By John on August 23, 2009
It appears that every automaker in the world has caught electric car fever, save one: Toyota, the one best known for green cars.
While General Motors and Nissan will both introduce plug-in cars next year, and Ford will follow in 2011, Toyota does not plan to bring an all-electric car to market until 2012. Yesterday, The [...]
Posted in Electric Cars | Tagged chevy volt, clean energy, electric cars, electric vehicles, Hybrid Cars, Toyota FT-EV
By John on May 25, 2009
Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have, together with Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz, developed a hydrogen powered municipal street cleaning vehicle which was presented to the public on 14th May 2009 in Basel. The vehicle is named the “Bucher CityCat H2″ and is the first municipal utility vehicle [...]
Posted in Gas | Tagged clean energy, empa, fuel cell technology, fuel cells, hydrogen technology, paul scherrer institute
By John on April 23, 2009
Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have succeeded in unlocking the potential of carbon dioxide – a common greenhouse gas – by converting it into a more useful product. Using organocatalysts, the IBN researchers activated carbon dioxide in a mild and non-toxic process to produce methanol, a widely used industrial feedstock and [...]
Posted in Liquid Biofuel | Tagged biofuel, carbon dioxide reduction, clean energy, excess carbon dioxide, Methanol
By John on March 28, 2009
Tesla Motors, run by PayPal founder Elon Musk, and backed by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, is now taking orders for what it says will be the world’s first mass-produced, highway-ready electric sedan.
Electric cars have several advantages over petrol, and some that you might not expect.
They develop maximum torque instantly, meaning a keenly [...]
Posted in Electric Cars | Tagged batteries, clean energy, electric cars, electric vehcles, feature, MIT, Tesla Motors
By Alternative Energy News on February 25, 2009
With its windy coasts, untapped rivers and huge tidal and wave resources, Alaska can quickly become a national leader in producing alternative energy. Although Alaska is the second-largest oil producing state in the country, the citizens have had to pay very high electricity bills recently; oil is no longer easily available for producing and generating [...]
Posted in Wind | Tagged alternative energy sources, alternative fuels, clean energy, renewable sources, toksook bay, turbines, wave resources
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