World’s First Smart Grid EV Charger Shown in Australia
The World’s first ever certified smart grid integrated EV charger was presented at the 10th Annual Australia and New Zealand Smart Utilities Conference last...
BMW i3 Owners Treated to Free Fast-Charging
BMW may not have been first, but the company has been working hard to increase awareness and adoption of electric vehicles, such as the...
Tesla Model S Outselling Other Luxury Vehicles
It's all good news for Tesla Motors these days. Production of the Tesla Model S is in full swing, stock prices are trending upwards...
EV Range Too Short? New Heat Pump Improves Heating & Cooling Energy Consumption
Although the range problem for electric vehicles has somehow been resolved, what do you with the heating issue? As you may know, if some...
Instead of Selling EV’s, Toyota is Instead Sharing Them
While closing down its Rav4 EV production in California, Toyota has just activated its electric vehicle sharing scheme in France.
As we earlier reported in...
IBM’s Photovoltaic Prototype Can Concentrate the Power of 2000 Suns
IBM Researchers have built a low-cost prototype solar dish that produces electricity and generates heat for desalination or cooling. IBM got the idea for...
Helsinki Wants App-Based Transportation Lines
Should you give up your privacy and personal vehicle to better society? In terms of transportation, the Helsinki government in Finland thinks so. In...
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.
NY Auto Show – Volvo V60 Plug-In Diesel Hybrid “World Green Car of the...
Currently, the only plug-in diesel hybrid that you can buy is the Volvo V60, but you can't buy it here in the US. It...
Honda's New Hybrid Car to be the Cheapest in Japan
The Nikkei business daily said the car will cost about 200,000 yen more than Honda's popular gasoline-powered Fit compact car and about 400,000 yen less than the Insight. "Lower prices are good for consumers but not for shareholders," said Yoshihiko Tabei, an analyst at Kazaka Securities.
