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Saul to Participate in SAE International Webcast
Andrew Saul, Founder and CEO of Genovation, will participate in SAE International's upcoming Webcast on 9.28.2011. The Webcast, entitled "Global 24/7 Engineering: Tools and Techniques for Better, Faster Vehicle Development," will focus on techniques to get automotive products to market quickly. The abstract of the program is as follows:
As consumer demand for innovation, quality, and appealing design continues to increase, so too does the pressure to reduce cost and get products to market more quickly. Software tools now play an important role in the effort to accelerate product development and enhance collaboration among engineers, designers, and analysts. By enabling collaboration across complex engineering functions and throughout the global supply chain, previous barriers between engineering functions and other disciplines of the product life cycle have been broken and product quality, cost efficiency, and time to market have greatly improved. Panelists in this…
9/26/2011
More on the G2’s Aerodynamics
One of the biggest factors related to automobile efficiency is air resistance. Typically, around 60% of the power required to cruise at highway speeds is used to overcome aerodynamic drag. This percentage increases significantly the faster you go, however low aerodynamic drag will increase energy efficiency at all operating speeds. With this in mind, Genovation placed a large emphasis on streamlining the G2’s shape.
Automotive aerodynamics are also critically important for safety reasons, most notably to eliminate lift and increase downforce to prevent a car from becoming airborne. It is important to study a vehicles aerodynamic stability from many different angles, so that should the car ever spin out, experience turbulence from another vehicle or severe cross winds, it will still not generate any lift. Great care was taken to design the G2 with a healthy amount of downforce and aerodynamic stability.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis…
5/16/2011
Rationale for the Demand for Plug In Vehicles
Currently, Chevy, Nissan, Tesla and Fisker are in the enviable position of selling every plug-in car they make before it even reaches the dealership. Dealerships carry no inventory of plug-in vehicles and many don't even have demo vehicles. There are some Leaf buyers who placed their deposits almost a year ago and are still waiting and the wait for a Chevy Volt or a Tesla is around six months, demonstrating a very high demand-to-supply ratio that currently exists for plug-in vehicles. As Chevy and Nissan crank up production going forward and as new competitors enter the market this ratio will definitely drop but by how much depends on many factors, including the price of oil.
Why is the demand for plug-in cars so high other that the obvious environmental concerns? One reason is their low operating cost. A plug-in can cover around 4 miles per Kilowatt Hour (kWh)…
4/11/2011
Excited for the Unveiling
We're gearing up for the unveiling of the G2 at SAE World Congress on April 12, and couldn't be more excited. We really do feel SAE World Congress is the premier platform for the exhibition and sharing of new technologies relating to the automotive industry, so it wasn't a difficult decision to unveil the G2 at the event. We're also excited to launch this new website - It will give us a platform to share news and information about our progress with the G2, and some of our other special projects.
Feel free to check out the press release about the unveiling here, and don't forget to sign up for our email list so that we can be sure to keep in touch. Also, feel free to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, too.
4/9/2011
Welcome to our new site
Welcome to the new genovationcars.com. As our business is evolving and growing, so must our website. We hope you enjoy the new experience, and take some time to look around. You'll find all kinds of great information, from news and info about our company to information about our newest model, the G2, which we will be debuting at SAE World Congress.
We will also be posting on this blog regularly, so please feel free to interact with us here and on Twitter and Facebook.
Thanks for reading, and stay tuned!
3/31/2011
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