{"id":134816,"date":"2024-10-23T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/this-french-start-up-can-turn-your-petrol-car-into-an-electric-hybrid-in-a-day\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T07:25:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T04:25:36","slug":"this-french-start-up-can-turn-your-petrol-car-into-an-electric-hybrid-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/this-french-start-up-can-turn-your-petrol-car-into-an-electric-hybrid-in-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"This French start-up can turn your petrol car into an electric hybrid in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134816\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The company&#8217;s kit can convert old petrol cars into electric hybrids in just one day. But experts say retrofitting old cars isn&#8217;t the catch-all solution. A French company is working on a new retrofit kit that can convert your old vehicle into a hybrid electric one in just a day.<\/p>\n<p>Workers with Solution F, a subsidiary automotive company of Green Corp Konnection (GCK), a group of companies who say they are leading the French green energy transition, displayed their project at the Paris Motor Show last week. The Twin-E kit allows cars to run up to 50 km\/h in &#8220;full electric mode&#8221; then switches to a hybrid power if it goes over that speed.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, the company installs a 48V electric engine along with a planetary gearset, which replaces the car\u2019s old manual gearbox. Then, a rechargeable battery is added to the floor in the boot of the car. A small electric motor is also installed next to the original internal combustion engine (ICE), which uses battery power to run the car when in full electric mode.<\/p>\n<p>The French government defines retrofitting a car as converting its thermal engine, either petrol or diesel, into an electric one to give it a second life. &#8220;[Retrofitting]&#8230; constitutes a complementary offer to new electric vehicles, the purchase price of which still remains high for a large part of the population,&#8221; the French government wrote on its website. The Twin-E kit is not available yet, but GCK program director Eric Planchais said it should be ready by mid-2025 and it should cost roughly \u20ac8,500, or \u20ac4,000 if covered by a French government subsidy. The average price of an electric vehicle in Europe sat at just under \u20ac46,000, according to the European Alternative Fuels Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>France legalised these electric retrofits in April 2020, starting a race between GCK and other European companies to meet the market. Renault Group, one of France\u2019s biggest auto manufacturers, announced a partnership with Tolv, a retrofitting expert in France, to convert over a thousand Renault Master vans in 2024 and 2025. Rev Mobilities, another start-up in Paris, reequips vintage cars like a 1957 Fiat 500 with electric parts.<\/p>\n<p>The retrofit splurge is also happening in the wake of EU legislation passed in 2023 that is looking to make electric vehicles account for about 80 percent of all new sedan and SUV sales by 2030, and 100 percent by 2035 to meet climate targets. Not all automotive experts are convinced that retrofitting is the solution to meet the EU\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/10\/22\/this-french-start-up-can-turn-your-petrol-car-into-an-electric-hybrid-in-a-day\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/10\/22\/this-french-start-up-can-turn-your-petrol-car-into-an-electric-hybrid-in-a-day\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/this-french-start-up-can-turn-your-petrol-car-into-an-electric-hybrid-in-a-day\/\">This French start-up can turn your petrol car into an electric hybrid in a day<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,16602,16603],"class_list":["post-134816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-electric-hybrid","tag-petrol-car"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}