MDI is going to sell their air powered cars in the US at the beginning 2010 as I wrote in one of my artisles in the past.
This time they came with slightly different concept. The urban city car of the future is called AirPod. What’s so weird about this car? This car is powered by [...]

The Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit (ITC for short) has passed and as well, it’s been renewed until 2016. Also, they increased the caps on how much you can claim for the credit.
$2,500-$7,500 tax credit for people who buy plug-in electric vehicles. (That should make General Motors (GM) happy as it prepares to roll out [...]

Some videos of Chevrolet Volt. Enjoy

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LiFePO4 was identified as a cathode material for rechargeable lithium batteries by John Goodenough’s research group at the University of Texas in 1997. Because of its low cost, non-toxicity, the high abundance of iron, its excellent thermal stability, safety characteristics, good electrochemical per­formance, and high specific capacity (170 mA·h/g) it has gained some acceptance.

In electric [...]

The Prius plug-in version is in UK for testing performance. Toyota will be testing the batteries and the charging points. There is about 40 charging points installed by EDF, the Energy company (Electricite de France).
It is possible to recharge the car batteries from any domestic socket. The car is still hybrid model, and you will [...]

In the next few years the prices of silicon should fall up to 67 percent….
This information is based on confidential data from 10 industry insiders. Ths source - New Energy Finance - predicts that silicon prices could fall 67 percent by 2013, while wafer prices could drop 41 percent.
The wafers are expected to retain their [...]

I found this arbicle about the USB key made out of corn….. Enjoy..
This is latest drive from Hong Kong-based. Hoshino also takes a decidedly different approach than other drives that simply keep the hazardous chemicals and whatnot to a minimum, with it actually constructed out of polylactide (or PLA) made from corn that is, technically, [...]

I came to this article about the Sunflower’s Fresnel lens . Those lens concentrates sunlight more than 1,000 times, enabling cheaper electricity than traditional photovoltaics. The system is self-powered.
Technical specifications:

200-watt system
features trackers that shift with the sun’s location, as well as a controller and communications system.
The low-slung Sunflower is built to withstand winds, and it [...]

Tesla Roadster is making us dreaming. There was others cars before, and there will be others after, but this one is the most spectacular. Well finished, the best one I ever saw. We all love it. But. Since the price in US is about 100 000 $, so with the simple calculation we could convert [...]

BMW is now committing to testing completely electric vehicles, but not quite ready to take the plunge to actually market them. As for hybrid cars that use a traditional gasoline engine combined with an electric motor, they should arrive “at the end of next year,” a company spokesperson for BWM was quoted as saying.
“This step [...]