REViving Relief
The NXR may be conventional for mainstream car users in its overall turnout but radical in terms of what gets it going. The key to the car's acceptability is the electronic wizardry that controls the way the power is transmitted, regenerated and also exactingly used. The NXR has been configured to work with both lead-acid batteries (for India and other developing markets) as well as the more powerful yet lighter but more expensive lithium ion batteries. However, what Reva has done is make their controller battery neutral and then taken it further to give it an edge over other electric cars.
The key to this is to be found in the REVive technology patented by the firm. This technology helps give users enough charge to limp home should the batteries run out of juice. Reva's tech has plotted out an all new interface which needs just an SMS from the driver to tell them about their vehicle not having enough grunt to get home or to the nearest charging point. From the moment the SMS is received, the Reva boffins communicate with the car, wirelessly free up energy stored in various pockets in the drive system and help get the vehicle home for recharging. One has today heard about wirelessly transmitting electricity (yes it is true this phenomenon but on a very tiny scale) but this REVive tech is mostly algorithms which liberate ions and get the battery to reboot enough to get the car home.
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