Tazzari Zero EV: The Electric City Sports Car Beast
Tazzari Group developed a simple but in the same time elegant electric vehicle Tazzari Zero EV. The vehicle wants to qualify as a sports-car for the city, being very light, with high torques and fully recyclable.
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.
IBM Helping Denmark Develop Country-Wide Electric Car Network
I was saying the other year that Denmark is powered mostly by its wind farms, and that the energy generated by these wind farms is in excess. They want to build an electric car network that would operate across the country and that would use the excess energy and transport it to propel people from here to there, cheaply and in an environmentally friendly fashion.
New Metal-Organic Substance Giving Better Hydrogen Tanks
UK researchers from the University of Nottingham and General Motors from Warren, Michigan, have invented a hydrogen tank material that could replace the current heavy and inefficient pressurized tubes used in today's hydrogen-powered cars.
Chery S18: High-Range Chinese Electric Car
The car is called S18 (Chinese people like coding the names, like they did to the BYD F3DM electric car), and, if the promises are kept until the launch, its price will be reasonable and the performance will also be suited for a family car.
Genepax (Japanese Water Car Company) Shut to Silence
In June last year, everyone may have heard the buzz about a japanese water car. The buzz was about Genepax, a company from Japan who had claimed that they invented a revolutionary system that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and then uses a fuel cell to recombine it and generate electricity. That electricity would have driven a car, fact that they demonstrated in front of the press at that time.
San Francisco to Become the EV Capital of the U.S.
San Francisco wants to become one of the major green cities in the world by installing electric vehicle charging station.
First Affordable Mass Produced Electric Car in the World Comes from Volkswagen
In Frankfurt - Germany, Europe's biggest car manufacturer, Volkswagen and the Japanese group Toshiba signed an agreement to develop the new VW electric cars together.
Save Fuel With the New Electricity-Producing Shock Absorbers
While some study ways of electronically controlling the shock absorbers and giving you a smooth and steady ride, and others are seeking ways to convert the heat generated by the engine into electricity, a team of undergraduate MIT students invented a shock absorber that harnesses the energy from the very bumps it hits. Several truck manufacturers and the U.S. military have given them attention, and planned to use their technology in their cars.
Your New Inexpensive Vietnamese Electric Scooter
Although electric scooters are already on the market, they are rather slow and expensive. Sufat, a Vietnamese company is planning to produce a new electric scooter, able to easily drive 55 miles per hour and accelerating from 0 to 50 mph in less than 10 seconds.
