Arab Oil Company Acquires 4% of Tesla Motors
I don't want to cross the decent border of believing in a conspiracy theory, but when the oil business is threatened these days, it's normal that oil magnates wouldn't sit back and watch electric cars and alternative energy providers take their piece of meat from right in front of them.
SunCatcher's Stirling-Engine Based Solar Concentrators to Start in 2010
Tessera Solar and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) have unveiled new designs of their SunCatcher system at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF).
Sahimo: Hydrogen Powered Car Consuming 1L/568 km!
Something truly amazing comes from Turkey: some students from Sakarya University just released a prototype of what seems to be a car - but...
Dean Kamen's Stirling Engine Hybrid Scooter Runs on Anything
The inventor of Segway (you know, those 2-wheeled self-balancing personal transporters you see in touristic cities - I saw one in Rome) is now specializing in Stirling engines - the grandfather of the steam engine and more efficient than current gasoline engines.
Solar-Powered Electric "Bluecar" from Pininfarina
From Spring 2009, French battery/supercapacitor manufacturer Bolloré and Italian car designer Pininfarina have finally reached the production line with their five-door hatchback electric Bluecar, and have started accepting online orders for it.
Future Th!nk Electric Car Will Feature Specially Designed Gearbox
Th!nk, the electric car from Norway, has started a relationship with Oerlikon Graziano, who makes gearboxes. So, they designed a special gearbox, the only one at this time made specially for electric vehicles. With this gearbox, th!nk wil have the most efficient transmission system, would not waste energy on useless rpm, and run quietly.
Automatic Electric Car Battery Swapping System by Better Place
I was talking in an earlier article about the possibility of electric car battery swapping systems installed on the roads, instead of gas stations. Mercedes did some testing back in the 70's, and concluded that a battery swapping system was both inefficient and dangerous if it would have been implemented with the technology existing at the time.
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.
Cooperation in the Auto Industry: GM & Toyota, VW & BYD
The economical crisis is the best moment for auto industry's ruling players to fuse their forces and/or technologies, for increasing profit on everyone's side.
HCCI Engine: No-Spark Gasoline Engine as Efficient as Diesel
If you ever had a diesel car, you know that it's more fuel efficient than the gasoline counterpart. That's because diesel engines use compression to ignite the fuel, and gasoline engines use a spark to do that. Practically, diesel engines could work without any electricity - at all.
