Even if most of the likely candidates to replace our current batteries still require years of testing and legal approvals to make it into our cars or phones, whoever wins that race, however, will have made one of the breakthroughs of the century. Let’s have a look at the alternative solutions that scientists are working...Continue Reading
Until its scientific rediscovery in 2007 at TU Graz, the “water bridge” phenomenon, discovered in the 19th century, had sank into oblivion. If extremely pure water, in other words water that has been distilled many times, is placed in two beakers and subject to a high voltage, the fluid moves up the side of each...Continue Reading
Our homes and cars are the two things in day-to-day life that consume the most power, but they don’t really mesh together very well in that respect. A project from the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory offers a vision of a more integrated future with Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AIME). It consists...Continue Reading
New hybrid black cab will hit London roads in 2017, a year before all taxis are required to be capable of ‘zero emissions’ motoring. London’s iconic black cabs have received a green makeover with the launch of the latest battery-powered TX5 model, unveiled during Chinese premier Xi Jinping’s state visit to the city of London in...Continue Reading
1. A solar car is an electric vehicle, powered directly by solar energy, using Photovoltaic (PV) cells. They convert the solar energy directly into electricity. 2. Solar electric car can also move at night because during the day the batteries conserve solar energy.Continue Reading
In our wildest dreams, enviro-geeks imagine a future in which solar hover cars zip silently by while our homes and factories chug along completely pollutant-free, powered only by the wind and the sun.Continue Reading
Jaguar Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) division does not only build high-performance or one-off models. Its latest creation, the Range Rover Sentinel, is the first armored Land Rover to be fully engineered by SVO.Continue Reading
By Reuters | 9 Sep, 2015, 11.33AM IST TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp plans to sell a new version of its Prius petrol-electric hybrid from the end of 2015 in Japan and in other regions thereafter, at a time when tumbling gasoline prices are sapping demand for environment-friendlier cars.The new Prius will run on smaller, lighter...Continue Reading
Battery Storage Will Be As Common As Broadband In 10 Years, Says Simon Hackett Originally published on RenewEconomy. IT guru Simon Hackett must be the number 1 fan of Tesla electric vehicles in Australia. He took delivery of the first Tesla Roadster in Australia in 2009, and now he drives the last Roadster delivered here.Continue Reading
A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to move the vehicle for example a conventional internal combustion engine and also a high voltage electric motor. The term most commonly refers to hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), which combine an internal combustion engine and one or more electric motors.Continue Reading
