New Electronic Circuit Cooling System Offers Brighter Electric Car Perspectives
Researchers from Purdue University discovered precisely how fluid boils in capilary cooling sytems, and that by designing a system by using those rules they got a much more efficient heat transfer between the object to be cooled and the liquid.
Spain Transforms Phone Booths into EV Charging Stations
One of the major cities in Europe, Madrid, has found an innovative solution to give a new meaning and usage to the phone booths.
ETV Motors to Launch Jet Turbine-Based Prius with Higher MPG
Israeli start-up ETV Motors, located in Tel Aviv has invested about $12 million in this technology that combines a car, electricity and a jet engine. The prototype of a modified Prius will be ready next year for testing.
In My Prius: Funny Hip-Hop Video About Toyota's Car
It's time for some fun once in a while on The Green Optimistic. I wish I could do that a habit and, once a week, present some funny environmentally-related video. If there are lots of them, I'll even make a category.
Toyota Preparing to Launch a Cheap Hybrid Vehicle
Toyota has announced that plans to develop a cheaper hybrid vehicle, a competitor for the Insight model which just entered the U.S. market. Toyota officials have revealed that their hybrid will be developed on the current Yaris platform.
Dutch e-Traction Hybrid Bus Has In-Wheel Electric Motors
The diesel charges a battery, and the battery propels the bus for as long as fuel exists in the tank. A dutch company, called e-Traction has developed a new type of hybrid bus. It has the same working principle, but the difference is that the electric motors are embedded in the wheels.
Toyota MR2 Coming Back With Style and a Hybrid Engine
For almost two years, Toyota went quiet about their FT-HS Concept car which was first presented at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. All actions were stopped until now, when the need of a new car on the market has increased. FT-HS has a 3.5 litre V6 hybrid engine, and is an environmentally-friendlier sports car.
Namir: The World's Fastest Hybrid Car
A few days ago, the Geneva Motor Show was the event where we could see the hybrid that can travel 187 mph (almost 301 km/hour), or 2,000 km without recharging or refilling.
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.
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.
