EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS AIM TO WIELD NANOTECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE ELECTRONIC CARS
November 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MAJOR European research project will spend Euro 44 million developing tiny components to help electric vehicles improve their performance and compete with liquid fuel models. The Fiat and Audi-backed E3CAR (Energy efficient electrical car) project will especially focus on emerging nanotechnologies to improve "semiconductor technologies, devices, circuits and sub-systems" increasing energy efficiency by 35%, boosting power and battery life. Companies involved also include Germany's Infineon Technologies (the project coordinator); ...
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