This product is called LifePorts. It’s been developed by Envision Solar LifeSystems. What is it? They are the first fully integrated, system-built photovoltaic solar port for residential use They’re designed to be both sun shades for you or your car, and an easy way to generate renewable energy. The ports are in development for both [...]

Tata Motors has turned to its Indica platform for the development of its electric car. According to industry sources, the company is currently working on five prototypes of electric vehicles.
“These will use lithium ion batteries for high energy and power density,”

The electric car would have an approximate range of 200 kilometres.

At Tata Motors’ annual general [...]

Several months back Sharp, the biggest maker of solar panels in the world, has invested 72 billion Yen (~$725 million) into a plant that will make thin film solar cells in Sakai, in the Osaka prefecture. The production will start in March of 2010, with an initial annual capacity of 480 megawatts, bringing Sharp’s total [...]

The electric cars that Nissan Motor plans to start selling by 2010 will have varying capabilities depending on a given country’s driving patterns, but all will be priced competitively and will generate profits.
To help in its development of electric cars, Nissan said Tuesday that it would work with the state of Tennessee and its largest [...]

The inflatable solar collectors contain inflated mirror concentrators which gather sunlight and focus it onto photovoltaic cells. They can withstand 100mph wind and rain, insects, dirt and more.

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The average efficiency of regular solar panels is 15 percent; thin-film solar cells register a lower efficiency percentage than that. Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), however, claims 17.7 percent efficiency for its flexible thin-film CIGS solar cell. To be able to achieve that impressive percentage, AIST devised CIGS technology called [...]

Solar panels developped by construction company that use peel-and-stick technology to attach to roofs. The company is called Lumeta, a subsidiary of DRI. Just watch the video. The roof is done in minuts…. Incredible……

“Solar needs to become part of the building envelope and this is a step towards that,” said Stephen Torres, COO of Lumeta. [...]

Today I’d like to present you a company which is going to colaborate with Nissan. The company’s name is ICP Solar. The new cars from Nisan will feature new solar chargers from ICP Solar. The chargers
will serve to keep the 12-volt batteries of new Nissans charged while they are parked on sales lots.
“With the [...]

The German minister for the environment Sigmar Gabriel now no longer plans to increase the share of bio energy in the fuel market to 17% by 2020 as originally planned but only to 12%. In return, the share of wind energy in the electricity supply is to be increased from the up to present planned [...]

A Japanese newspaper reported recently that Toyota is going to be adding a solar powered Prius to the world’s most popular hybrid. Now don’t go getting too excited just yet - solar panels aren’t yet at a place where they can provide all the power your vehicle needs. Rather, they’ll be providing power for the [...]