Mitsubishi Proposes Highway Mobile Chargers for Electric Vehicles
The Vehicular Technology Conference, hosted in Ottawa, Canada, next week, will be the place where Zafer Sahinoglu at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues will present an innovation aimed to patch the issues electric cars and their limited battery range have: the mobile battery charger.
BMW Unveils Two New Hybrid Electric Cars and has Green Plans for the Future
Korea will be the country where BMW will introduce its most eco-friendly conventional vehicle, the 320d EfficientDynamics Edition, by the end of next year. The German car maker has officially launched other two new hybrid electric vehicles.
Ford Focus Electric's Battery Will Feature Heating/Cooling Before Charging
Ford wants to implement cooling/heating mechanisms for the batteries they will include in their future Focus Electric. The engineers at Ford designed a thermally conductive liquid that circulates throughout the battery.
BYU's New Electric Streamliner Sets 139 MPH Speed Record
After six years of design and building, a team of student engineers at the Brigham Young University have recently unveiled their new electric streamliner (a special racecar designed for straight-ahead speed).
Kestrel: The Electric Car With Body Made From Cannabis
Now, in the days of the aftermath that the crisis has given the auto industry, a Canadian company wants to build the first electric car that has its body built from bio-composites. Specifically, we're talking about hemp - a relative of Cannabis.
ZERO Race: Electric Vehicles Team Up for 80-Day Trip Around the World
Electric car enthusiasts don't miss a chance to show the world what their beliefs are, and that their vehicles can even take them for a clean ride around the world - the cleanest ride ever.
Want to Ride a Pedal-Powered Electric Vehicle for a Few Bucks? Go To Rome!
I visited Rome last week and went to Villa Borghese just to find that I could too rent one of those pedal-powered vehicles for 10 euros an hour. You can't imagine the excitement and thrill I had - I write about this kind of stuff every day but never got the chance to actually ride something truly electric.
HumanCar: The $15,500 Human/Electric Hybrid Vehicle Accepting Reservations
As it was initially designed, the HumanCar is a 2 to 4 seats vehicle that is powered by moving your body back and forth and not by pedaling. The movement charges a battery than runs an electric motor.
DeLaSalle All-Electric Vehicle to Set a New World Record for Efficiency
A group of engineers at Bridgestone America's Technical Center in Akron, along with students from DeLaSalle School in Kansas City have recently developed a new all-electric car which has been successfully tested on Bridgestone's Texas Proving Grounds.
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.
