日本電動車新發展

Recently Asahi News reported the following:　

電気自動車（ＥＶ）の普及をめざす市民団体、日本ＥＶクラブ（東京）が、途中充電せずにＥＶで１００３．１８４キロを走った。２３日、茨城県下妻市の筑波サーキットに併設されている周回コースで約２７時間半かけ達成、同クラブが昨秋に東京―大阪間（５５５．６キロ）を無充電走行して打ち立てた世界記録を大幅に更新した。記録はギネスブックに申請する。

　ダイハツ工業の軽自動車ミラバンを同クラブが改造した「ミラＥＶ」で、三洋電機製の円筒形リチウムイオン電池８３２０本を積んでいる。消費電力は発進や停止を繰り返すと多くなるため今回は信号や渋滞がある公道を避けた。 ２２日午前１１時にスタートし、同クラブの会員ら１７人が１時間交代で１周６８９メートルのコースを時速４０キロで走行。途中、電圧変換機が故障し約３０分中断したが、２３日午前２時ごろ公道での記録を更新し、同日午後２時２６分、１４５６周したところでゴールとなり、新記録を達成した。 同クラブ代表で最終ドライバーを務めた舘内端（たてうち・ただし）さん（６３）は「ガソリン車と比べ走行距離が短いと言われるＥＶでも、やればできると夢と希望を与えられた」と話した。

An electric vehicle (EV) had traveled 1003.184 kilos and while traveling there was no need for the Japanese EV Club (Tokyo), a civic group that aimed at the promotion of EV to re-charge it. On the 23rd, spending about 27 and a half hours in circling in a course established as an annex of the Tsukuba Circuit in Ibaraki prefecture, the world record set last autumn achieved by the same club of going from Osaka to Tokyo (555.6 kilos) without charging was broken and updated. The record was making application to the Guinness Book.

8320 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries made by SANYO Electric were piled up on "Mira EV" which this club had remodeled from the light weight car Miraban of DAIHATSU MOTOR. Because repeated start and stop would increase power consumption, this time it avoided the public road which had signals and congestion.It started at 11:00 am of the 22nd, 17 people all members of this club at one-hour shift, went around the course of 689 meters at a speed of 40 kilos per hour. Although during the trip the voltage conversion machine broke down and caused interruption for about 30 minutes, a new record in the public road was updated at around 2:00 am on the 23rd, and on the same day at 2.26 pm and it did 1456 times around the course, it achieved a new high record. Tateuchi Tadashi (63) as the final driver and representative of this club said "Although it can be said that for EV the mileage is short when compared with gasoline cars, it gives dream and hope if we give it a try".

An experimental electric vehicle can travel over 1000 km without the need for re-charging is an exciting record.