Category Archives: Wouter Peeters

The breakthrough of electric cars definitely  not only depends on the technology issues. The purchase of an electric car is more expensive, in spite of the fact that your driving cost is a multiple times less than a combustion car. … Continue reading →

Electric car manufacturer Tesla has plans to open their first showroom in Belgium, probably Brussels. It’s probably because of the launch of their new ‘model S’. Tesla already sold 4.500 Models S cars! Isn’t she a beauty? For the first … Continue reading →

Ever thought about the efficiency of the combustion cars we are driving in these days? Let’s show a graph.. The first part of this Sankey diagram looks quite interesting: The power available drops from 100% to 18.2%?! We just trash … Continue reading →

The rising implementation of renewable energy in the electricity grid gives rises to a lot of problems. Ever thought about the fact that solar panels are producing during the day, when there is a lot of sunshine… But we are … Continue reading →

“Michelin and Siemens have teamed up to launch a project aimed at showing that the total cost of electric cars can actually be lower than a combustion engine car.” It really makes me happy when I see that such big … Continue reading →

I was reading in a very interesting magazine, called ‘Electric & Hybrid’. You can get this for free! I found an interesting discussion in the last edition of this magazine written by Greg Offer, which is a research fellow at Imperial … Continue reading →

Dear readers, I want to broaden the purpose of my blog and look more general to ‘electric vehicles’. Recently an article appeared about the rising problem of the high tax burden. This has mostly negative consequences but in this article … Continue reading →

The design of ‘launch control’ is in the context of my thesis meant for a maximal acceleration traction of the race car relative to the road. It requires a lot of information which describes the tire-road interaction. Although the control … Continue reading →

Hello Colleagues, I think it is not bad that everyone writes a small introductory text about his thesis topic. This can serve as a first blogpost opener! My thesis handles about longitudonal control of an electric vehicle. The purpose is … Continue reading →