First American GM Hybrid Sold in the US Cheaper than Prius
Saturn Aura is going to be the first hybrid GM is launching on the US market, as a direct competitor for Toyota Prius. Only in 2006, Toyota sold 107,000 Prius units, creating a big popularity of the hybrid.
DIY: Easily Convert Any Bicycle Into Electric With GreenWheel
MIT engineers have been developing and are now testing an upgrade to the old bicycle that can be easily installed and that can transform your foot-powered 2-wheeler into a full-electric vehicle (or hybrid, if you use your own force).
Tazzari Zero EV: The Electric City Sports Car Beast
Tazzari Group developed a simple but in the same time elegant electric vehicle Tazzari Zero EV. The vehicle wants to qualify as a sports-car for the city, being very light, with high torques and fully recyclable.
Do Africans Plan to Produce Energy by Pulling a Roll After Them?
An african inventor, by his name Cedrick Ngalande, has invented a device called the Green Erg, that could harness the pulling force of a person or moving vehicle, and convert some of it into electricity. Though I don't see his invention any soon on any European or US market, it seems some say that it will have a great success in Africa, there where you have to make electricity out of anything.
Hydraulic Regenerative Braking Saving 52.7% Fuel in BMW 530i
Who said a car has to be electric to be called a "hybrid"? Artemis Intelligent Power has converted a BMW 530i to mechanically capture the energy resulted from braking (aka "regenerative braking"), and use it in an electrically-hybridized car fashion.
Small Methanol Fuel Cells Powering Soldiers’ Equipment
Germans have introduced this week a wearable fuel cell which is based on the award-winning unipolar stack technology design. Called Jenny 600S, the fuel cell delivers 25W for up to 20h. Jenny 600S uses replaceable liquid methanol fuel cartridges and can be worn in a vest.
IBM Helping Denmark Develop Country-Wide Electric Car Network
I was saying the other year that Denmark is powered mostly by its wind farms, and that the energy generated by these wind farms is in excess. They want to build an electric car network that would operate across the country and that would use the excess energy and transport it to propel people from here to there, cheaply and in an environmentally friendly fashion.
Flat Solar Concentrator: Cheap, Durable, 30% Efficient
Nicolas Morgan, the director of a Toronto-based firm, named "Morgan Solar", helped by his brother, John Paul Morgan, has invented a solar concentrator that gives a different approach to solar concentrators, by making them more appealing both as price and as durability/efficiency.
New Metal-Organic Substance Giving Better Hydrogen Tanks
UK researchers from the University of Nottingham and General Motors from Warren, Michigan, have invented a hydrogen tank material that could replace the current heavy and inefficient pressurized tubes used in today's hydrogen-powered cars.
Cheaper Hydrogen Obtained with Stainless-Steel Brush Cathode
Scientists seem to have found a way to obtain hydrogen from organic matter without the us of the expensive platinum metal. They developed a stainless-steel brush that can help in the microbial electrolysis process reducing the costs in this way up to 80 %.
