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 50 minutes of MP3 music.
Works with multiple gadgets, including mobile phones, iPhone™, Bluetooth® headsets, smartphones/PDAs, MP3 players, portable gaming devices, [...]
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Mitsubishi MiEV - high efficient electric vehicle
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 product development Mitsubishi, who disclosed this information in the Salon of New York in 2008. The Mitsubishi MiEV is presented [...]
Morgan Solar in the press
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 [...]
MDI together for testing AirPods with Air France KLM
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 [...]
Efficient solar power from Australian, Chinese and Silicon Walley
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 [...]
Solar car breaks record in CANADA
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 [...]
Solar Concentrated - new photos from Morgansolar
MorganSolar published yesterday on their blog new photos showing their new hot technology called LSO ( Light-guide Solar Optic ). I already wrote an article about this amazing revolutionary technology here. Basically what is does, it concentrates the solar energy to the edge of the cell where there is a PV receiver to convert the [...]
23% of efficiency
Abengoa Solar in Seville had installed a solar panels of Concentrix Solar. Those panels are 23 % efficient.
The 23% or better AC efficiency reflects the actual electricity fed into the grid after sunlight is first converted into DC (Direct Current) by the photovoltaic modules and then into AC by the inverter under actual field conditions.
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MDI prepares new Air cars for spring 2009
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 [...]
Chevrolet Volt at Paris Motor show pictures
I bring in some pictures from Paris Motor Show. The Chevrolet Volt - Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle - is exposed there.
The Volt is an electric vehicle that recharges its lithium ion batteries from an AC outlet or an onboard gas engine. The production version looks very different from the concept car that was shown in [...]
- Efficient Solar chargers availables
- Mitsubishi MiEV - high efficient electric vehicle
- 25 percent efficient Concentrated solar power panels
- Morgan Solar in the press
- MDI together for testing AirPods with Air France KLM
- Efficient solar power from Australian, Chinese and Silicon Walley
- Solar car breaks record in CANADA
- Solar Concentrated - new photos from Morgansolar
- 23% of efficiency
- Kyocera solar pannels are good value






















