Fisker Automotive Blames Battery Maker A123 for Failure
With the recent news that Fisker Automotive is looking at bankruptcy, the next obvious step, aside from selling off assets, is to figure out who is to blame. Fisker Automotive and A123 Systems could be inextricably linked in the minds of investors and politicians, seeing as A123 was the sole supplier of advanced lithium-ion battery [...]
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Better Place, the Israel-based company that we’ve been talking about lately and that proposes battery swapping instead of charging, has seemingly found a savior in the person of Yosef Abramowitz, aka “Captain Sunshine.” Abramowitz, known for building Israel’s first commercial solar field two years ago, wants to purchase Better Place’s assets and start over… this [...] Read more... | Experts from leading scientific institutes in Japan and Britain claim that severity of floods on some of the major rivers in south-east Asia, Africa and South America will increase dramatically. The Danube, the Mississippi, and the Euphrates will become drier as the effects of climate change become more pronounced. The study published in the latest [...] Read more... |
Students from Brigham Young University (BYU) designed a car which can travel almost 1,700 miles on as little as one gallon of fuel. The super-vehicle took part in the SAE Supermileage Competition last weekend (6-7th June, 2013) in Michigan. As part of the competition requirements, the students had to maximize the fuel efficiency of a [...] Read more... | The US Military is heavily involved in technology to assure US independence, which includes biofuels and other alternatives. The thing is, if any one country has a hold on a key commodity, such as fuel, then all they need to do to maintain control, even of a country more powerful, is to restrict fuel supplies. [...] Read more... |
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Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), responsible for monitoring Iran‘s nuclear power programme, have reported damages to the nuclear power reactor in Bushehr caused by recent earthquakes. Doubts about the safety of the Iranian nuclear power plant persist, despite the reassurance of the officials that no damages are found. The neighbouring countries, especially [...] Read more... | The demand for electrified vehicles, including hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and pure electric vehicles, has been slacking for the last few months. Past the end-of-the-year rush to take advantage of federal and state plug-in vehicle incentives, and add to this the fairly stable price of fuel, it’s the perfect recipe for stagnant hybrid vehicle sales. [...] Read more... |
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