In their efforts to bring down carbon emissions, London's city officials are looking into launching new hybrid buses, which can be charged wirelessly at bus stops. The official trial will begin next year with four buses operating between the...
One of the many reasons why I love my bike is that after using it for 15 mins or so it can miraculously get rid of the terrible guilty feeling I get when I reach for the ultimate and my most...
Plastic pollution has reached incredible levels in a space of just a decade or so. Not only that people's careless waste disposal behaviour has led to the formation of the huge Pacific Garbage Patch, but also the actual process of...
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said his company was working on something big, so we’re wondering if it has anything to do with this news report from China.
Tesla Motors, as we’ve discussed before, isn’t simply an electric vehicle company,...
Considering that a gallon of gas has the equivalent energy of 33.7 kWh of electricity, this makes it fairly easy to compare fuel economy of different vehicles, in spite of the fact they may use entirely different fuels.
Whereas convention...
The Volkswagen Golf is already one of the world’s most popular small cars, fun-to-drive, fuel-efficient, and has sold over thirty million globally. Right now is the time to turn it into an electric vehicle, and the 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf...
Looking at the activities of the general public and political and business leaders, there seems to be quite the disconnect between that and what scientists are saying about climate change and the need for action.
Ignoring climate change for just...
The state of Georgia, in the United States, thinks that electric vehicles are a good idea, and is holding out the carrot to organizations and universities to increase their use of the new technology.
While many fleets have determined that...
There has been a lot of talk about solar power, renewable energy, and energy storage over the last few years, and many might come to the wrong conclusion that such systems are neither portable nor affordable. An associate of...
The United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released, in previous years, three detailed reports analyzing the causes and effects of climate change.
While the reports in themselves are extensive and exhaustive, covering every possible aspect of...
