CP-Autosport, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Fraunhofer IPA & IISB.

New taxi for China: German CP-Autosport has developed an electric taxi for London-based Innovative Dragon. A prototype was now presented. The “ID-Taxi” has a range of 400 km, a chassis made from carbon, gull-wing doors and much space for the passenger. Serial production is planned to kick off in China, where the taxi could launch in three years’ time.
nw.de (in German), youtube.com (video presentation)

Solar to space: Aerojet Rocketdyne has won a 67m dollar contract from NASA to develop a solar-powered electric drivetrain for space exploration missions. In 36 months, the former is to develop an Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) that is 10 times more efficient than current chemical propulsion systems, which could also be used for the space agency’s mission to Mars.
theverge.com, nasaspaceflight.com

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Longer lifecycle with buffer storage: As part of the SkiPper project, researchers at the Fraunhofer IPA have developed a buffer storage system to ease stress on batteries. The supercapacitor storage technology is based on nano carbon fibre, and can absorb peak performance and therefore prolong battery life significantly.
ipa.fraunhofer.de (in German)

Open source battery management: Their colleagues at the Fraunhofer IISB meanwhile looked at hard- and software for flexible battery management systems. The result is the foxBMS that will be presented at the battery conference “Batterietagung 2016” in Muenster, Germany, next week. The software source code and hardware schematics will be available for download by the end of the year.
idw-online.de

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