When on the road the battery of your phone, mp3 player, or your Iphone goes soon flat. But, you know that there are solutions. Just 1 hour of sunshine = 20 minutes talk time or [...]

Another electric car will also be tested in the United States in autumn 2008: Mitsubishi MiEV (Mitsubishi Innovative Electric Vehicle) with lithium-ion batteries (16 kWh) and an electric motor (47 kW). Tetsuro Aikawa, head of [...]

Concentrated solar power (CSP) panels use two different mirrors to focus about 500 times the energy from the sun before the light is directed onto small high efficient solar cell. This small cell got cheaper than big one…. -:), that’s the idea behind. To use pricey materiel sparignly and gain in overall cost. The vast [...]

Morgan Solar - a company developping more affordable solar panels, has hot a great article in the Star newspaper. Their solar panels are using revolutionary technology with lower cost materials (acrylic). Their Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) systems are highly efficient, easy to build and affordable. Some of their photos on Flick page.
The materials that make up [...]

Air France and KLM engineering (FR) will test MDI’s AirPod vehicles at spring 2009. Those cars are 4 seaters, and they are running on compressed air . They should be availeble in US the beginning 2010.
Some technical details of those cars:

weight only 220 kg
4 places (or luggage space)
lenght 2 meters
Using compresed air stored in a [...]

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU), Tianjin University in China and Chromasun, a Silicon Valley company joined themselvs to make solar energy cheaper and more efficient.
They found a hybrid solar system that uses 80 meters long 2-axis sollector with 80 mirrors. Those mirrors are focusing sunlignt onto high-efficient solar cells mounted on receivers which [...]

There is a new world record !
Marcelo da Luz (canadian) had been able to set a new world record. This Canadian was able to complete 15,000 kilometers in a solar car
He was able to make through the roads of Canada in the fastest way possible. He made that in 140 days.This record was actually held [...]