
News:
28th June 2010: Turbo Electric Hired by BBC
Turbo Electric have signed a contract to work with
BBC Research and Development to work on the
Ingex Project. While not strictly about electric cars, this will provide £45,000 prototyping funding and the Ingex project is currently being tested in the studio of the BBC program Dragon's Den (which may open up it's own doors!)
18th May 2010: Graham North to speak at London Transport Museum
The
London Transport Museum have contacted Turbo Electric Ltd to ask for Graham North to speak at a breakfast event in October. Turbo Electric will have a prototype available for viewing in London. More details available as they are finalised.
32rd Mar 2010: Next stage for Mass-EV patents
The first
2 Mass-EV patents will be published within a month. These are the "Brushless DC Motor without Permanent Magnets" (GB1001919.8) and "Brushless Motor Resonant Controller" (GB0904679.8). A third is also expect to move to the publishing stage some time this week.
4th Mar 2010: In the news again!
The Mass-EV Project appeared again in
The Reading Chronicle again. The piece tells of the 3 patents and how I'm using a milk float to prove the range and speed of the powertrain. I wil add the piece as soon as it's available online.
3th Mar 2010: International engineering company involved
Turbo Electric is currently talking to
Goodrich about the application of two
Mass-EV patents "Brushless DC Motor without Permanent Magnets" (GB1001919.8) and "Decoupled Gas Turbine Generator" (GB1001921.4).
11th Feb 2010: Green Party Conference
After speaking to Adrian Windisch (Reading Green Party candidate) Turbo Electric Ltd will be at the
Green Party Spring Conference 2010 on 18th to 21st February. Turbo Electric is looking to work with green organisations including the Green Party in the design of the car.
Older news..
8th Feb 2010: Website tidy
The website has had some minor improvements to make it more pleasing. Some overhaul of the underlying code was also cleared up to fix some issues with new browsers.
5th Feb 2010: 2 more patents
Today Turbo Electric Ltd filed
2 more patents relating to the Mass-EV.
That makes
3 in total: "Brushless Motor Resonating Controller" patent (filed 19th March 2009), "Brushless Motor without Permanent Magnets" and "Decoupled Turbine Generator" (filed today).
28th Jan 2010: Going full time
Graham North now goes full-time on the
Mass-EV project.
Previously, He was in other contracts and only part-time on Mass-EV.
More achievements are available on the
project page
Need a cheap (£7,000) viable electric car?
100 mile range and motorway speeds in a family car?
Think it can't be done?
Read on.
Have a look around the car and see the technology in the
virtual showcase
See the
patent motor, controller and hybrid technology which makes the Mass-EV unique.
See animations of the car and the technology in the
virtual showcase.
Total profit after 5 years nearly £47 million with an initial investment of £1,110,000.
Mass-EV Project Plan
Also: see on the
forum how a
Toyota Prius really works in detail with pictures.
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