Hainan Airlines, China's biggest private airline company, has completed the first for the country commercial flight, powered by biofuel from restaurant left-over cooking oil.
Sure, we are all following the Swiss Solar Impulse 2, while the plane is circulating the world...
Purdue University researchers stumbled upon an even better electrode material than currently used in the lithium-ion battery, made even better because it involved recycled packing peanuts.
If you’ve ever shopped online, especially for something delicate, you’ve probably received an oversized...
We already know that electric vehicles can significantly reduce emissions, merely by virtue of the fact that they can be recharged via renewable energy, but a new study suggests that their effect on emissions is greater than their own...
It looks like Tesla has launched a Certified Pre-owned program for the Model S sedan. One of the CPO Model S buyers posted the photos of official Tesla CPO limited warranty document in the Tesla motors club discussion forum.
The best way...
Since its official discovery just over a decade ago, graphene has taken the scientific world by storm, and scientists and researchers are just scratching the surface of possible applications in the modern and future world.
Indeed, we’ve seen graphene applications...
Here at The Green Optimistic, we love solar power, and it turns out that lots of Nissan Leaf owners love solar power, too.
We already know that electric vehicle emissions, such as those associated with the Nissan Leaf, are entirely...
I'm not sure if there are a lot of fans of artificial plants, or of astroturf, but researchers from Yale are making artificial photosynthesis a reality.
As reported in Nature Communications, PhD student Staff Sheehan and his team have come...
Tesla Motors’ direct sales model has repeatedly drawn fire from the ADAs (automobile dealership associations), which has led to prohibition in a number of states.
Tesla Motors can’t sell any cars in Texas, for example, and buyers have to...
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, says that autonomous vehicles will take greater control over highway traffic in the next few years but, once they are fully capable, from garage to destination, they could even outmode human drivers altogether.
This...
You could tow with a Tesla, as much as you could tow with a Prius, but we wouldn’t recommend it.
On the other hand, you can buy a hitch receiver for a Toyota Prius as well as you can buy...
