Scientists and engineers have been trying to improve the capacity and extend the life-span of conventional batteries ever since their initial creation. We often read about various improvements and innovations that suggest a modification of either one of the...
Everyone most probably remembers the BP oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010. The disaster was tremendous. Thousands of people were involved in the cleaning process that took three months to complete.
Workers were exposed...
With regulations on carbon content in fuel becoming more and more strict, especially when it comes to airplanes, researchers and engineers around the world has entered the ultimate battle to create a carbon-neutral fuel. It is so competitive that even Google...
Rumor mills being what they are, it might come as no surprise that Tesla Motors might not actually use the Tesla Model E name.
Rumor had it that the mass-market Tesla Motors electric vehicle, which was supposed to come to...
Some have said, about climate change, that it is something “their grandkids might suffer from.”
The problem is that, since the beginning of the Industrial Age, basically mankind’s mass-application of fossil fuels, so much carbon dioxide (CO2) has been pumped...
So were the words of New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah, of India, speaking of nuclear energy at the first session of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit.
India has the world’s second-largest population, just shy of 1.2 billion, and...
Look anywhere, at politicians, journalists, ignorantes, even in some of the comments here on The Green Optimistic, and you’ll find electric vehicle opponents.
One place I wouldn’t expect have expected to see an opponent, however, comes from a recent ad...
Electric vehicles aren’t exactly the biggest sellers in the automarket, and it’s easy to see why.
First, electric vehicles, not including the $100,000 Tesla Model S, are more expensive than their conventional or even hybrid electric vehicle counterparts, as much...
The Tesla Model S is a beautiful and efficient electric vehicle, but it’s also quite expensive, which effectively keeps it out of a lot of people’s garages.
That’s understandable, since the Tesla Model S starts at ≈$64,000, after federal incentives....
While zero-emissions transportation is still a fairly new field, zero-emissions cargo transportation is practically unheard-of.
Cargo transportation, the backbone of which, at least in the United States, is the over-the-road (OTR) tractor trailer and the diesel locomotive, generates millions of...
