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Tata Motors Planning to Launch Two New Electric Vehicles in European Countries
The vehicles will first be launched in the United Kingdom as early as September and then in the Scandinavian nations (Sweden, Norway and Denmark). According to the company, both cars are at an advanced stage of development.
Wax Helps Scientists Reach Theoretical Storage Limit for Lithium Manganese Phosphate Batteries
In the war for efficiency, not only energy harvesters (like solar cells, wind turbines and others) have to win, but they will also have to be accompanied by storage devices, coming from behind. Daiwon Choi, working at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has discovered how paraffin (wax) can improve the battery manufacturing technology by enhancing their electrodes.
Magic Sticker Makes Solar Cells Up to 12 Percent More Powerful
Genie Lens Technologies has developed the easiest solution yet: a sticker that applied to the solar cell, will direct the incoming light onto the light-sensitive surface, greatly reducing reflections and improving the efficiency.
45 Percent of Portugal's Energy Comes from Renewable Sources
Five years ago, Portugal's government promised that by 2010, 45% of the country's energy will come from renewable sources (then, only 17 percent of Portugal's grid came from renewables). Sounds impossible, but it's true.
Meridian and AGL to Build a 420 Megawatt Wind Farm in Victoria
AGL Energy Limited (AGL) in partnership with Meridian Energy plan to build one of the world's largest wind farms that will be able to...
Water-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries Performance Greatly Improved
A team at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, discovered how to improve the performance of water-based lithium-ion batteries by removing oxygen from the power cells. These batteries also have great potential for large-scale applications such as storing the energy from solar panels and wind turbines.
AK1000: World's Most Powerful Tidal Power Turbine Unveiled in Scotland
Atlantis Resources Corporation has unveiled the most powerful and largest tidal turbine ever built, at Invergordon in Scotland. Dubbed AK1000, the new turbine will be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland, later this summer.
EnSol's New Transparent Coating Turns Your Windows Into Solar Cells
Norwegian company EnSol AS in collaboration with researchers at the University of Leicester are working to develop a new type of solar cell material that can be coated as a thin film onto window glass, so that windows in buildings can generate electricity on a large scale.
Renewable Biomass Creates High Energy Fuels at Gasoline Prices
"Cellulose is the biggest source of sugars on the planet. The difficulty is, it's harder to get at that cellulose and get at those sugars than it is to get the sugars from corn kernels," says Mike Cleary, director of the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Nec's New Rapid Charger for EVs Charges Batteries in Just 30 Minutes
The charger has been installed at the headquarters of PGE, located in Portland, Oregon, where these two companies will make a demonstration by charging Nissan's Leaf electric car.
