can move the cursor around the screen without having to lift your hand from the keys, a much faster and easier to control style of input. But the great thing is that if the pointing stick isn't your cup of tea then you've got the touchpad as well.

Wireless

The ThinkPad T61 uses the Intel 4965 wireless chip that offers 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless reception. All of your bases are covered there, and the greater range 802.11n offers is on the table if you have an 802.11n router. The range of the ThinkPad is theoretically greater now that the lid material has changed to plastic too. The antenna is run up through the lid for better reception you see, and the new lid material allows radio waves to reach the antenna more easily. I was only able to test up to 100-feet away from my NetGear WGR614 802.11g wireless router, which I despise for its bad performance and tendency to drop connections, but the T61 worked just fine with it and I never suffered a connection drop and throughput was consistently good.

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CIS thin film solar cell system

CIS thin film solar cell system

863 new materials in the areas of support, Advanced Technology Co., Ltd. and Germany to develop low-cost copper indium sulfide (CIS) thin film solar cells 20kW grid power system has been applied to the central area of the Olympic Park. So far, the world has not been copper indium sulfide thin film solar cells on the grid-scale applications, reported that this is copper indium sulfide 10kW-class solar cell of the first grid demonstration projects.

Copper indium sulfide thin film solar cells with stable performance, low cost, abundant raw materials, production processes short, low energy consumption, environmentally friendly preparation process and other characteristics, is one of the main directions of development of solar cells. Copper indium sulfide material properties, preparation methods and cell structure of extensive research with current copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) material similar to the light absorption, with absorption coefficient is high, easy to select the window materials, structure and other characteristics of the neutral defect, while copper indium sulfide material also has the characteristics of the band gap close to the solar cell material band gap required for the best value, so do not need to add the gallium element to adjust its band gap can be prepared using non-vacuum method, which simplifies the production process to substantially reduce production costs.

Advanced Technology Development Co., Ltd. and German cooperation Preparation of copper indium sulfide battery technology, using non-vacuum technology, continuous roll to roll production methods, more suitable for mass production, cost advantages. Compared with other low-cost solar cells, copper indium sulfide batteries cost the equivalent of 30-40% of polycrystalline silicon solar cells and energy payback period of only 1 year, no preparation process in the production of harmful emissions, no need to create CdTe solar cells large recycling system.

Advanced Technology Co., Ltd. since 2004, developed in partnership with the German Odersun copper indium sulfide solar cell preparation, successful resolution of the scale of production of the key technical problems. The application of the Olympic Park and the copper indium sulfide solar power generation system, located in the center of the entrance to the underground car business is divided into four subsystems, system design capacity of 20kW, the power can be used for underground commercial parking lot lighting .

Currently, copper indium sulfide compound semiconductor solar cell industry is moving toward stage, copper indium sulfide cell conversion efficiency compared with the theoretical conversion efficiency, there is still much room for improvement, addition, through the development of preparation technology industry can be further improve the battery performance and reduce costs.

Sherritt Nickel Project overseas company

According to the Canadian company Sherritt has recently said that at present the company in Cuba and Madagascar nickel project run smoothly, and is developing according to schedule. The two nickel mines are described below:

(1) Cuba's Moa nickel mine, mainly to the Fort Saskatchewan refinery in Canada to provide raw materials. Moa nickel project an expansion project was completed in the second quarter of 2008, nickel production capacity of 4,000 tons / year, total production capacity of 3.7 million tons of nickel mine / year. Second project will be completed in the second quarter of 2009, after the completion of Phase II to increase production capacity of 9,000 tons / year. Fort Saskatchewan smelter expansion project will be completed in the third quarter of 2009. Moa and Fort Saskatchewan Project Phase III expansion project has been approved, with a total investment of about $ 566,000,000, to increase production capacity after the completion of 3000-6000 tons of nickel / year.

(2) Ambatovy nickel project in Madagascar. The project is the ultimate goal is to produce 60,000 tons of nickel and 5600 tonnes of cobalt, the first batch autoclave 5 was the end of June arrived in Madagascar, is currently being installation, and other infrastructure are also being installed in full swing, is expected in 2008 completed in the third quarter.

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Poor quality electric bicycle battery

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With the selling of electric bicycles, electric bicycle related complaints is increasing. It is understood that a branch of Yinchuan City, SD Business Xingqing business by an average week there are three complaints from the electric bike.

According to Liu, deputy director of Industry and Commerce Seiwa Han introduced the main complaints about electric bicycles issues: commitment to the battery fails to reach the manufacturers requirements (specification description does not match with the kind of quality), this complaint accounts for almost half of the complaints. Followed by the poor quality of vehicles, driving controller failure; charger, poor quality; some manufacturers use cheap components as major components of electric vehicles. Business sector to remind consumers to buy electric bicycles should pay attention to the following: Do not blindly purchase products without the approval of relevant departments of the brand; choose reliable quality, low repair rate and reputable brand; to choose high efficiency, stable performance of the brand battery; Note View manufacture's warranty period and after-sales service commitment, ask for warranty card records and make records of each maintenance order to permit problems to be investigated from time to time.

Brand batteries for electric vehicle sales centers located

Nanjing CASE complaints received under the situation, the battery electric vehicle quality problems accounted for more than 70% of complaints. In order to purify the Nanjing market, standardize services, fight against counterfeit and shoddy goods, six large well-known professional electric car battery factory in Nanjing designated Ka-speed car industry, car industry, further Kyrgyzstan, and Thailand together the 6 car industry in setting up a battery cart business center for sale. According to reports, sales center for battery Panasonic battery brands, Zhen Long Battery, St. Joseph battery, an electric battery, lithium-Star constant electricity, Air Hong battery brands, these brands are not only factory direct, cost-effective, and consumers can enjoy to a unified standard of service, eliminate fake and shoddy products. For sale in the center of Nanjing on the market now is basically all of the electric car can be assigned to the appropriate battery.

Ireland issued a warning in the domestic power switch

July 14, Ireland Consumer Affairs Department under the EU Early Warning Bulletin of the Chinese-made goods warning issued NOVEDADESLEIVA power switch. Production of these products in Ningbo, China, through Spain into the EU market. The warning numbered 06297/08, the reasons for the leakage and flammability warning.

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