Toyota is promising two new hybrid vehicles and the start of lithium-ion battery production next year.
The two hybrids–one badged a Toyota, the other a Lexus–will debut at the Detroit auto show and come on top of the third-generation Prius car, also due in 2009.
Toyota didn’t give further details about the upcoming vehicles. But [...]
BYD, China’s biggest battery maker, isn’t wasting any time carving its niche in the new world of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. It all started with the F6DM plug-in hybrid sedan, followed by the smaller and less expensive F3DM plug-in hybrid compact car.
Now BYD has introduced its E6 electric car at the Beijing International [...]
That’s cool. The project is headed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC). Initiated in 2006, the project is estimated to cost US$22 billion and take some eight years to build, with the first phase scheduled to be complete and habitable in 2009. That’s pretty soon.
The city will cover 6 square kilometres (2.3 [...]
IBM came out with this super discovery. They focus the sun over 2300x onto a silicon photovoltaic panel and they were able to pull 70 watts of it !!! It’s amazing. I mean, this could really change the bussiness.
The trick lies in IBM’s ability to cool the tiny solar cell. Concentrating the equivalent [...]
I can’t wait till at the Reunion Island we gonna have this Solar system in our willage !!!.
Donggwang is on the western half of Jeju-do, the largest of South Korea’s semi-tropical southern islands. Near the village, Halla Mountain, a volcano and the tallest mountain in South Korea, rises from the [...]
An English company, IDC, has announced plans to mass-produce an inflatable solar panel and make it commercially available for less than 100 pounds ($200) , a great leap forward in making green energy available to the masses.
Capable of heating up to 3 full tanks of water, IDC envisions the panels being used [...]
The car has a range only about 80km but is quite cute. You can download a brochure in PDF. Two adults and two chilldren can be trasported. REVA is currently being exported to UK and Malta. 80% charge in 2.5 hrs; 100% charge in 8 hrs.
Reva has been selling [...]
Why not? Is it that Americans wouldn’t buy such a vehicle, or is it that automakers would simply prefer to sell more profitable gas-guzzlers, rather than less-profitable small cars, to Americans?
iQ represents a break-through in compact urban transportation. For a first, up to three passengers can be comfortably seated in a compact urban [...]
There is a big demand on wind turbines at the moment so the manufacturers can’t build enough turbines to fill orders, and waiting lists are already years long. So something’s going right in Wind. But the CEO of FloDesign Wind, Stanely Kowalski thinks things could be going even better. Using FloDesign’s expertise in aircraft engines, [...]
HP greens the bottom line
Overshadowed by Google’s jump
into the renewable energy business on Tuesday was Hewlett-Packard’s more modest move to go green by installing a 1-megawatt solar array at its San Diego facility, buying wind power for its Ireland operations and subsidizing employees’ home solar systems.
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