Shanghai to Triple the Number of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations by End of 2015

Build Charging Stations and Electric Vehicles Will Come to Shanghai

By 2015, the city of Shanghai, China, expects to have some 10,000 “green cars” on the road, by which I’m guessing they’re referring to...

Oil and Gas Companies Hit Hard by Obama’s 2015 Budget Proposal

Just a couple of days after the advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice released a report showing how profitable oil and gas companies receive...
Tesla Gigafactory Possible Locations

Tesla Gigafactory Won’t be Built in California

This may come as a shock, but Tesla Motors, based in Fremont, California, has decided that it won't be building the Tesla Gigafactory in...
Incentives Boost Nissan Leaf Sales in Texas

Nissan Leaf Sales Triple in Texas

The rebirth of the electric vehicle, led by the Tesla Model S and the Nissan Leaf, has seen electric vehicle sales numbers in the...

Bees Use Plastic Bags From Landfills to Build Honeycombs

Just because we do not know how to handle the piles of plastics that we dump carelessly in landfills, it does not mean that...
Fisker Automotive - Reinvented?

Wanxiang Group Reinventing Fisker Automotive

Fisker Automotive doesn't exactly have a long history, being founded just seven years ago, but it surely has been a rough history. Multiple problems beset...

Privatization of Water Supplies Might Limit Fundamental Human Rights

For many of us, availability of clean fresh water is a given. It is quite often difficult to comprehend how it could this ever...
Chevron Get Off on Technicality

Perversion of Justice – Chevron vs Ecuador

After decades of contamination, caused by Texaco (later bought by Chevron) extracting petroleum from beneath Ecuador's rain forests, a judge in Ecuador rules against...

China Combats Air Pollution by Building World’s Largest Smog-Research Facility

The news about the thick and highly toxic smog that remained over large part of China for a week and put millions of lives...
Flow-Cell Battery, the Future of Electric Vehicles?

QUANT e-Sportlimousine Concept Features Redox Flow-Cell Battery

Another advance is coming in electric vehicles, as exemplified in the QUANT e-Sportlimousine Concept, powered by a flow-cell battery system. The redox flow-cell battery, developed...